state pension - esa

mel_mel

Hiya I am totally confused about esa to state pension. I am in receipt of esa support group and in april received a letter because of increase. from 8th april 2019 your esa will be 194.30 a week from 6th September 2019 your esa will be 111.65 a week. this is because of age change. I was 65 in march and the date of state pension is 6th September 2019. I received no letter so did my own claim for pension in june which I don't know amount.
Now does this mean I will continue getting esa and state pension seeing as letter states amount of esa from 6th sept. It does not say esa will stop.
I have read and reread various websites and even on here have always been under the impression that esa stopped completely when state pension was paid and you had to claim pension credit and reapply for hb/ct benefit. Even the gov website states you cant get esa and state pension and can apply for pension credit. Is there anybody who can clarify this. Judging by the letter I received esa will continue just lesser amount when I get state pension and I do not have to do anything.
Thanks

calcotti

You are not entitled to ESA once you reach State Pension age. It should stop automatically but sometimes this doesn’t happen. Any ESA paid after pension age will be an overpayment and will have to be paid back so you may wish to ring ESA to make sure it is stopped.

Once you know what your State Pension will be you should check whether you may be entitled to Pension Credit. https://www.gov.uk/pension-credit

bspm1

mel_mel wrote: »

Hiya I am totally confused about esa to state pension. I am in receipt of esa support group and in april received a letter because of increase. from 8th april 2019 your esa will be 194.30 a week from 6th September 2019 your esa will be 111.65 a week. this is because of age change. I was 65 in march and the date of state pension is 6th September 2019. I received no letter so did my own claim for pension in june which I don't know amount.
Now does this mean I will continue getting esa and state pension seeing as letter states amount of esa from 6th sept. It does not say esa will stop.
I have read and reread various websites and even on here have always been under the impression that esa stopped completely when state pension was paid and you had to claim pension credit and reapply for hb/ct benefit. Even the gov website states you cant get esa and state pension and can apply for pension credit. Is there anybody who can clarify this. Judging by the letter I received esa will continue just lesser amount when I get state pension and I do not have to do anything.
Thanks

As usual DWP letters are not very well worded, I read this that from the 6th September your ESA will be £111.65 per week, what I believe that means is for that one week only then it will stop as your State Pension commences, would have been helpful to you if they had actually typed...for one week only.

mel_mel

Thank you so much for your replies. I agree about dwp letters they seem to make sure they write them to confuse people. I thought that was the case which is why after reading on here about claiming state pension I did it myself, rereading the dwp letter I thought let me check on here in case I have it wrong. Thanks again