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carers allowance annomoly - check yours!

Hi All, hope you're all having a good day.
A noticed a strange thing regarding my Carers allowance today. As we know, Carers Allowance is £66.15 per week. But if claiming Universal credit, it's deducted £1 for £1. This then gets covered by Carer Element. So far so good.
So I see that deducted from my UC is £286.65, which represents £66.15 x 4.333 weeks, or a calender month.
But then I saw that I receive seperately my Carers Allowance of £264.60 per month, which represents £66.15 x 4. ???
So it's a difference of £22.05 underpayment or overpayment whichever way you look at it, but I'm this figure worse off each month.
I've checked, and I am paid on the same day each month, so both are per calender month or every 4.333 weeks. Most bizarre, and I'm surprised I hadn't noticed it before.
I have queried it, but thought I would share in case others have had the same experience... So do check yours people!
A noticed a strange thing regarding my Carers allowance today. As we know, Carers Allowance is £66.15 per week. But if claiming Universal credit, it's deducted £1 for £1. This then gets covered by Carer Element. So far so good.
So I see that deducted from my UC is £286.65, which represents £66.15 x 4.333 weeks, or a calender month.
But then I saw that I receive seperately my Carers Allowance of £264.60 per month, which represents £66.15 x 4. ???
So it's a difference of £22.05 underpayment or overpayment whichever way you look at it, but I'm this figure worse off each month.
I've checked, and I am paid on the same day each month, so both are per calender month or every 4.333 weeks. Most bizarre, and I'm surprised I hadn't noticed it before.
I have queried it, but thought I would share in case others have had the same experience... So do check yours people!
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I checked my bank statement and saw that I'm paid on the 3rd of each month, so assumed it was calender monthly. Had no idea that there might be weeks when I'm credited for 5 weeks. I've only been claiming for 3 months, so probably haven't noticed the long month one yet.
It's still a deficit of £22.05 each motn until a 5 weeks one comes along though!
If you want to delete the thread so as to not confuse others thats OK?
Over the course of a year you are credited the same amount of Carers Allowance as is deducted from Universal Credit, it's just the difference between the weekly/4-weekly Carers Allowance and the monthly calculation of UC.
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