Universal Credit - Unlawful Deduction Policy

This judgment means that the DWP must change the deductions policy and guidance to include discretion for DWP decision makers. This means UC claimants can ask the DWP to lower the amount deducted for court fine payments if they are struggling to get by. Pending changes to the policy, welfare benefit advisors and claimants can apply the judgment when making requests for the deduction to be lowered. This will hopefully help those people already struggling on already very limited means.