Will may parents income affect Universal Credit?

Batman_100

Hi

I've just been told by my employer that I'm going to be made redundant in 6 weeks time

I'm going to apply for as many jobs as possible between now and then, but I've done some basic research to see what my options would be if I had to go on the dole. I live in an area where Universal Credit has already been rolled out for single new claimants (that's me), so I understand things will work differently to last time I was out of work when I claimed income based JSA.

Because I'm living with my parents at the moment, will their income be taken into consideration when the calculate how much UC I'm entitled to? I know this wasn't the case with JSA, but I can't find anything on the gov.uk website on how they calculate UC. I'm asking because my dad earns £40,000+ per year, so if they did take that into consideration, I'd imagine I'd get nothing at all.

Thanks in advance for any advice.

HappyMJ

No you're not dependant on them any more.

Batman_100

HappyMJ wrote: »

No you're not dependant on them any more.

Thank you.

I was only wondering because I know for some benefits they take household income into consideration and I wasn't sure how they define a household.

Also, is UC for a single unemployed person with no housing costs paid at the same rate as income based JSA, with the same level of deductions for having savings between £6k & £16k?

HappyMJ

Batman_100 wrote: »

Thank you.

I was only wondering because I know for some benefits they take household income into consideration and I wasn't sure how they define a household.

Also, is UC for a single unemployed person with no housing costs paid at the same rate as income based JSA, with the same level of deductions for having savings between £6k & £16k?

You are a household of one.

Your parents are a separate household.

You might all live under the same roof but you are separate households.

UC is the same rate as income based JSA.

Batman_100

HappyMJ wrote: »

You are a household of one.

Your parents are a separate household.

You might all live under the same roof but you are separate households.

UC is the same rate as income based JSA.

Thanks, that's saved me a lot of worrying.

When_the_going_gets_tough

But if you have paid enough in ni contributions I think you can still make a claim for Cjsa which continues to operate outside uc.