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Please help, UC and PIP, will moving in with my partner cut allowance?

purple_person
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Hi everyone,
I'm new here so not sure if this is the right place to ask but I'm desperate to know whether my UC will get reduced or not.
At the moment, I get PIP at the standard allowances for my disability. I get UC under the 'disability element', but I haven't been placed in a group yet (LCW or LCWRA), and so I'm in the 'assessment' group and get the standard monthly allowance of about £340.
My partner is currently earning about £2400 a month, and we're going to be moving in together in the next few weeks. What I'm concerned over is whether his income affects me at all? I know it won't affect the PIP but I don't completely understand how it affects UC. We're in a bit of a stressful situation whereby we need to be moved out within about 3 weeks from now, and the only suitable places near us right now to rent, are around £800. Suitable because he can't be too far of a drive from work. Basically, with the money I'm currently getting, plus his income, I worked out that we'd be okay and we'd be able to afford somewhere that much, that being outgoings all considered, but if my UC is decreased I'm not sure if we'd be able to, and like I said we kinda need to know because of the fact we need to move ASAP essentially.
I understand if no-one here is able to answer my question, but I thought I'd give it a shot.
Thanks in advance, and have a nice day
I'm new here so not sure if this is the right place to ask but I'm desperate to know whether my UC will get reduced or not.
At the moment, I get PIP at the standard allowances for my disability. I get UC under the 'disability element', but I haven't been placed in a group yet (LCW or LCWRA), and so I'm in the 'assessment' group and get the standard monthly allowance of about £340.
My partner is currently earning about £2400 a month, and we're going to be moving in together in the next few weeks. What I'm concerned over is whether his income affects me at all? I know it won't affect the PIP but I don't completely understand how it affects UC. We're in a bit of a stressful situation whereby we need to be moved out within about 3 weeks from now, and the only suitable places near us right now to rent, are around £800. Suitable because he can't be too far of a drive from work. Basically, with the money I'm currently getting, plus his income, I worked out that we'd be okay and we'd be able to afford somewhere that much, that being outgoings all considered, but if my UC is decreased I'm not sure if we'd be able to, and like I said we kinda need to know because of the fact we need to move ASAP essentially.
I understand if no-one here is able to answer my question, but I thought I'd give it a shot.
Thanks in advance, and have a nice day

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You would be assessed as a couple for Universal Credit with his income being taken into consideration.0
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Your PIP is not affected.
For UC you need to tell DWP and the UC becomes a joint claim. Entitlement then depends on your joint income and savings, Try using a benefit calculator to workout what you will get https://www.gov.uk/benefits-calculators. For the housing element the maximum help you can get is restricted to the one bedroom (assuming just the 2 of You) LHA rate for your area https://lha-direct.voa.gov.uk/
If there will be little or no UC entitlement you may be able to claim new style ESA, which is not means tested, provided you have a full NI record from April 2017 to March 2019.Information I post is for England unless otherwise stated. Some rules may be different in other parts of UK.1
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