Got the sack today

jjcjjcjjc

I got the sack today and tomorrow will have to claim universal credit (both dole and housing benefit element to pay rent). However I'm still due a final weeks wages next week + two weeks pay in lieu of notice so what happens to that money, should I delay claiming for a week till I've got that money or claim straight away and let dad take that money off. It's just I'm sure I've read on internet today that earnings received during the 7 day waiting period are ignored - PLEASE HELP

Rubyroobs

If you start a UC claim tomorrow then any final wages/ holiday pay etc will fall in your first monthly assessment period and will reduce your Uc so you may not actually get any UC. It really depends on what your Uc award will be and what wages will be. It may be best to wait until final wages paid but would depend on amounts.

WhenIam64

How long had you worked for the company? Were you terminated for misconduct, or for capability, or for redundancy or for the end of a contract?

It will shape how you approach UC.

[Deleted User]

"and let dad take that money off"...explain?

jjcjjcjjc

Sorry I meant let DSS take off the money

jjcjjcjjc

I'm sorry I meant let DSS take off the money

poppy12345

WhenIam64 wrote: »

How long had you worked for the company? Were you terminated for misconduct, or for capability, or for redundancy or for the end of a contract?

It will shape how you approach UC.

What was the reason why you were sacked? Please answer the above questions.

TELLIT01

Make you claim at the earliest opportunity and let DWP decide what is or is not taken into account against your first UC payment. Delaying the claim will only further delay the date of your first payment.

calcotti

TELLIT01 wrote: »

Make you claim at the earliest opportunity and let DWP decide what is or is not taken into account against your first UC payment. Delaying the claim will only further delay the date of your first payment.

With UC that isn't necessarily the best advice. If the claimant is due final earnings in one week time but they claim now the result will be that these earnings are taken into account when calculating the first UC payment in 5 weeks time and it may be a nil payment. They will therefore have to wait until the following month for their first actual payment (a nine and a half week wait). If they delay the claim by 8 days so that the final earnings arrive before the date of claim then the first assessment payment will have no earnings taken into account and will be a full UC payment (six weeks from today).

Deciding what is best depends on having an idea of what the UC entitlement will be and how much the final earning payment will be.

TELLIT01

Thanks for that calcotti. On legacy benefits the advice was always to get the claim in a.s.a.p. Monthly payments with UC obviously put things in a different light.

jjcjjcjjc

I've now found out that Universal Credit treat all severance wages (except redundancy payments) as any other earnings and deduct 63 percent of any final wages that one receives AFTER claiming Universal Credit, has anyone else heard this??