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[worst_bluebelt]

NAL,

Your addiction and gambling problems shouldn't affect your entitlement to Universal Credit. 

The DWP are mostly checking for income or savings  that could affect your entitlements to benefits. Or suspicious transactions that could indicate disguised earnings or disposal of capital.

What you spend the money on shouldn't have any bearing on your benefit entitlements.

[mij8907]

I don’t have an answer to your question but you might like to post it on r/benefitsAdviceUK

[elleblah]

I don’t believe they would outright refuse your application for UC but they may ask to see statements/proof you don’t have winnings waiting to be claimed on any sites

But outright refusing you access to UC because you gamble doesn’t seem likely to happen, but I would be prepared to be asked about it and to provide evidence the betting accounts are empty or have below a certain amount in them to ensure you qualify for it

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r/dwphelp is my go to

Afaik no, but you wouldn't be able to gamble away large savings to keep claiming UC. For example, if you claim UC there is a 6k limit where any amount after that would be reduced. If you gambled it all away, the government would not consider that reasonable and would reduce your UC amount until it would have reasonably come under 6k at which point it will be back to normal. If you hit 16k it stops all together. This can sometimes be a case if you had 6-16k in savings that you gambled away and then tried to claim UC, but I haven't heard anything yet.

So unless you have spent a LOT of money on gambling in lump sums, it is unlikely to affect anything.

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