THOUSANDS of Universal Credit claimants will be due a huge cash boost tomorrow after a new rule change.
Tomorrow, 120,000 families on Universal Credit who are eligible for childcare payments will get a £522 monthly cash injection.
However, this isn’t the case for everybody and most won’t see their payments rise until August.
From Wednesday, the amount of cash parents can claim will go up from £646 to £951 for one child, and from £1,108 to £1,630 for two.
There isn’t a minimum amount of working hours to qualify for this change, according to the DWP, but Universal Credit work coaches have been told that parents need to increase their hours by “at least a few hours more every week” to qualify for upfront cash.
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