THOUSANDS on Universal Credit have been issued an urgent warning as their benefits could be stopped under new rules.
Roughly 120,000 people will see their benefit payments affected after the Administrative Earnings Threshold (AET) increased.
Previously, households on Universal Credit had to earn the equivalent of 12 hours’ pay a week, at the National Living Wage, to not have to meet certain requirements.
These included having to look for more work or preparing for more work during the Cost of Living crisis.
Now, the 12 hour threshold has increased to 15 – meaning those who don’t meet the new rules could be sanctioned. That’s when payments are reduced for a set period or stopped altogether, but only in the worst case.
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