Cancelling UC

Emm_vee

Hello.
I have been on UC since it started due to severe depression. 
Last month someone offered me a job (starting 1st September) working from home processing data. My councellor, who I saw last week, has suggested that it would help me get structure into my life.
I have to fill my income form in on 12th of every month. Which is when I planned on cancelling my UC claim.
Last Friday I received a message in my journal saying they want to do a claim review. 
Can I still cancel my claim without having to go through the anxiety of a review.

Grumpy_chap

Emm_vee said:

Hello.
I have been on UC since it started due to severe depression. 
Last month someone offered me a job (starting 1st September) working from home processing data. My councellor, who I saw last week, has suggested that it would help me get structure into my life.
I have to fill my income form in on 12th of every month. Which is when I planned on cancelling my UC claim.
Last Friday I received a message in my journal saying they want to do a claim review. 
Can I still cancel my claim without having to go through the anxiety of a review.

If you started the new job 1st September, have you actually received any income yet?

Spoonie_Turtle

Closing your claim without giving the information they need for the review could result in them deciding everything you've been paid has been an overpayment and asking for it all back.  So it would be wise to engage in the review, even though you don't want to.

Congratulations on the job, I hope it's going well and works out for you.

Emm_vee

Grumpy_chap said:

Emm_vee said:

Hello.
I have been on UC since it started due to severe depression. 
Last month someone offered me a job (starting 1st September) working from home processing data. My councellor, who I saw last week, has suggested that it would help me get structure into my life.
I have to fill my income form in on 12th of every month. Which is when I planned on cancelling my UC claim.
Last Friday I received a message in my journal saying they want to do a claim review. 
Can I still cancel my claim without having to go through the anxiety of a review.

If you started the new job 1st September, have you actually received any income yet?

No not yet 

Emm_vee

Thank you for both replies.
This issue has been delt with.

Northern_Wanderer

Did you have any LCW or LCWRA? EDITED ERROR If so, you can work less than 16 hrs/ week on UC 

If so you can work on UC, but may gat your LCW/RA status re-assessed. 

Spoonie_Turtle

Northern_Wanderer said:

Did you have any LCW or LCWRA? If so, you can work less than 16 hrs/ week on UC

I think you're mixing it up with Permitted Work on ESA.

LCW/RA has the work allowance, which is an amount of money ignored before taking deductions for earnings, but it's not a limit on how much can be earned like PW was with ESA, not restrictions on hours.  Someone with LCW/RA can work and earn as much as they like/are able to, up to the point it niks their claim (which is obviously higher than for people on comparable circumstances but without the work allowance).

Northern_Wanderer

Spoonie_Turtle said:

Northern_Wanderer said:

Did you have any LCW or LCWRA? If so, you can work less than 16 hrs/ week on UC

I think you're mixing it up with Permitted Work on ESA.

LCW/RA has the work allowance, which is an amount of money ignored before taking deductions for earnings, but it's not a limit on how much can be earned like PW was with ESA, not restrictions on hours.  Someone with LCW/RA can work and earn as much as they like/are able to, up to the point it niks their claim (which is obviously higher than for people on comparable circumstances but without the work allowance).

Oops, I did get mixed up, although I think it was the 16hrs thing when a person will not get assessed for LCW/RA on UC that I was thinking about at the time.