Increased Numbers of claimants on on UC-175,000
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Free School Meals under UC '...consultation on eligibility for free school meals under Universal Credit later in 2016, with a view to having the necessary regulations in place for the end of the year, when the roll out of the full Universal Credit Service to a broader claimant base will be well under way.
While this work is on-going, any child whose parent or guardian is receiving Universal Credit will continue to be entitled to free school meals.'
1st caselaw on UC- confirms that the income received, not earned, needs to be used to calculate UC during any assessment period.
para 11.'...question is whether the money in question was received during the assessment period. Despite the claimant’s attempts to argue otherwise, it clearly was. It was money received in that period, even if it was earned earlier. As such, it was part of the claimant’s earned income (regulation 54(1)). It does not matter that the employment from which it was derived had ceased to exist by the time of payment. '
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