Hi, my name is chelsiemajor! Will I get a backdated payment? How long will it take?

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  • racyguy
    racyguy Online Community Member Posts: 560 Empowering
    calcotti said:
    racyguy said:
    Makes you wonder how much the State are holding on when not paying people like us.
    They are not paying you because you are not claiming for reasons that you have rehearsed across numerous threads.
    Sorry but I will try and rephrase it.
    For the 7+ years that we claimed Pension Credit (2014 - 2022) after my wife became eligible to have me claim CA or whatever it is called - premium for her should not the Pension Service make a payment to me to cover my loss? It was their department (local Jobcentre) that made it clear to me at the time that I couldn't make that claim due to me claiming the SRP which I now am told was wrong advice.

    Aside of that, is it true that anybody who is entitled to make a CA claim but is also receiving the SRP cannot be awarded that benefit because of the SRP unless they are in receipt of a means tested benefit - Pension Credit?
    I find that incredible if true. There are close to 1m potential claimants that don't claim Pension Credit and as such they, like me, cannot get any financial help towards the 35 hours+ that they provide the care. 

     The more and more that I am finding out about how the DWP/Pension Service stitch people up the more I am seeing how the system works against those that plod along hoping and expecting them to give help and advice instead of putting people off as they seem to have done to me over the years.
  • poppy123456
    poppy123456 Online Community Member Posts: 64,463 Championing
    racyguy said:
    calcotti said:
    racyguy said:
    Makes you wonder how much the State are holding on when not paying people like us.
    They are not paying you because you are not claiming for reasons that you have rehearsed across numerous threads.

    Aside of that, is it true that anybody who is entitled to make a CA claim but is also receiving the SRP cannot be awarded that benefit because of the SRP unless they are in receipt of a means tested benefit - Pension Credit?
    I find that incredible if true. There are close to 1m potential claimants that don't claim Pension Credit and as such they, like me, cannot get any financial help towards the 35 hours+ that they provide the care. 

     The more and more that I am finding out about how the DWP/Pension Service stitch people up the more I am seeing how the system works against those that plod along hoping and expecting them to give help and advice instead of putting people off as they seem to have done to me over the years.

    Yes, State pension and carers allowance are overlapping benefits. If the state pension is more than the carers allowance, you can't receive both at the same time, it's the law. The same applies to other benefits such as New style ESA/JSA, contributions based ESA/JSA so it's not just those of state pension age it affects.
    For those of state pension age, if they're entitled to pension credit then they have an underlying entitlement to CA which can increase pension credit by £38.85/week because of carers premium.
    It's the same as those claiming Income Related benefits such as ESA/JSA/Income Support and Universal Credit. If a person claims carers allowance it is deducted in full from those benefits and a carers premium is added. This means rather than be better off by the carers allowance amount and carers premium, they are not, they will only be better off by £38.85/week.


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