End your tax credits
What happens next
If your details are incorrect you鈥檒l have to phone HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) within 30 days. HMRC will correct your details and tell you what happens next.
If you need to report your self-employed income, you鈥檒l need to send your 鈥榓ward declaration鈥� to HMRC.
You will not have to do anything else if the details on your award review are correct or you if do not have to report any employed or self-employed income.
皇冠体育appre can be a gap between when you stop getting tax credits and when your Universal Credits payments start.
You may be able to get an advance on your first Universal Credit payment if:
- you鈥檝e recently been receiving another benefit
- you鈥檙e in urgent financial need
Check with your work coach if this applies to you.
If you鈥檙e getting income from self-employment
You need to report your earnings every month when you get Universal Credit. You鈥檒l be sent a 鈥榮tatement of earnings鈥� form to do this.
If you鈥檙e claiming any other benefits
Universal Credit will replace:
- income-based Jobseeker鈥檚 Allowance
- Housing Benefit
- income-related Employment and Support Allowance
- Income Support
Once you鈥檝e claimed Universal Credit, these benefits will stop and you鈥檒l start getting Universal Credit instead.
You鈥檒l continue to get any other benefits.