Dwp Fp Funding payment on account after Universal Credit claim closed

arte

Hello there,

As many others I found myself in the position to have to apply for Universal Credit after all my income as Self Employed vanished since the lockdown started. After many exchange of messages and calls with different people looking after my claim I suddenly received a message last week that my application was closed since I had more than £16,000 in my personal account (as seen explained also on this site for people with similar situation to mine, I had told them in various occasions that the extra money were kept there for Tax payments and other business expenses, and it seemed they understood I was being honest).

Now checking my bank statement I discovered that there was a payment made on Monday which I believe it could only be from them as it identifies as from Dwp - Fp Funding and underneath it says Dwp Uc

Has anybody else had the same happening to them? Does it mean that my claim was accepted in the end? Or it's a mistake and they will ask for that payment back?

Please advice, thanks!

yksi

Log into your online Uinversal Credit account and check payments for yourself?

arte

yksi said:

Log into your online Uinversal Credit account and check payments for yourself?

Thanks! I didn't think to check in my statement section of the UC account and yes that payment is in there.

I still don't understand what happened though since they told me that my claim was closed and I wasn't elegible for UC cos of my savings exceeding £16,000. Could it be that two different departments were following my claim and the person who closed it wasn't aware that my claim had already been accepted or viceversa?