advice re uc

silentwolf

can i ask advice for my daughter shes my carer too she changed to universal credit advised my job centre on

she recieves carers too she signed off jsa 2 weeks agoand got paid 115 for money they owed her as paid in arrears on monday 27th september
round about 14th in september that week she signed on uc adviced to do so by jsa and was told she be paid round about 4th october but she gone to her account and said this month she entitled to 0 pound

obviously this first payment so need get some insight for this they said hse been paid 129 of jsa after she claimed which under stand but she was paid 115

and also they take off 274 month cos she claims carers but my calculations is 64.40 week is not 274 month she gives me 25 week which leaving her to live on 39 week for herself

poppy12345

silentwolf wrote: »

can i ask advice for my daughter shes my carer too she changed to universal credit advised my job centre on

she recieves carers too she signed off jsa 2 weeks agoand got paid 115 for money they owed her as paid in arrears on monday 27th september
round about 14th in september that week she signed on uc adviced to do so by jsa and was told she be paid round about 4th october but she gone to her account and said this month she entitled to 0 pound

obviously this first payment so need get some insight for this they said hse been paid 129 of jsa after she claimed which under stand but she was paid 115

and also they take off 274 month cos she claims carers but my calculations is 64.40 week is not 274 month she gives me 25 week which leaving her to live on 39 week for herself

It takes approximately 5 weeks for the first payment of UC, as the claim was only made "around" 14th Sept then she wouldn't receive payment yet.


Any JSA payments she would have received after starting the UC claim will be deducted from her UC. Carers allowance is £64.30 per week yes but UC is paid monthly, so £274 per month taken from her UC for the Carers allowance, is correct. A carers element of UC should then be added to her UC and this payment is £156.45 per month. The fact that she gives you £25 per week will make no difference to the amount of money she can claim.



She should put all her details into a benefits calculator and it will tell her how much she can claim.

calcotti

I would expect UC reduction for Carer's Allowance to be £279.93/month (£64.60/week x 52 weeks / 12 months).

Ineededaname

She hasn't declared herself as a carer on her UC claim OR her caring activity has not yet been verified by UC. She should phone the UC number.

huckster

Some of the dates in original post seem wrong.

As has been said, your daughter has not had the caring activity verified by Universal Credit. The UC carers element pays about £156 per assessment period. If this was added, it would not make much difference for the first month on UC, because of the JSA overlap deducted and the carers allowance deduction. Someone will no doubt calculate how much would be due with the carers element added.