Esa

Catherine21
Catherine21 Posts: 8,062 Championing
edited October 9 in Employment and Support Allowance (ESA)

I just phoned esa and asked my last two payments was on 7th of this month I asked if I will go on new style esa he said no as im getting full income related what does this mean pls

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  • Kimi87
    Kimi87 Online Community Member Posts: 7,444 Championing

    If you are on only Income Related ESA then this converts into Universal Credit.

    Only Contributions Based ESA changes to New Style ESA after migration.

  • Catherine21
    Catherine21 Posts: 8,062 Championing
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1073828#Comment_1073828

    I dont understand will it be worse for me

  • Catherine21
    Catherine21 Posts: 8,062 Championing

    Will i still be classed as unable to work im scared now

  • Catherine21
    Catherine21 Posts: 8,062 Championing
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1073828#Comment_1073828

    Ps thankyou for responding

  • Kimi87
    Kimi87 Online Community Member Posts: 7,444 Championing

    As you are migrating from ESA Support Group, you will be entitled to the UC equivalent (LCWRA) automatically.

    LCWRA has the same no work requirements as ESA.

    Financially there is no difference between someone migrating from IR ESA or IR & CB ESA onto UC.

    The basic money ends up exactly the same.

    The only difference is someone who was on IR ESA gets it all from UC.

    Someone who was on IR & CB ESA gets New Style ESA plus a UC top up.

  • Catherine21
    Catherine21 Posts: 8,062 Championing
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1073848#Comment_1073848

    Thankyou so much x

  • tealhoneydew16
    tealhoneydew16 Scope Member Posts: 100 Contributor

    Hi @Catherine21 I've just saw your post and I did exactly what you said you did and was told by the ESA on the phone I was IR only which is what I thought I was per letters etc…. Then upon migration and having to accept the claimant commitments over the phone with them I was told I'd been claiming BOTH CB & IR ESA all the long even though being told by esa on the phone it was just IR.

    I just thought I'd let you know going from my own experience which I didn't find out until the migration went through and esa and UC were linked

    Hope that helps

  • Catherine21
    Catherine21 Posts: 8,062 Championing
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1073926#Comment_1073926

    Oh ok Thankyou very much I was confused when he said that I will find out hopefully in 3 weeks im phone claim so awaiting letters did yours all go smoothly

  • tealhoneydew16
    tealhoneydew16 Scope Member Posts: 100 Contributor

    I did mine online so was able to ask for a telephone call as a reasonable adjustment once all my online form was completed and the lady that rang me was to accept commitments for NS ESA which takes over CB ESA and IR ESA stays within UC LCWRA like the support group I did mine in February this year and after that call to accept commitments within NS ESA and UC it was all done and ESA then sent the info required that I was Support Group ESA SDP which then was added to the TP part of the UC claim my NS ESA gets deducted in full from the UC which I was very confused about at the time but everything is still the same as when the migration happened I can go to the Journal every week to check it if anything I need to do and see your statement payment a couple of days before…. I'm not too sure how that works with a phone claim….. do you not have access to the journal when your a phone claim?

  • Catherine21
    Catherine21 Posts: 8,062 Championing

    The lady said my journel was up to date phone on 26th October to check what payments I will recieve should get a payment on 30th ? Housing association sent message saying been informed of uc so will call them end of October to see i pay bedroom tax so I been paying extra since 2019 so im two months ahead in rent

  • tealhoneydew16
    tealhoneydew16 Scope Member Posts: 100 Contributor

    ok so do you only get the information by phoning when it's a phone line claim then I'm not familiar with that route tbh my claim was done online so I get to see the journal

  • Catherine21
    Catherine21 Posts: 8,062 Championing

    HHi Kimi pls can I ask just received letter saying housing benefit stopped last two weeks so what i gather is uc will contact my housing association i dont have to do anything last payment for housing benefit was on 8th October thankyou

  • Kimi87
    Kimi87 Online Community Member Posts: 7,444 Championing

    That's correct, your Housing Benefit stopped due to the UC application.

    UC will contact your Housing Association to confirm your rent amount.

    It's possible for your UC Housing Element to be paid directly to HA, you can ask UC for this if it's something you want and you haven't already done so.

  • Catherine21
    Catherine21 Posts: 8,062 Championing
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1074206#Comment_1074206

    I asked and the lady wrote on the system I want to thankyou all your knowledge and help really made this more bearable a million thankyous god thankgod for you all

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