How will my income affect my parent's UC?

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tk134212
tk134212 Online Community Member Posts: 3 Listener
edited June 28 in Work

Hi all,

I hope this is an okay place to ask this - if not I apologise.

I have just recently finished college, so we know about losing the "child"/dependent or whatever related bits, and have a job interview lined up in early July. My parents are convinced they will "lose all of their Universal Credit" - which I know is probably false, but I want to check how it will affect their claim.

I'm 18, turning 19 in August, studying part-time @ The Open University (so I don't qualify for full-time education clauses) and the interview will be for a full-time weekday junior role with a fairly low salary - the advertised range is 19-23k/yr.

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  • Holly_Scope
    Holly_Scope Posts: 2,737 Scope Online Community Coordinator

    Welcome @tk134212 😊 I'm afraid there is potential for your employment to impact the households benefits but this very much depends on the type of benefits they're claiming (i.e. if these are means tested benefits) and housing benefit/council tax. You'll need to understand what benefits are claimed before we can say for sure. It's great news about your potential job though, and I wish you the best for the interview!

  • tk134212
    tk134212 Online Community Member Posts: 3 Listener

    Hi Holly,

    Thank you for your response :) I believe my parents get most elements - they get the Child element (stopping Sept 1st either way since I no longer attend full-time ed), Housing element (though I of course intend to pay rent etc this if I do get the job, so any loss there should be made up for?) - they also get Carer bits but that's for my brother so I'm not sure if I'd affect that. Other than that they get their standard allowance for a couple. I think that's everything - a little while we did pop a message on their journal to ask so hopefully it'll be answered come Monday - but any advice you or someone else may be able to offer is certainly appreciated :)

  • chiarieds
    chiarieds Online Community Member Posts: 17,059 Championing

    Hi @tk134212 - & welcome to the forum. Your parents will just have a joint claim, & one of the elements they will have claimed is the 'child' element for you. Yes, this part stops on the 31 Aug following your 19th birthday if you've been in eligible education (& studying part time with the OU isn't mentioned). Eligible education is usually GCSEs, A levels, BTECS & NVQs up to level 3. https://www.entitledto.co.uk/help/child-over-16

    Your employment (which I hope you'll get) otherwise does not impact on your parents joint UC claim nor the Carer's element of UC. With the housing element of UC no deductions are made while you're under the age of 21. https://www.entitledto.co.uk/help/housing-overview-universal-credit

    Kindly let us all know how the job interview goes.

  • tk134212
    tk134212 Online Community Member Posts: 3 Listener

    Hi @chiarieds - thank you so much for clearing this up for us - that makes sense and most of the research I found myself reinforced that but then some places contradicted so I wasn't entirely sure :)

    I will definitely mention how it goes with the interview

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