Wife given UC job focused interview - both care for children. Is this right?

morabe

Myself getting PIP advance rate for carrying and lower rate for mobility I have a seven year old son autistic nonverbal. He gets DLA higher rate for caring and mobility and I have four year-old son who get DLA middle rate for caring only and 1/5 year baby we claim with my wife as a joint clime . I am getting careers allowance for looking after my older son and my wife was climbing careers allowance for caring for myself after we moved from ESA to universal through migration letter. We didn’t have to go for a job interview but soon as my wife reported stopping caring for me despite we have to disable children now receiving a message from her journal in universal Credit asking her to job focused interview by the phone in six weeks time and now she receive another reminder message if she looked for any job online, does my wife have to go for a job interview you or look for work can someone give me advice, please?

Rachel_Scope

Hi @morabe and welcome to the community. I've just changed your post title so it's more visible and hopefully our members with similar experiences can help.

Lauren29

Can I ask why if your wife was claiming Carers Allowance for looking after you before you claimed Universal Credit why she stopped? If you moved from ESA does one of you have limited capability for work related activity?

morabe

only myself have LCWA because we have two children who receive DLA. I already receive carers allowance for my son how gets higher rate of DLA my wife want to claim for my younger son who gets DLA medium rate for caring only does she can get carers element if she stop caring for me she will get the careers element for my younger son. Does she have to claim for carers element for our younger son or do automatically apply careers element to the claim?

Lauren29

At the moment are you receiving the LCWRA and Carer Element in your UC payment?

morabe

I an receiving LCWRA and allowance from careers allowance, not element on UC

morabe

I am receiving LCWRA and carers allowance from careers allowance ,not careers element on UC