Universal Credit Minimum Income Floor Coronavirus
The amount of universal credit you ll get will be based on your actual earnings.
Universal credit minimum income floor coronavirus. To receive our covid 19 newsletter in. They are in addition to those in the employment and support allowance and universal credit coronavirus disease regulations 2020 s i. A self employed worker aged 25 working full time would previously be assumed to be earning at least about 1 310 mth. Coronavirus changes to the minimum income floor.
Under regulation 2 the secretary of state has the discretion to apply a number of measures in relation to the minimum income floor mif which applies to self employed claimants in universal credit. Now without the minimum income floor in place you can earn less than this and the amount of universal credit you get will be boosted. The minimum income floor won t be used to work out how much you ll get. The mif is an assumed level of earnings.
This amount is called the minimum income floor. Since 30 march 2020 the way your universal credit payment is worked out has changed because of coronavirus covid 19. Universal credit includes a minimum income floor mif if you are gainfully self employed and your business has been running for more than 12 months. Payments are no longer calculated using an assumed level of earnings called.
This means it can be claimed by any self employed people out of work at a rate. If you earn less than the minimum income floor universal credit will not make. Your work coach can remove or reduce your minimum income floor. You will be informed before the minimum income floor is reinstated for you.
This change applies to all universal credit claimants. Minimum income floor suspended for coronavirus victims budget 2020 universal credit has seen a radical shake up in the new budget as announced by rishi sunak yesterday. Additionally the minimum income floor for universal credit has been suspended for anyone impacted by coronavirus. You should check if you can claim universal credit before applying.