Self employment income support scheme

sus19

Hi, hubby self employed **** contractor been out of work for the six weeks so far. So we applied for universal credit and the first payment next week. But today letter saying we are entitled to self employment income support scheme. Will I just have to tell them we are getting universal credit to make the payment less or do I need to tell UC once this is going through!? Not sure how it works. Any info would be great, thanks 

chiarieds

Hi @sus19 - Welcome to the community. Here's some info on the grant you mention from the government's website. See: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/claim-a-grant-through-the-coronavirus-covid-19-self-employment-income-support-scheme

If you read through the link, it say's, 'You can make a claim for Universal Credit while you wait for the grant. The grant may affect the amount of Universal Credit you get, but will not affect claims for earlier periods.'

I hope this may help.

sus19

Yes I ve looked through that now thanks. 

sus19

I understand that now but obviously it's going to be 3 months all in one which I can put on journal. If we get overpaid by UC how does it get paid back? 

Adrian_Scope

Hello @sus19. It's my understanding that the money from the self-employment income support scheme will count as income for the month you receive it in, not the months it was owed for. 
If they do decide to use it retrospectively and claim you've been overpaid previous months UC, they will issue an overpayment letter. This will then be treated as a social-fund debt and recovered from future UC payments.