Harshness of uc

calcotti

FredandWilma - just wanted to say I’m pleased to hear that you have at least got a decision. My understanding is that the statement confirming the payment amount is normally issued one week in advance of the payment date.

Chris1974

Please help! So if I was on just carer’s allowance for the last 11 years what would my response be to this question on U/C?
Confirm previous earnings from work
In the 12 months before you claimed Universal Credit, were there any gaps in your employment?

Many Thanks
Chris

micky2phones

poppy12345 wrote: »

Paragraphs help, far too difficult for me to read that way....

Hi, me too

Rainbowgirl84

Thread is four months old and OP hasn't logged in since starting it.

p00hsticks

Chris1974 wrote: »

Please help! So if I was on just carer’s allowance for the last 11 years what would my response be to this question on U/C?
Confirm previous earnings from work
In the 12 months before you claimed Universal Credit, were there any gaps in your employment?

Many Thanks
Chris

Chris, sorry I can't answer your query. but you've posted on the end of a months old thread and so your question is likely to get missed (the two posters following have olny noticed the original posts and missed yours).



You are better off starting a new thread of your own with the query - you should see a 'new thread' button towars the top left of the 'benefits; board page that you click on.

huckster

Chris1974 wrote: »

Please help! So if I was on just carer’s allowance for the last 11 years what would my response be to this question on U/C?
Confirm previous earnings from work
In the 12 months before you claimed Universal Credit, were there any gaps in your employment?

Many Thanks
Chris

If you were not employed in last 12 months the answer is yes. Then you don't have any employment earnings to enter.

sammyjammy

fredandwilma wrote: »

Thanks calcotti.

I have a fresh inkling today and i fear it's going to be many more weeks even months, before this is sorted. I should have had my award confirmed. Instead i've received a message in my uc journal saying i'm still in receipt of Esa, despite the fact the DWP themselves sent me a letter confirming my Esa ended when i claimed UC.

The end of my ESA also prompted a P45 from HMRC, confirming the end of my ESA.

I suspect this ESA P45 has now led to the investigation of my employment in the last 12 months, via my UC journal. I now have 15 days to respond with a breakdown of my earnings / employment in the last 12 months. Computer systems don't have brains, they are programmed to draw one conclusion. This person has a P45 = they've been working.

The trouble with online journals doesn't give you the option to say you know fine well i haven't worked. Well, that's what i'd like to say.

Instead, I left a polite(ish) message for my work coach, who in turn, hasn't responded.

The trouble with benefit delivery centre's is - computers aren't human beings, nor do human beings or computers, for that matter, communicate to other departments within a benefit delivery centre.

As i can't answer employment questions in my UC journal, for employment i haven't had, I suspect it's now going to take months rather than weeks, before i receive an UC award.

A prime example of how when the DWP get it wrong, it goes catastrophically wrong.

I'll give it a week, and then it's time to start rattling some cages, paticularly EMV. Should be back from holiday soon?

I can't live on fresh air, forever.

Your P45 has come from DWP not HMRC.

calcotti

sammyjammy wrote: »

Your P45 has come from DWP not HMRC.

Your response is to a 3 month old post.