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Chapter 1
Transitional protection
[ch 1: page 14]Transitional protection is an extra amount to top up the UC award to ensure that people are not worse off when they move over to the new benefit. However, this is only available for people who have no change in their circumstances that would trigger a move to UC and are therefore moved onto UC by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) by way of a “managed migration”.