Universal credit/esa

rcs8256

Hope someone can help I get esa and my on universal credit have started to get the disability payment of £328 my questions is can you claim the extra £126 as well as I am on lcwra and my esa claim is from before April 2017??
thank you 

steve51

Hi @rcs8256

Good Evening it’s great to meet you today.

Here’s some info for you below on “Benefits”

https://search.scope.org.uk/s/redirect?collection=scope-meta&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.scope.org.uk%2Fsupport%2Fdisabled-people%2Fbenefits%2Fadvice&index_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.scope.org.uk%2Fsupport%2Fdisabled-people%2Fbenefits%2Fadvice&auth=cS5QioUSKAAiHJ7Ut3EdBQ&profile=_default&rank=1&query=Benefits

Please please have a good look to see if it’s any good???

If you require any further help/advice please please let me know????

poppy123456

rcs8256 said:

Hope someone can help I get esa and my on universal credit have started to get the disability payment of £328 my questions is can you claim the extra £126 as well as I am on lcwra and my esa claim is from before April 2017??
thank you 

You can't claim the £126 as well at the £328. The £328 is the LCWRA which is the higher rate. £126 is the LCW.