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Employment and Support Allowance
rosewalk
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A friend is now appealing the decision not to award her Employment and Support Allowance. In order to cover her rent she had to apply for Universal Credit. She was on Income Related ESA but failed her last Work Capability Assessment. If her appeal is successful and she is placed in the Support Group I assume that she will be paid the support component from the date when her ESA stopped.. What if anything will be the impact on her Universal Credit ? Will she be treated as if she were in the Support Group when she started her UC claim and if so will she receive any backdated payments?
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Yes to both your questions. The ESA will be paid from the date it stopped to the date the UC claim started. If placed in Support Group will then be entitled to the LCWRA element in her UC from the start of the UC claim - may need to ask for this to be done.Information I post is for England unless otherwise stated. Some rules may be different in other parts of UK.0
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