About uc claim
just wondered me amd my partner have a joint uc claim and he works 32 hours a week I work 8 hours and I claim carers allowance and dla for 2 kids my question is I may be loosing my job as the place may be closing very soon due to not making enough money if I lost my job would my partner be made to work more hours as he only brings home £1,253 a month amd I know as a couple it needs to be £1,400 odd can’t remember the exact amount . Just worried he will be made to have meetings to look for more hours or as I don’t have to work would the expected amount he earns go down as only him working and I don’t have commitments
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As you're a carer claiming carers allowance/ carers element of UC then you have no work commitments. Your partners AET will be based on single person, which is £892/month.
Does the child that you don't claim carers allowance for received DLA mid/high rate care? If so does your partner claim carers element of UC for looking after them? (assuming they are also not claiming the LCWRA element for theirself) There's no earnings limit to this like there is with carers allowance.
Just to also make sure that your UC include carers element for yourself? Assuming you're not receiving the LCWRA element for yourself. Carers allowance is a separate benefit that's deducted in full from any UC entitlement.
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Cheers for that that has made a lot of worry go away knowing that ,he doesn’t claim carers element no it’s just me that claims as I didn’t know he could and no one told me he could my child is on middle rate. Do I need to get on to uc and ask them about it and yeah I claim carers allowance for one of my kids
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He will need to log into his journal and click "report a change" then from the list find "caring for someone" and report it through there. As a carer he will have no work commitments.
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I didn’t know he could do that as he earn to much for carers allowance I didn’t think he was entitled to carers element I though u got them both together and it doesn’t matter he works 32 hours a week he can still get carers element
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Carers Allowance is a separate benefit to UC. This has an earnings limit.
Carers Element is part of Universal Credit. This doesn't have an earnings limit.
So while he can't claim CA for child 2 he can claim CE.
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thankyou so much for ur help didn’t know any of this and have been on uc for about 8 months now it’s nice to have a lovely group to talk to about these things
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