UC migration- 2 week run on payment

Beckz1205

I received my migration notice to migrate from IR ESA (wrag) to UC which I completed on 26th March 2025. I just wanted to know if I will be receiving the 2 week run on payment? I did receive a payment on 5th April but was this because esa is paid in arrears? TIA

Newcad

Your IR ESA ended (and the 2 week started) when you claimed UC.

So when was your last ESA payment before you claimed UC?

Was the ESA payment on 5th April a normal fortnightly amount? Was it more? Was it less?

The 26th to the 5th was a week and a half so depending how much the ESA payment was for then it may have been your final ESA including the run on.

Beckz1205

My last esa payment before I claimed was the 22nd March and then was paid again on 5th April (like I usually would have been) and it was my usual fortnightly amount. Just want to add that the money goes into my bank early on a Saturday but is technically due to be paid on the Monday every fortnight (so 24th March and 7th April)  if that makes any difference? 

Beckz1205

Okay, so I’ve just been paid £18.38…. Is this the 2 week run on payment?? Very small random amount 

Newcad

Thanks for providing those ESA dates.
Those ESA payments look correct to me.

First off:  £18.37 is not random, it is one days ESA WRAG at the 2025/2026 rates that came in on 7th April.
£128.60 per week / 7 =  £18.37 per day.

You say your last payment was due on the 24th March (although you got it early) and you claimed UC on the 26th.

You then got paid a fortnights ESA on 5th April. Lets say that payment was for 25th March to 7th April inclusive. ie. 1 day for the 25th March plus 13-days of the run on.

Which would leave 1 more day of the run on to pay, that would be for the 8th of April so at the new 2025/2026 rates.

For the observant, yes I know that the new rate should also have applied tor the 7th, it may have been but at only 31 pence a day difference between the rates the OP may not have noticed.
(I'm always cautious when someone says 'the same as before', because often when you get the numbers it turns out that it wasn't exactly the same).

EDIT - I'm rethinking this so have removed some of what I had written there.
It will depend just what dates the payment you got on the 22 March were for. ie did it include payment for the 24th itself?
If it did then that's fine but that odd payment situation has me wondering.
Do you have that information?
Have you had any letters from ESA since claiming UC? They usually turn up well after the payments the banks are quicker than the post office.

Beckz1205

Okay thanks for clearing that up- I did actually work out it was one days payment today. So the next payment I’ll receive is my UC payment towards the end of the month/beginning of may? 

Beckz1205

No I have had no letters turn up from them since I had a reminder letter about migrating. Then had another letter which was sent the day before I migrated saying they had extended my migration date until April but I’d already migrated by the time I received that. 

When I say the full amount it was exactly the same amount as it always is-£252.90

Yamor

This all looks to be correct to me. Your "benefit week" for ESA is (or was) Tuesday to Monday, which is why your payment day was (technically) Monday.

The ESA uprating only applies from the start of the first benefit week starting on or after 7th April (this year), so in your case, the uprating only applies from 8th April.

Your 2-week run-on was for the period 26th March to 8th April inclusive.

Of that the first 13 days were paid at the old rate, as part of the payment you actually received on 5th April (but which was only technically due on 7th April). The remaining day was paid at the new rate.

Newcad

Thanks @Yamor

It's been a few years since I was on ESA myself and I couldn't remember if payment was made on the last day of the "period", or the day after

I had at first there taken it as being on the last day of a period, so that 24th March was included in the payment before claiming UC, but then started to doubt myself for some reason.

TBH that's administrative anyway and only ever going to matter when working out any odd days in the first or last weeks an ESA claim