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  • Advice for Decision Making Memos 2025

    Topics:
    • Benefits and pensions, 
    • Decision Making

    Date published: 10 February 2025

    Last updated: 11 November 2025

    These memos contain advice for decision makers on Universal Credit, Personal Independence Payment, new style Jobseeker’s Allowance and new style Employment and Support Allowance.

    Documents

    • ADM Memo 10/25 - Self-sufficiency and the Court of Appeal decision in WVAdobe PDF (172.9 KB)
    • ADM Memo 9/25 (Revised) - Habitual Residence Test, Past Presence Test and Temporary Absence Amendment Regulations 2025Adobe PDF (144.79 KB)
    • ADM Memo 8/25 - Universal Credit - Income and Capital Disregards for Miscarriage of Justice Compensation PaymentsAdobe PDF (136.8 KB)
    • ADM Memo 7/25 - Universal Credit – Temporary change on the priority order for third party deductions on Child Support Maintenance liabilityAdobe PDF (104.36 KB)
    • ADM Memo 6/25 - The Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018 (Disability Assistance) (Consequential Amendments) Order 2024Adobe PDF (140.35 KB)
    • ADM Memo 5/25 - UC, PIP, ESA & JSA (New Style) - The SS (Scotland) Act 2018 (Disability Assistance) (Conseq Amdts) Order 2025Adobe PDF (151.63 KB)
    • ADM Memo 4/25 - Income and Capital Disregards for Ministry of Defence’s LGBT Financial Recognition SchemeAdobe PDF (102.43 KB)
    • ADM Memo 3/25 - Identity of claimants and children - effect of Upper Tribunal decisionAdobe PDF (148.01 KB)
    • ADM Memo 2/25 – SS Co-ordination between the UK & Ireland, Gibraltar, Switzerland, Iceland, Liechtenstein & Norway after BrexitAdobe PDF (166.14 KB)
    • ADM Memo 1/25 - Transition to Universal Credit and State Pension Credit - Miscellaneous AmendmentsAdobe PDF (148.13 KB)
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