LCWRA

FranCiscO123

Hello I received this letter in my journal on the 22th Jan, had a phonecall assessment on the 15th Jan was meant to be on the 9th December but they rescheduled.. I first made it known to the jobcentre that I would like to apply back in September last year, on the 12th of September I handed in my fitnote which was for 3months starting on the 10th September to December. My next UC payment is on the 8th February, will I receive my first payment for LCWRA on that date or at a different date? Sorry I am new to it.

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Kimmy87

Edit, sorry I can see you've already provided that information.

And which date did you report the health condition?

FranCiscO123

Hello thanks for your response, I'm confused with the "assessment period" it all started in the month of September last year I handed in my fitnote and the form was filled in and sent in. I reported it in September

Kimmy87

Sorry I can see you provided the payment date in your OP.

What date did you report the health condition? I need to know that in order to advise correctly.

FranCiscO123

I hope this is what you meant 🙈. The 8th of each month, the next is on the 8th of February

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FranCiscO123

I reported it on the 20th of September

Kimmy87

LCWRA has a waiting period of three full assessment periods, from the date the first Fit Note was handed in. No money is paid or subsequently owed for that period.

September/October: Partial AP, excluded from waiting period.

October/November: AP 1

November/December: AP 2

December/January: AP 3

January/February: Eligible for LCWRA element.

February 8th: First LCWRA element paid*

If there isn't time for DWP to process the decision and add LCWRA to your next statement, they will owe you one month.

Money owed is calculated and paid separately. You'll know this has been done as a letter will be added to your Journal with confirmation of the amount. The payment will then arrive several days later.

*If you have Transitional Protection on the claim, it will reduce by the LCWRA amount.

*If you have Carers Element in your name on the claim, LCWRA will replace this as the same person cannot get both.

*If you have a partner on your claim who gets LCWRA, no money will be paid as within a couple the maximum number of LCWRA elements is 1.

FranCiscO123

Thank you very much for your replies and information kimmy, before I signed up and made this post, yesterday I've been reading other comments and I saw your replies to them aha when I saw your message I was like "oh sh!t it's kimmy" 👀🙈😅😅

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FranCiscO123

OK sorry about that I tried to put an exclamation mark on the word my bad

FranCiscO123

Hello my first payment is on February, will it be backdated?

Kimmy87

As I advised:

January/February: Eligible for LCWRA element.

February 8th: First LCWRA element paid

If there isn't time for DWP to process the decision and add LCWRA to your next statement, they will owe you one month.

FranCiscO123

OK thank you, just this whole process have been a battle it just seems a tad surreal that its all over and done with

FranCiscO123

Hello I've just got my statement for February, my lcwra is not included. So this means they owe me 1 month right? So I leave a message on my journal asking this?

Kimmy87

Yes they now owe you one month.

Personally I'd allow a little more time for them to process the decision before enquiring, it hasn't been long and usually takes them several weeks at least sometimes.

FranCiscO123

OK thanks very much Kimmy 🙂

poppy123456

Can I please just ask if you continued to provide fit notes without any gaps right up until the decision was made? In your first comment you said you provided a fit note between Sept and Dec but the decision wasn't made until 22nd January.

Gaps will affect when the extra money is paid from.

FranCiscO123

Only January whilst the assessment was going on that I didn't provide the fitnote, during the assessment. But this was explained during the phonecall

FranCiscO123

My assessment was meant to be in December but they reschedule it for January

poppy123456

What date did your last fit note end? That gap is highly likely going to affect when the extra money is paid from. I know your assessment in Dec was cancelled but that didn't mean you could stop the fit notes.

FranCiscO123

I stopped because I was and still climbing out of it but I was neck deep in my mental issues 🙈 my GP is only 10mins walk from my house. It stopped in January and January is when everything happened, my face to face and the decision.