Baffled by payments

starbuck
starbuck Community Member Posts: 213 Empowering
in Universal Credit (UC)

My partner and I claimed uc for a few months last year. Because of an inheritance we closed our claim.

Now the inheritance money has been spent on a disabled bathroom extension we've claimed uc again but the payments are coming in a lot lower than we were getting last year. I can't work out why the payments are so much less ( around £230 less each month).

We were moved onto uc from legacy benefits so we had transitional protection - could this account for the difference? I'm really baffled so tried filling in turn2us but the payments didn't match up there either.

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  • Kimi87
    Kimi87 Community Member Posts: 8,880 Championing

    Do you have any copies of previous statements to look at and compare to your new payment statement?

    It could well be because you used to receive Transitional Protection, but are not eligible for it on your new claim.

  • starbuck
    starbuck Community Member Posts: 213 Empowering

    No I don't have copies of the old online statements. It seems such a big difference.

  • Kimi87
    Kimi87 Community Member Posts: 8,880 Championing

    Transitional Protection can be several hundred pounds depending on the legacy benefit circumstances.

    Do you feel all the elements that should be on your new award are there?

    A local welfare rights organisation could look over your award to make sure it's correct.

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

  • Yani09
    Yani09 Community Member Posts: 108 Empowering

    The lcwra payment is less now.. you may be getting the lower amount…

  • Kimi87
    Kimi87 Community Member Posts: 8,880 Championing
    edited May 28

    That's certainly something worth OP checking on the new UC award - I'd expect LCWRA to be paid at the higher rate as OP's past posts mention New Style ESA and this won't have ended due to the inheritance.

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