In receipt of ESA Support & PIP - no other benefit

Bro 67 wrote: Only on ESA Support & PIP , no housing benefit or any other benefit . Does this mean not being affected by Universal Credit ? If there is a move to Universal Credit - is it relatively seemless ?

Nobody at this time is being moved to Universal Credit unless they have to make a new claim for one of the benefits that come under UC.

At some time in the future, at least a year and possibly a lot longer, Income Related ESA claims will be migrated to UC, we do not know how this will be done at the moment, a consultation process is currently being done and I would not expect the result to be made available until the end of the year.

At this time it unclear as to what will happen to Contribution Based claimants, there are good reasons for them to be migrated to New Style ESA, the replacement for ESA(CB) but no statement has been made.

Gordon

Bro 67 wrote: ESA is in the Support Group

The Support Group is the award, not the type of ESA you are receiving, do your payments include the Disability Income Guarantee? If they do then you are receiving ESA(IR) at least in part.

Gordon