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Benefits advice.

Hi , thank you for accepting me.
I currently receive New style Esa (cont based) and Universal Credit pay my housing .
My question is two fold. As I have a small ill health pension (£41 a week) I'm not entitled to the Ir top up .After 365 days, do I go into IR ESA, or do UC make up the shortfall? It runs out early dec. UC say I'm fit to work, but esa have not assessed me, which doesn't make it easy.
Secondly, is UC taken as income for council tax as I moved recently, and now have to pay £41 a month as I'm band b, They now take my UC and ill heakth pensions and esa as income.
If anyone can help please
I currently receive New style Esa (cont based) and Universal Credit pay my housing .
My question is two fold. As I have a small ill health pension (£41 a week) I'm not entitled to the Ir top up .After 365 days, do I go into IR ESA, or do UC make up the shortfall? It runs out early dec. UC say I'm fit to work, but esa have not assessed me, which doesn't make it easy.
Secondly, is UC taken as income for council tax as I moved recently, and now have to pay £41 a month as I'm band b, They now take my UC and ill heakth pensions and esa as income.
If anyone can help please
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As you're claiming UC then your ESA will be deducted from this. There's no premiums paid with Contributions based ESA so the Income related part wouldn't be payable even if you weren't claiming the ill health pension. The pension doesn't affect your contributions based ESA because your pension is less than £85 per week.
Council tax reduction isn't part of UC and needs to be claimed separately from your local council.