I've already moved to Universal Credit but I've received a letter from ESA...
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No it doesn't, you've had your first UC statement with the ESA deduction and will now be paid every month.
New Style ESA will be paid exactly as your previous ESA on the same payment cycle every fortnight.
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Sorry jumping on i just phoned e s a i am on contribution based e s a with new style e s a with it which i get fortnightly but they said universal credit will be in touch with me to do a claimant commitment because that will be for the income side so will I have to have another medical ? I have already had my 1st payment from universal credit with L c w r a on top can anyone help please?
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You won't have to have another medical. If you've already had a payment then you must have agreed to Universal Credit commitments already.
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I have a letter from e s a saying if I dont accept claimant commitment they will not be able to pay me so I am panicking my e s a money will stop while awaiting universal credit to ask me to sign claimant commitment how long do u c take to tell me please?
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If you've already had a UC payment then you must already have accepted the UC (income based) commitments. The UC payments get blocked until you've done that.
You need to accept a second set of commitments for New Style ESA (contribution based), but it sounds like you've done those on the phone already?
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I received the same letter a while ago. Since the letter arrived, I've received two payments. ESA still haven't asked me to complete a claimant commitment.
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That's very interesting. I applied for NS ESA myself recently (should be a credits-only claim in my case) but haven't heard anything back at all. I guess it's possible they could have merged the ESA commitments into the UC commitments now, but that seems unlikely as they are two different benefits. Are you getting the correct UC payments with the ESA deducted? If so, it sounds like your commitments have been accepted one way or another.
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Hi.
I had to inform UC that I was on CB ESA and they amended the payment accordingly. Instead of receiving close to £800 of UC, I now receive just under £200, because my CB ESA (or New Style) amounts to just over £550 a month.
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Yes I got my 1st payment today from universal credit with L c w r a on top and I phoned e s a I get contribution based e s a with new style esa with it the support part esa is paid through universal credit but I need to sign my claimant commitment so I now panicking how long does universal credit take to tell me to sign the commitment? And do I still get paid universal credit while I awaiting them getting in touch to sign it ?
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That's good, you are getting the correct payments from both ESA & UC, so the commitments must have been accepted for both somehow.
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Yea but they want me to do another signed claimant commitment
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Hi,
Just to confirm, you won't get Contributions Based ESA any more. That's the old benefit. That has now been changed to New Style ESA when you migrated over.
The income based ESA has changed to LCWRA. So you are already getting that and must have already accepted the commitments.
If you look at your Universal Credit statement, does it show a deduction for ESA?
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Ok, if UC do want you to accept a new commitment, that will appear in the journal at some point.
You should also get a text or email notification to tell you there's a message available.
But if you want to make sure you don't miss it, you can log in to your journal once a day to check. You get 7 days to accept commitments online, so there is plenty of time.
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There's nothing on my journal at the moment I received a letter saying I be getting one but until they ask me on my journal do I still carry on getting paid from universal credit? I panicking about my houseing
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You will carry on getting both ESA and UC paid as normal.
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Thank you again Kimii I thought they would stop before signing new commitment stressed out 65 year old be glad when I get state pension October this year
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