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I think so because they do MR from the date you claimed ie if your owed any back pay and sometimes it's quicker I put mine in last July my award was ending March 2025 so I got two weeks before my end date

No they are fine about that but I made the mistake of starting my claim on the wrong day . So my esa was due on the following Monday and I started uc migration on the Friday before. ESA sent me full amount of my last payment. So housing benefit did the same Uc then stopped a certain amount from my money. But uc also deducted the extra that was paid towards my rent but no one knows who actually has it . But they’ve taken it from me . I would say do not apply for uc before you next payment of esa is due . I applied a few days early . Had I applied on the day my esa was due I would have had one last payment then uc kicks in . But I did it too soon and caused an overlap.
You ask them to pay your rent directly then ask your council to send them a particular form . I’ll look at my journal and check . Council sends them a UC 47 to request rent from them directly

Yeh, when people have power it brings out who they are, morals etc. psychopaths do it without it affecting them morally .

I moved over voullentatrlly and it was all done over the phone , I did have some security questions when I had to make the claim for UC , I think they do a check with a verified company like the post office or Experian , I remember questions like have you taken out a phone contract in the last two years , things like that .... I must of passed because if they can't confirm your identity like that they don't let you go forward with the claim ..... There was a bit of confusion at the beginning as they were training people and I was being asked for sick notes , even though I'd been on ESA for 15 years .... They must of thought it was a new claim instead of me migrating over .... Luckily enough there was a women on the other end of the phone training them and when she realised what was going on she took over , her title was a DOA " disability something agent " .... She left a message in my journal saying she would be calling and we went from there she asked me a few questions like if I'd had any gaps in my claim etc and had my claim up on her computer while we were both in it , basically excepted all my commitments on her end while we were on the phone , she then informed me I was going to stay on cbesa every two weeks and the rest would be paid at the end of the month in lcwra .... That was the last I heard of them , until the UC told me they are building my claim and it all went through ok .... Never had to show id or anything like that ....I've been changed to UC now exactly 3 years now and the only message Ive has up until now is about other benefits I have , basically just says our records show you also receive cbesa , you are allowed to continue getting this bit it will get deducted from your UC award at the end of each payment .... Then they show you a list of benefits Inc ESA and say if you get 1 or more of these benefits OTHER than the ones we already know about them you must contact the department and tell them you are now on UC ..... Like I say they know I'm on ESA and UC so I don't need to tell them about them and I don't revive any others so I don't need to contact anyone .... Other than that I haven't heard from them

Oh I see , have you not moved over yet ? It was stressing me out so I got it out the way with , like you say I was better off by about nearly 200 pounds , give or take maybe a bit less I'm not sure

I feel I am obsessed with it all..

Non stop looking for 'hope' that these changes won't happen.

One minute 'oh it might be ok' ,next I am devastated..

It is so bad what these so called people are putting us through.

It is our lives ,our very existence.

I am fixated it feels like.

Everything happening with these benefits reforms is very worrying.

It feels like they don't actually care about that at all :(

It's not just you @bton1968 It's taken joining this forum for me to realise I'm not the only person living in terror.

I'm the same if someone disturbs me whilst I'm hyperfocusing on these sites I get so overwhelmed like it's the end of the world I have no time for anyone it's awful I don't mean to be like it I think it's the not knowing sucks