{"id":54087,"date":"2015-02-19T12:32:18","date_gmt":"2015-02-19T12:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=6cd4b8cb72df2d472f0e58fc6f40cddd"},"modified":"2015-02-19T12:32:18","modified_gmt":"2015-02-19T12:32:18","slug":"news-story-civilcrime-news-universal-credit-roll-outs-to-all-jobcentres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=54087","title":{"rendered":"News story: Civil\/crime news: Universal Credit roll-outs to all jobcentres"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The passporting benefit known as Universal Credit is now to be rolled out to jobcentres and local authority areas across all of England and Wales.<\/p>\n<p>Details of the timetable for roll-out can be found on the GOV.UK website \u2013 see below.<\/p>\n<p>It is important for providers in the areas affected to know because it affects the assessment of a client\u2019s eligibility for legal aid.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"what-is-universal-credit\">What is Universal Credit?<\/h3>\n<p>Universal Credit simplifies the benefits system by bringing together a range of working-age benefits into a single, streamlined payment.<\/p>\n<p>The roll-out of Universal Credit began in April 2013 and has been introduced into specific geographical areas over time.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"how-does-universal-credit-affect-legal-aid-means-testing\">How does Universal Credit affect legal aid means testing?<\/h3>\n<p>Universal Credit has been added to the list of legal aid passporting benefits.<\/p>\n<p>Summary guidance on how this affects your handling of civil and criminal cases is available in the \u2018Universal Credit and Legal Aid Means Testing\u2019 guidance document \u2013 see below.<\/p>\n<h4 id=\"further-information\">Further information<\/h4>\n<p>GOV.UK:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/universal-credit-national-expansion\">Universal Credit national expansion<\/a> \u2013 see timetable for roll-out<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/civil-legal-aid-means-testing\">Civil legal aid: means testing<\/a> \u2013 download guidance document<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/criminal-legal-aid-means-testing\">Criminal legal aid: means testing<\/a> \u2013 download guidance document<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roll-out of Universal Credit to be extended across whole of England and Wales.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54087"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}