UC help

marie62029

hi sorry I've not been on as I've not been feeling well but thank you for your advice 11krage I will get on with it this week and poppy12345 I've checked and yeah it was defo LCWRA

marie62029

Hello,
Sorry its been a while since my last post but just to update you what has been going on. i waited until my October payment to see what I received and to see if the LCWRA had been added to my statement which it finally had been but then that got me thinking that it had only been awarded from June 2019 instead of 2018 as that's when i started to send fit notes in, I have not received any back payment either so I contacted them and asked what start date they had and it was as I thought June 2019 and so I wrote in my journal to ask them to look at my account to see why they had put 2019 and the reply I got was you don't need to supply fit notes anymore.
I then asked 5 or 6 more questions and the responses I got were nothing to do with the questions asked and yesterday I sent another message hoping to get someone different but now no one is replying to me I think they just choose went they want to reply.
I have now been to cab and they are gonna help me as UC have said I need to do a mandatory reconsideration for them to look at the decision even though this is there mistake and also the person I saw at cab told me that they will only backdate to when I had my assessment but I thought it was when you first handed a fit note in? could someone clarify that for me.
Thank you.

Spoonie_Turtle

LWCRA is payable from the fourth month (or full AP?) after you started handing fit notes in.

If you had any income during that time they also need to look at how much they paid you, because the work allowance is applied from the first full AP when you started handing in fit notes.

calcotti

They should backdate to the fourth complete assessment period after you first handed in a Fit Note. So if you handed in a Fit Note at the start of your claim you should get LCWRA from your fourth assessment period.

In general I think you should have been referred for a WCA 29 days after you first submitted a Fit Note and the WCA completed during the three month from submitting the Fit Note. See http://data.parliament.uk/DepositedPapers/Files/DEP2019-0980/57._Health_conditions_and_disabilities__day_1_to_day_29_v11.0.pdf which states
At day 29, claimants with current medical evidence will be referred for a Work Capability Assessment if they have not already been referred.

An exception to this would be if you had earnings over 16 x NMW per week, which would exclude you from being referred for a WCA unless you were receiving a qualifying disability benefit.

marie62029

Thank you to you both for your help but unfortunately calcotti the link you have posted won't work for me

calcotti

marie62029 wrote: »

Thank you to you both for your help but unfortunately calcotti the link you have posted won't work for me

Sorry, won’t work for me either. Try this this page https://www.rightsnet.org.uk/universal-credit-full-service-guidance
Navigate down to Health conditions and disabilities day 1 to day 29

marie62029

Thank you I'll take a look at that now

marie62029

Someone else has since looked at my claim and admitted what I was told was wrong and they got the date wrong so they have now amended it and I don't need to do the MR which I'm thankful for as it was all getting on top of me.
They have backdated to the 4th month after I claimed in 2018, its taken a while but just glad its all sorted now and thank you to everyone for your help and advice.

calcotti

Well done for persisting.

11krage

Well done. Unfortunately I have seen that happen before. It's a simple mistype when the decision maker types in the start date as they need to manually type it in. Poor guy must've either assumed it must be 2019 as that's the year they're in when they typed it, or their fingers just got confused.