New style esa Proposals

Catherine21
Catherine21 Posts: 7,963 Championing
edited October 11 in Current affairs

Am I missing something is this what your migrated over from esa to universal credit?

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  • Kimi87
    Kimi87 Online Community Member Posts: 7,362 Championing

    Those are government proposals, not confirmed changes.

  • ricky1040
    ricky1040 Online Community Member Posts: 229 Empowering

    It's disgusting. They failed one way and are trying another. I had some faith they had good intentions but as this process has continued it's become pretty clear they just want rid of sickness benifets. How can you limit a benifet for an illness that never ends. I can't ever see this getting out into law.

  • Catherine21
    Catherine21 Posts: 7,963 Championing
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1074352#Comment_1074352

    So if it did go through on all lwcra would be for a year ??

  • Kimi87
    Kimi87 Online Community Member Posts: 7,362 Championing
    edited October 11

    LCWRA is Universal Credit, not New Style ESA.

    As I explained to you recently after migration to UC you either end up wholly on UC, or New Style ESA topped up by UC depending on what your legacy ESA is.

    This proposal would impact those wholly on New Style ESA because they are not entitled to UC which is means tested.

  • Catherine21
    Catherine21 Posts: 7,963 Championing
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1074385#Comment_1074385

    Thankyou its all so confusing hopefully im not on income related esa then when I move over

  • Kimi87
    Kimi87 Online Community Member Posts: 7,362 Championing
    edited October 11

    New style esa is for those who were getting both CB and IR ESA prior to migration.

    After migration:

    Mixed award =UC & New Style ESA

    Income Related = UC

    If this was stopped for existing claimants on both UC & NS ESA, the NS ESA would stop and the claimant would get the same amount of money, but from UC only. They wouldn't be any worse off financially.

    This is why I said it would only impact those solely on NS ESA.

  • Catherine21
    Catherine21 Posts: 7,963 Championing
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1074475#Comment_1074475

    Sorry kimi does that mean if you get uc and new style esa the new style will stop after a year

  • Kimi87
    Kimi87 Online Community Member Posts: 7,362 Championing

    As things are at the moment no.

    There is a proposal to change the rules and time limit NS ESA in some way, that the Government is currently consulting on.

  • Danny123
    Danny123 Online Community Member Posts: 197 Empowering

    So if

    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1074475#Comment_1074475

    So if I moved voullentatrlly from ESA support group to UC and now get ESA every two weeks and at the end of the month get my UC with deductions does that mean I was on CBESA with IR top up before switching to uc

  • Kimi87
    Kimi87 Online Community Member Posts: 7,362 Championing

    Yes your understanding is correct. That was also my situation before moving to Universal Credit.

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