Source · Select Committees · Public Accounts Committee
Recommendation 31
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Department acknowledges claimant difficulty understanding transitional protection, developing guidance with stakeholders.
Conclusion
We asked the Department what it was doing to help vulnerable individuals understand the transitional protection arrangements. The Department told us that during its testing phase it had found that claimants struggled to understand how transitional protection worked – it was a simple concept but a complex policy to explain. It said that stakeholders had asked if it could produce a guide on complex cases and it had worked with them to do that. It was now trying to turn the guide into a publication that non-welfare advice experts could understand.64
Government Response
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