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Hello

Hello to all forumites a 60 year old male here and although not
registered disabled still managing to work on a reduced part time basis even
though I am starting to crumble rapidly lol. If my good doctor can prop
me up for another seven years I will be very happy. I have joined to see
what is available assistance wise and the criteria needed to comply as
my salary is rather poor . Just joined the new benefit called U.C three
months ago and I have just been invited to go on a UC 50 exam and
wondering what to expect. Will have a good look around the forum for
snippets of advice as their is quite a lot of reading material
available.
Anyway thanks for listening and I
hope your all enjoying our present spell of drop dead gorgeous weather
and long may it continue. Adios.
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Good Evening & Welcome 👍👍
I am one of a number of Community Champion’s here at Scope.
We have a lot of Benefit Advice on our site & in our community.
I would be more than happy in helping you with these if required??
@steve51
“Welcome it’s great to meet you today”
Thank you very much for your info/post.
Yes we all need to jump through hoops to get anything nowadays.
Please please let me let me know if you have any probs getting around 🤗🤗🤗
@steve51
Have you had your assessment for LCW on Universal Credit yet? Hope you're getting on okay.
Scope
If you have a few minutes to spare, we'd appreciate your feedback on our online community.
Sorry I've only just spotted your reply and query.
For the carer element of Universal Credit, your wife would need to be in receipt of PIP (any rate of the daily living component). Unfortunately, even though you care for her for more than the required hours, because she's not in receipt of PIP you sadly won't be entitled to the carer element. For this reason, it might be worth your wife considering applying for PIP. It would also mean that with the carer element you wouldn't be obligated to work at all, so if your health continued to decline, or you needed to reduce your hours further, you could do this without worrying about Universal Credit expecting you to look for more work.
Scope
If you have a few minutes to spare, we'd appreciate your feedback on our online community.