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<p>Comprehensive guidance is available to all staff and is very clear when a claim
should be closed. A claim may close for various reasons including an increase in income.</p><p>
</p><p>Universal Credit is an in and out of work benefit to encourage claimants to
move into employment and increase their earnings.</p><p> </p><p>Re-claims provides
a simple route back onto Universal Credit for claimants who have a short break in
entitlement, for example, entering temporary work. Re-claims will allow most claimants
who return to Universal Credit within six assessment periods of their previous award
ending, to retain their previous Universal Credit assessment period and payment dates,
as long as they continue to meet the basic conditions of entitlement.</p>
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