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<p>Our draft Regulations will ensure that eligible claimants in receipt of Severe
Disability Premium are only moved to Universal Credit as part of a managed migration
process, and through that process will see their payments protected. We are spending
over £3 billion on Transitional Protections for 1.1 million households, to ensure
that no one loses out at the point of transition. We have also made provision for
those eligible claimants who have already naturally migrated to Universal Credit to
be considered for Severe Disability Premium transitional payments. These will be made
as on-going monthly payments and an additional lump-sum to cover the period since
they moved to Universal Credit.</p><p> </p><p>Published data shows that of the 42,000
people who were on ESA and started a claim on Universal Credit (Full Service) within
one month of closing their ESA claim between May 2015 and February 2018, 4,000 were
in receipt of the Severe Disability Premium.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p>
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