The latest draft regulations for Universal Credit released in December 2012 confirm that there will be large cuts for the severely disabled under Universal Credit. There will be no equivalent of the Severe Disability Premium (worth £58.20 at present). Also claimants who are recognised as both sick and a carer by the present system are another group who will lose out as the carers element of Universal Credit can not be paid at the same time as the 2 sickness elements (the LCWA and the LCWRA elements).
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