they are treated as having claimed on time and can still get transitional protection in their Universal Credit award." This transitional protection is designed to make up for any shortfall if ...

This amount is referred to as the indicative Universal Credit award. They further elaborated: "At this point, the ...

Instead, they provide a mechanism for the DWP to add a temporary additional element to the Universal Credit award to ease the transition to the new benefit in most cases where someone would be ...