UC as Top-Up to Contributions Based ESA (Support Group)

Hi Charlie

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Your question is outside the remit of the forum.

I would advise you to seek help from your local Welfare Rights Organisation, who will then be able to take all your circumstances into consideration; you can find your local Welfare Rights Organisation to help you with advice by clicking on the link below and putting in your post code, it will then come up with a MAP with a list of agencies. advicelocal.uk

Unfortunately if you are not already in receipt of housing benefit or child tax credits then you will not be able to claim them, you will have to apply for UC to get the housing element and the child element

Gary

Hi Charlie

It's not that we do not care, this forum is for members claiming disability benefits, we have guides to help members with these benefits.

We do not give advice on Child Tax Credits or Housing Benefit, if you need advice on these subjects then we would advice you to seek help from your local welfare rights organisation, which is what I did, I also added a link so you could find your local welfare rights organisation. You can also contact Shelter for housing advice; england.shelter.org.uk/housing_advice

I also informed you that unless you are in receipt of housing benefit and child tax credits, then you will not be able to make a new claim, you will have to apply for Universal Credit.

Gary

Thank you denby

We do get used to it, unfortunately we can only answer questions within the remit of the forum, quite often we can try and link questions to other organisations or seek advice from their local welfare rights organisation who can take all their circumstances into consideration.

We cannot give advice as we do not know all the circumstances, we can only give information, which can be hard as we do feel the pain in some of the posts from forum members who are struggling and would love to be more hands on and take control but then that would lead to giving advice which unfortunately we are not allowed to do.

Gary