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Backdated ESA and UC

youhave13hours

Hi,

My partner may be due to receive a considerable amount of backdated ESA as he was on the wrong one for 10 years, if he does get it how will that affect our UC? I'm aware they need to be notified if he does receive it. It's still an if at this point.

Thanks for any insight.

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OverlyAnxious

Hi,

When it reaches your account, you should update your savings through the UC journal with the total amount.

Then on the next page make sure you put the exact amount of backpay to be disregarded.

It won't affect your payments at all once it's confirmed as a disregarded payment.

If it's less than £5000, then it'll be disregarded for 12 months. If it's more than £5000 then it gets disregarded for the lifetime of the claim.

youhave13hours

Thanks. It should be more than £5000. I was worrying they'd close our claim completely.

OverlyAnxious

https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1028169#Comment_1028169

No problem. The claim won't get closed as long as the savings are declared correctly.

You will have to remember to put the exact amount of backpay in the 'disregards' section each time you update savings again in future.

If you put savings of over £16,000, without putting anything in the disregarded section, that is when the claim would be automatically closed.