Do I continue to claim UC after assessment said I was LCWRA?

Hi.
After my telephone assessment a few weeks ago, I received a message in my journal stating
"Following your Work Capability Assessment, we have decided that you have limited capability for work and work-related activity.

This has come as a great relief as I have spent the past year on UC, handing in fit notes and having to deal with horrible work coaches.

My question is this though, do I now have to apply for another benefit?
I see people talk about ESA and PIP, but I'm just confused as heck with it all.
Or is it all done automatically by the people who handled my UC?

I am single, no partner, and have been unemployed and on UC for about a year now.

If anyone can help me I would very much appreciate it.

Thank you very much.

bm979

Congratulations on the LCWRA award, well done.

The DWP are not going to claim any other benefits on your behalf, you need to do it yourself.

You can claim New Style ESA providing you have at least 50 weeks of NI Contributions and/or Credits in both of the Tax Years 2019-20 and 2020-21. Any NS ESA will be deducted from your UC so I would not expect you to be better off unless you have a lot of deductions from your UC payments, otherwise, the only advantage is the NS ESA pays Class 1 NI Credits which can be used for future NS ESA claims whereas UC pays Class 3 Credits which can only be used for a full State Pension.

PIP is a separate benefit intended to help those with disabilities with the additional costs that those disabilities often cause. There's a guide to PIP in the Guides section of the site./

Gordon