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6 years 7 months ago #197238 by Redwood
What will it mean when my PIP & ESA become UC? was created by Redwood
Dear All,
I successfully got into the ESA Support Group and got awarded higher PIP this year. I also get full housing benefit & council tax reduction for a single person. It's been a long battle but couldn't have done it without this site.
Now that the dust has settle just a little I feel I need to inform myself about what I may face when UC comes into effect. I can't make head nor tale of what's online and before I try and book in with my CAB, wondering if there is any information available here that can give me ea general overview of what if anything I will lose when HB & ESA become UC. How do I begin to understand this and how do I find out when it will roll out in my area. I am thinking of moving to Bristol but am a bit worried it will roll out there before where I am in Wiltshire.
Many thanks for your kind advice and all you do here on B&W.
Sincere thanks,
Redwood
I successfully got into the ESA Support Group and got awarded higher PIP this year. I also get full housing benefit & council tax reduction for a single person. It's been a long battle but couldn't have done it without this site.
Now that the dust has settle just a little I feel I need to inform myself about what I may face when UC comes into effect. I can't make head nor tale of what's online and before I try and book in with my CAB, wondering if there is any information available here that can give me ea general overview of what if anything I will lose when HB & ESA become UC. How do I begin to understand this and how do I find out when it will roll out in my area. I am thinking of moving to Bristol but am a bit worried it will roll out there before where I am in Wiltshire.
Many thanks for your kind advice and all you do here on B&W.
Sincere thanks,
Redwood
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6 years 7 months ago #197246 by Gordon
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Replied by Gordon on topic What will it mean when my PIP & ESA become UC?
Redwood
We're not providing general information on UC, only how it impacts on ESA, I can give you a basic understanding but if yo want more then you will have to look at sites such as the CAB.
The first thing to understand is that nobody is being transferred to UC at the moment with one exception, this won't happen for several years at least.
The exception is when a claimant needs to meet a new claim for one of the benefits that comes the UC umbrella, so if you moved from your current location to Bristol then you will come under a new Local Authority and this will require a new claim for HB and consequently a claim for UC, if you are receiving any ESA(IR) then this would also be moved across to UC.
UC is paid as a single payment every month, so this will be a change from your current situation.
UC is paid to the household so if you have a partner then they will also be claiming UC, this is different from ESA where a partner is treated as passive, except for the occasional WFI.
UC is intended to be an online benefit and it is intended for all contact to be done via the claimants journal, there are telephone numbers that can be rung, but most advice will be to go back to their journal.
You can find out timescales for the rollout on the following
ucpostcode.entitledto.co.uk/ucdate
Gordon
We're not providing general information on UC, only how it impacts on ESA, I can give you a basic understanding but if yo want more then you will have to look at sites such as the CAB.
The first thing to understand is that nobody is being transferred to UC at the moment with one exception, this won't happen for several years at least.
The exception is when a claimant needs to meet a new claim for one of the benefits that comes the UC umbrella, so if you moved from your current location to Bristol then you will come under a new Local Authority and this will require a new claim for HB and consequently a claim for UC, if you are receiving any ESA(IR) then this would also be moved across to UC.
UC is paid as a single payment every month, so this will be a change from your current situation.
UC is paid to the household so if you have a partner then they will also be claiming UC, this is different from ESA where a partner is treated as passive, except for the occasional WFI.
UC is intended to be an online benefit and it is intended for all contact to be done via the claimants journal, there are telephone numbers that can be rung, but most advice will be to go back to their journal.
You can find out timescales for the rollout on the following
ucpostcode.entitledto.co.uk/ucdate
Gordon
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6 years 7 months ago #197304 by penthesili
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that's frightening. My area could be as early as July 2018. Are there any organisations that help disabled people navigate this, my local council is useless at everything?
Cheers, Pen.
Cheers, Pen.
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6 years 7 months ago #197306 by Gordon
Local Welfare Rights organisations will be trained in any issues that claimants might have.
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penthesili wrote: that's frightening. My area could be as early as July 2018. Are there any organisations that help disabled people navigate this, my local council is useless at everything?
Cheers, Pen.
Local Welfare Rights organisations will be trained in any issues that claimants might have.
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6 years 7 months ago #197308 by penthesili
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that's the problem, there aren't any within the borough, and no organisation from another area will take people not inside their own borders.
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6 years 7 months ago #197309 by Gordon
I can't really offer any advice, until the DWP actually start moving existing claimants across to UC there is no way to know what problems , if any, there will be.
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penthesili wrote: that's the problem, there aren't any within the borough, and no organisation from another area will take people not inside their own borders.
I can't really offer any advice, until the DWP actually start moving existing claimants across to UC there is no way to know what problems , if any, there will be.
Gordon
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