ESA and carers allowance
lisawallace
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can I get full ESA for the period I’ve been getting carers allowance?
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Hi and welcome,What ESA are you claiming? Income Related? New style ESA/Contributions based?0
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I’ve been granted £7.10 a week instead of £74.35 because it says I’m entitled to contribution based ESA. They haven’t had my medical assessment form back yet- it’ll arrive with them today.0
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I care for my disabled son so also get carers allowance.0
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It says it’s based on my contributions history but as I get CA I thought I’d get contributions along with that.0
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Is it New style ESA you're claiming? When did you start your claim for ESA?
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I’m not sure if it’s new style but I only applied last week - they’re backdating it to July. I could’ve claimed it before but thought it was means tested so didn’t.0
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I mean I could’ve claimed it before but I thought it was means tested so didn’t apply0
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Thank you for confirming that. This means that it's New style ESA that you've claimed. This is a contributions based only benefit, which means it's based on your NI contributions in tax year April 2017 to March 2019.Carers allowance and New style ESA together means they are overlapping benefits. Whilst you can claim them both together you can't be paid them both together and all you will receive is the difference between the carers allowance and New style ESA which is £7.10 per week. Of course you will still receive the carers allowance separately to the ESA payments.You can look at claiming Universal Credit but as this is a means tested benefit then it will depend on your circumstances. If you live with a partner then you claim as a couple. If you have savings/capital of more than £16,000 you're excluded from claiming.A claim for UC will end any tax credits you may already be claiming.Hope this helps.0
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I’m on the phone to DWP now - well in a Queue0
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I'm assuming that's to ask why you're only receiving the £7.10 per week? Asking DWP for advice isn't the best people to ask so please be aware of that as they mostly read from a screen.
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This links confirms the advice i gave regarding the overlapping benefit rules. Please scroll down to page 10 of this link. https://www.ageuk.org.uk/globalassets/age-uk/documents/factsheets/fs55_carers_allowance_fcs.pdf
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Just to let you know, I've moved your post into our ESA category @lisawallace0
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Hi. I'm new so not sure if I've posted in the correct place
I've had a good look through the discussions and still not sure
I have a joint claim with my partner who claims income related esa he also receives the disability income guarantee and extra money for the Support group
And recently was awarded pip. I know he's not entitled to the sdp but if I were to claim carers allowance if and how would any of this be effected?
Any help would be really appreciated ?0 -
Jo00 said:Hi. I'm new so not sure if I've posted in the correct place
I've had a good look through the discussions and still not sure
I have a joint claim with my partner who claims income related esa he also receives the disability income guarantee and extra money for the Support group
And recently was awarded pip. I know he's not entitled to the sdp but if I were to claim carers allowance if and how would any of this be effected?
Any help would be really appreciated ?
Provided you claim within 3 months of the PIP decision you can ask for the CA to be backdated to the start date of the PIP award.
(Technically the ESA is not a joint claim. The ESA claim is your partner's claim, although you are added to it as a partner for entitlement purposes it is not your claim and you do not get any NI credits from that claim although, as the claimant, he does.)0 -
Thank you so much that's clarified it all for me now the government websites are so confusing.0
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