benefits gone down

lucylucy

hi ive just looked at our latest statement for uc and lwcra ect and it has gone down £20 a month its saying that migration protection went down because uc gone up yet were down £20 it doesnt make sense to me

OverlyAnxious

Hi,

Can you post a screenshot of the statement? (Without personal details)

The April rates increase should mean UC & LCWRA has gone up. And Transitional Protection should be reduced at the same amount. It sounds like there might be an error on yours though.

lucylucy

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hi these are my statements as you can see its gone down

Kimi87

The total before deductions is the same, has anything changed with your deductions?

lucylucy

no nothing changed it just says the transitional pritection has gone down because of rise in uc but its still £20 less a month i dont understand why

lucylucy

lucylucy

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there has been achange in deductions but why

Kimi87

Carers Allowance went up in April so the deduction has increased by £6.

Your rent deduction has also increased but as the Housing Element also went up that should break even.

I can't make sense of why you are now actually worse off by £20.

Perhaps a trained benefits advisor would be able to help

https://advicefinder.turn2us.org.uk/

OverlyAnxious

https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1026234#Comment_1026234

I think there are 2 different things going on here.

Carers Allowance went up by £6 - so that £6 isn't lost, it's just coming in with the CA payment instead of the UC payment.

And the Housing Element went up by about £12 to cover the extra rent. I think this has been deducted from the TP. But because rent goes straight to the landlord in this case, the OP is worse off because they lose the TP, but they weren't seeing the rent payment before anyway.

That does still leave a couple of pounds missing, but I think that's the general idea of what's happened here.