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Hi, my name is vixter! UC and my son's DLA

vixter
vixter Community member Posts: 3 Listener
Hi, I'm new to all this 😊

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  • vixter
    vixter Community member Posts: 3 Listener
    Hi, I'm just wondering if anyone knows if you can get back pay on universal credit due to my son's dla. I didn't realise I should of informed them that my son was moved from middle to high care component last year. Thanks.
  • poppy123456
    poppy123456 Community member Posts: 49,593 Disability Gamechanger
    You will need to tell them about his DLA award if you haven't already. It should be backdated to the assessment period in which the changes took place. It may take a few weeks for a decision to be made and a few weeks after that to pay any money that's owed.
    I would appreciate it if members wouldn't tag me please. I have all notifcations turned off and wouldn't want a member thinking i'm being rude by not replying.
    If i see a question that i know the answer to i will try my best to help.
  • Alex_Scope
    Alex_Scope Posts: 7,562 Scope online community team
    Hi there @vixter and welcome, just to let you know I've moved your post over into our benefits category, and edited the title so it's easier to find :) 

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  • vixter
    vixter Community member Posts: 3 Listener
    Thank you really appreciate that.
  • 2oldcodgers
    2oldcodgers Posts: 640 Connected
    You will need to tell them about his DLA award if you haven't already. It should be backdated to the assessment period in which the changes took place. It may take a few weeks for a decision to be made and a few weeks after that to pay any money that's owed.
    Something has always confused me.
    As far as I was aware a change of circumstances has to be reported to the DWP asap and certainly with 30 days. Failure to do so would result in the backdating to only go as far back to the date notification was made.
    In the past I have had this done to me (costing me £1,000's) when I was late in notifying that I should reported the CofC much earlier. The resulting underpayment (back dated payment) was restricted only from the actual date of notification and not the day the change occurred. 

  • Biblioklept
    Biblioklept Community member Posts: 3,899 Disability Gamechanger
    You will need to tell them about his DLA award if you haven't already. It should be backdated to the assessment period in which the changes took place. It may take a few weeks for a decision to be made and a few weeks after that to pay any money that's owed.
    Something has always confused me.
    As far as I was aware a change of circumstances has to be reported to the DWP asap and certainly with 30 days. Failure to do so would result in the backdating to only go as far back to the date notification was made.
    In the past I have had this done to me (costing me £1,000's) when I was late in notifying that I should reported the CofC much earlier. The resulting underpayment (back dated payment) was restricted only from the actual date of notification and not the day the change occurred. 

    I think it depends if you could feesably have notified them sooner and the reason for not. But decision makers can also apply discretion <3
  • poppy123456
    poppy123456 Community member Posts: 49,593 Disability Gamechanger
    You will need to tell them about his DLA award if you haven't already. It should be backdated to the assessment period in which the changes took place. It may take a few weeks for a decision to be made and a few weeks after that to pay any money that's owed.
    Something has always confused me.
    As far as I was aware a change of circumstances has to be reported to the DWP asap and certainly with 30 days. Failure to do so would result in the backdating to only go as far back to the date notification was made.
    In the past I have had this done to me (costing me £1,000's) when I was late in notifying that I should reported the CofC much earlier. The resulting underpayment (back dated payment) was restricted only from the actual date of notification and not the day the change occurred. 

    I think it depends if you could feesably have notified them sooner and the reason for not. But decision makers can also apply discretion <3

    Agreed. It also depends what the CoC is and what benefits it for exactly.
    I would appreciate it if members wouldn't tag me please. I have all notifcations turned off and wouldn't want a member thinking i'm being rude by not replying.
    If i see a question that i know the answer to i will try my best to help.
  • 2oldcodgers
    2oldcodgers Posts: 640 Connected
    edited April 27


    Agreed. It also depends what the CoC is and what benefits it for exactly.
    The DWP should have given 2 carers premiums in the Pension Credit award as far back as 2009.
    When I found out that this was an error in 2018 on the part of the Pension Service they rectified the error and paid the missing Pension Credit money  for the period ( February 2018 when I brought it to their attention to November 2020) instead of from 2009.  
    The Pension Service told me that they could not go back the extra 9 years as I did not appeal against the 2009 award in the time frame allowed. They pointed out that It was my responsibility to check the award and appeal if it was wrong. I just assumed that the award was correct at the time.

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