Hi, my name is Aryad!

Aryad

I just joined and I have a question about my UC statement. My take home alliance was £631 which now decreased to £404! Is that because I claimed for a rent help or is there other reason?
also I uploaded some childcare costs but the paid one of them which was in my current payment period. The others that I paid to book childcare service for summer, hasn’t been paid. Are they going to pay in next payment of as soon as the booked service date passed they will pay separately? Thanks in advance for any advice

poppy123456

Take home alliance? Do you mean work allowance? If so and you're now claiming for help with the rent it will be £404/month.

The £631/month work allowance was the amount before the April increase if you weren't claiming for help with the rent. It is now £673/month.

You can't claim for child care costs before the child care actually happens. It will be paid after. See link.

How childcare costs payments work on Universal Credit

You have to pay for your childcare costs yourself. Then you report them to Universal Credit, and Universal Credit pays some of the money back.

You will only get the money back with Universal Credit after the childcare actually happens.

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/universal-credit-childcare-costs

Aryad

thank you very much, poppy123456