Random ESA payment?

FluffyCatMeow

Hi all,

I applied for UC on the 10th and got my final ESA payment last Friday but today I suddenly received an extra payment but of just more than half of what I usually get, and I am so confused.

My UC hasn’t started yet, so it’s not that, plus it says ESA on the bank statement.

Could it be because I applied for UC half way through the usual two-weekly ESA payments, so I got last week’s payment and then a kind-of-half payment for the second week (if that made any sense whatsoever 😅)?

I usually get £318.10 every two weeks and got £136.33 today, if those numbers help explain anything?

Thank you ☺️

poppy123456

Have you received any letters from ESA? was part of your ESA contributions based? If it was then this part will continue to be paid but at a rate of £138.20/week (£276.40 fortnight) The ESA will revert to New style ESA automatically. It would be deducted in full from any UC entitlement. The UC will top up your income.

If all of your ESA was Income Related then that payment may have been made in error and this would mean that amount would be deducted from your first UC payment.

I'd advise you to ring ESA to ask what the payment was for and they should be able to tell you.

poppy123456

https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/972178#Comment_972178

There would not be any deductions from UC for the run on payment. There would only be a deduction if you received another payment after that run on one. I did advise you this in a different thread.

FluffyCatMeow

Thank you for the advice, I gave them a call and it’s all sorted - phew 😅

just an update for anyone who stumbles across this thread in future with the same problem - the extra payment I got today was the top up for the two weeks run-on of ESA and that’s why it wasn’t the full amount.

(I had thought two weeks of ESA meant you’d get one more payment, even if it was just the next day after submitting the UC claim or something, but no, it’s two weeks of money and that can include a top up based on when your last full ESA payment was - so mine was last week, so today I got my final 6 days of the two weeks payment ← sorry, I’m bad at explaining 😂)

poppy123456

https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/972183#Comment_972183

Thank you for returning with an update. I'm glad it's sorted. The way it works confirms my advice that it doesn't matter when you claim UC, you will still receive a 2 week payment run on, after you submit the UC claim.