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Universal Credit and "overlapping benefits".

rbz
rbz Empowering
January 2025 in Universal Credit (UC)

Please let me know why during UC claim Carers Allowance treated as "overlapping benefit"?

UC and Carers Allowance looks like completely different benefits.

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  • Kimi87
    Kimi87 Championing
    January 2025

    Turn2us has a really good explanation:

    https://www.turn2us.org.uk/jargon-buster/overlapping-benefits

    Basically benefits designed to replace an income, so a person is entitled to one not two or more.

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  • rbz
    rbz Empowering
    January 2025
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/974305#Comment_974305

    Thank you for information.

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  • rbz
    rbz Empowering
    January 2025
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/974305#Comment_974305

    Thanks for information

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