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If I add SDP to my claim will it affect my ESA while they sort it out? Will this trigger move to UC?

Hello,
I'm in the esa support group and I currently get the enhanced premium added to my claim.
However, citizens advice believe I should be entitled to the severe disability premium as I live alone and my mother has stopped claiming carers allowance for me and is instead claiming carers credit which contributes towards her NI.
Are citizens advice correct. If I where to try and add SDP to my claim would it affect my esa while they sorted it out? Will this trigger a move to UC? I don't want to rock the boat and create a problem for myself.
They were informed when my mother moved out and when she stopped her CA. Although my condition or needs haven't changed. She felt she was better off getting a contribution to her pension instead.
I'm in the esa support group and I currently get the enhanced premium added to my claim.
However, citizens advice believe I should be entitled to the severe disability premium as I live alone and my mother has stopped claiming carers allowance for me and is instead claiming carers credit which contributes towards her NI.
Are citizens advice correct. If I where to try and add SDP to my claim would it affect my esa while they sorted it out? Will this trigger a move to UC? I don't want to rock the boat and create a problem for myself.
They were informed when my mother moved out and when she stopped her CA. Although my condition or needs haven't changed. She felt she was better off getting a contribution to her pension instead.
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It will have been up to you to claim it they wouldn't just have added it on automatically
Do you get PIP as you need to get daily living to get the sdp
Presumably your mother has said she no longer provides 35 hours of care which is why she no longer wants CA but does still provide 20 hours of care which allows her to claim carer credits.
You should be able to get SDP backdated to when mum stopped getting CA.