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📣 With one week to go until eligibility for this year’s #WinterFuelPayment (WFP) ends, please do a final push with any pension age clients, family or friends you think may be entitled to claim #PensionCredit (PC).   Numbers of people claiming PC have improved since the WFP changes were announced in July, with applications up by 145%, but over 700,000 are still deemed to be eligible but not claiming.   Our benefits calculator will quickly help people check all the benefits they may be entitled to, including highlightling the Winter Fuel Payment deadline with the panel below.   👉 Try it: https://lnkd.in/gVKzkPu

If you're following the Managed Migration of Universal Credit you will want to read Child Poverty Action Group UK's latest 'Beneath the trends' report - a detailed look at the issues facing claimants going through managed migration It's the final report in CPAG's series closely monitoring how the migration has been going over the past few years. As usual, it provides a sobering look at the issues, as well as listing some sensible recommendations. This casestudy stood out for us at entitledto, as we head into the expanding migration of ESA claimants from February next year: "The prospect of moving to UC triggered suicidal thoughts in the claimant. Fearing that she would soon lose all her income, she bought a tent and some potatoes so she and her daughter could survive if they became homeless." Read the report: https://lnkd.in/exHEZKhJ

📰 We are proud to announce that entitledto has recently become an employee-owned company. 👉 Read our latest blog to find out why we have moved from a privately owned business to an Employee Ownership Trust: https://lnkd.in/eeNMq8Qt

Good luck to our organisational clients who are nominated in the Employment Related Services Association (ERSA) awards in a range of categories this evening 🤞 Ingeus Jobs 22 One Parent Families Scotland Reed in Partnership RNIB Sefton@Work Waythrough Whitehead-Ross Education West Lancashire Borough Council

It's been a great start to the Employment Related Services Association (ERSA) Conference and Awards this morning, with the keynote speech from the Minister for Employment, Alison McGovern MP. We're now into the first panel discussion about Locally Led Employment Support with many more interesting events coming up. Do come and say hi to Phil and Liza if you're here!

Most of entitledto has been on a team social this afternoon. Our cooking skills were tested as we created a six course meal to share at the wonderful Migrateful cookery school in London. Even if we do say so ourselves, the food was delicious, mostly thanks to our teacher Meriam and all the staff at Migrateful. Such a super, social way to end the week!

  This Fuel Poverty Awareness Day, it’s the perfect time to remind people they could still receive the £200/£300 Winter Fuel Payment this winter. Payments to eligible households started on Monday so will be in at least 1.3 million bank accounts soon, but around 760,000 still need to claim. 📣 Anyone entitled to Pension Credit will get the Winter Fuel Payment (and maybe other benefits too) if they claim before 21 December 📣 Check now: https://lnkd.in/dfEgAz2 or share with others #FuelPovertyAwarenessDay 

📢 The latest ‘Move to Universal Credit’ statistics were released by the DWP this morning. We’re still looking into the detail in Stat Explore but, overall, we’re pleased to see they show a much greater success rate for people moving onto UC from DWP benefits than from tax credits (1). 📊 As previous statistics have shown, a third of households claiming tax credits only (with no other means-tested benefit) have failed to move on to UC (we call this the ‘close rate’). In contrast, the ‘close rate’ for people claiming tax credits with a means-tested benefit is 5%, with 95% successfully moving onto UC. 📊 It's more difficult to draw conclusions about people moving onto UC from DWP benefits (without any tax credits) as this stage of the managed migration process is only now getting into full swing. The best data relates to people who received a managed migration notice more than four months ago, who have therefore been all the way through the process, so numbers are still small. 📊 However, so far, the overall close rate for this group is 4%, which is in line with DWP’s planning assumption. This rate varies a little between different benefits, with a lower close rate when Housing Benefit is being claimed and a higher close rate where there is no Housing Benefit. 📊 It's still too early to tell what is going on with moving Employment and Support Allowance claimants to UC, as only 680 people have been all the way through the process. The close rate so far for this group is 5%, but we’ll have to wait for more data to really tell. 🤔 With the most vulnerable groups any interruption in a benefit claim is of course worrying. We will therefore be looking into how we can support our organisational clients manage the final stages of the Move to UC process now the new government has stated it will stick to the current migration timetable. -- (1) We used data from the 'MtUC Individuals 8 - Overall claim vs no claim by legacy benefit' table from Stat Explore in the post above.

It's a beautiful morning in Leeds to attend Money Advice Liaison Group Ltd conference. If you're here please come and say hello. #malgconf2024

We're looking forward to attending the Money Advice Liaison Group Ltd conference this week. If you're attending please pop along to our stand to say hello to us. #malgconf2024