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If I stay with my mum for 3 weeks between moving house, will my benefits be transferred over?

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Hi @kami24
Hope you're well.
Your PIP will reamin in tact, you'd need to just inform the DWP of your address change of course.
ESA and Housing Benefit are slowly being phased out and replaced with Universal Credit, but whether you are required to change when you move may depend on a few things.
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I'm Esa support group anyway and housing benefit
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It's not upto the council and they can't stop your PIP or ESA, if you live at your mums you won't get HB, being in the support group means your ESA won't be affected if you move areas.Seasons greetings to one and all 🎄🎅🏻🌲
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That's good to know as I've considered moving areas as I have personality disorder
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If I am in the support group can they continue my housing benefit even if I'm at my mum's if I have to be whilst the old tenants move out of the flat I am going to have? Thanks
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Depends which Party your local Council are under, the Tories are known for being evil about this sort of thing, Labour are allegedly more forgiving.
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True Mr Allen!!!
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woodbine said:...being in the support group means your ESA won't be affected if you move areas.Information I post is for England unless otherwise stated. Rules may be different in other parts of UK.
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Kami, if there is a gap between your two tenancies I think this will break your Housing Benefit entitlement. However if you have signed a new tenancy you can ask your local authority if it is possible to keep the claim live for a few weeks even though nothing will be payable. I don’t know if that is possible but there is no harm in asking.
if your new address is in a different local authority it will not be possible to continue the Housing Benefit anyway.
if the Housing Benefit claim is closed then you will not be able to make a new claim and if you want help with rent you will have to claim UC. The act of claiming UC will end any income-based ESA you get (contribution based ESA would continue).Information I post is for England unless otherwise stated. Rules may be different in other parts of UK. -
Would they really force you onto uc if you were on Esa support group and housing benefit and had like 5 days Gap????
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kami24 said:Would they really force you onto uc if you were on Esa support group and housing benefit and had like 5 days Gap????Information I post is for England unless otherwise stated. Rules may be different in other parts of UK.
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But it does as Esa would be taken from you actually if you were forced onto uc from housing benefit isn't that so??
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kami24 said:But it does as Esa would be taken from you actually if you were forced onto uc from housing benefit isn't that so??Information I post is for England unless otherwise stated. Rules may be different in other parts of UK.
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I lived with my Parents last year from the 8th of March till around the end of September, and my benefits weren't affected, this was enforced due to the first and second lockdowns.
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MrAllen1976 said:I lived with my Parents last year from the 8th of March till around the end of September, and my benefits weren't affected, this was enforced due to the first and second lockdowns.Seasons greetings to one and all 🎄🎅🏻🌲
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Hi again. If there is a tiny break between tenancies and I want to continue to claim severe disability premium if I am able to will I be able to claim it or transition into UC with the severe disability premium or is the government this cruel and have basically put disabled people in this predicament??
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This is all new but I think you would need to do the following.
When you move to your mum’s and your tenancy ends then your HB ends. Your ESA continues but you are no longer entitled to SDP (unless your mum and any other adult family members also get a disability benefit).
You sign your new tenancy and move in.
You contact ESA and get SDP reinstated (assuming you meet the conditions).
Then you claim UC and your award should include the SDP transitional element.
Unlike the SDP itself, which is a fixed amount, the SDP transitional element is set at the start of the UC claim but will, in future reduce if any other elements payable increase. This means that if a future rent rise resulted in a higher housing element being paid it would also reduce the SDP element.
For a single claimant with LCWRA the SDP transitional element is initially £120/month.
Information I post is for England unless otherwise stated. Rules may be different in other parts of UK. -
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