UC and State Pension age

28hopwl

Hi can anyone please help as we are new to all of this and we are so stressed.

I’m my sister’s appointee and to claim housing benefit she had to claim UC which she got , I checked her state pension age and she will be 66 years old in 2026 I looked online and it says you cannot get UC or housing benefit when you reach this age is this right .

Also she gets ESA in a support group I got a message in her journal saying she has to go onto the new style ESA and a work coach will phone on Monday I have my hands full with my sister as she suffers from schizophrenia in a wheelchair and a lot more health problems I cannot cope with all of this .

We will lose our home when my sister reaches pension age I cannot eat or sleep I’m keeping it to myself as my sister is so unstable.

She also gets Tesco very small pension which she got on the ground of ill health.

I hope you can understand what I’m trying to say .

Thank you for your time

Kimi87

For New Style ESA please click View Post (in purple) and read through this thread:

https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/130268/ive-already-moved-to-universal-credit-but-ive-received-a-letter-from-esa

Your sister gets Housing Element via Universal Credit.

When she reaches state pension age, UC will end as it is a benefit for people of working age.

State Pension replaces UC, and she can claim Housing Benefit via local authority to pay the rent.