Help!! Migration nightmare continues

Please read through this thread for information and reassurance.

You don't need to do anything but sit tight and wait, a telephone appointment will be sent to you.

There will be no interruption to your ESA payments even if they take a while to get to you.

The up to date figures are £281.10 per fortnight in NS ESA payments, with £609.05 deducted from UC.

As previously advised in the thread I linked to, all you'll need to do for New Style ESA is a brief phone appointment, where you are asked to agree to keep them informed of any changes.

That really is it. Within the thread I linked to is another thread, where a few people who have been through this call say how easy it was.

Craig above has also given you his experience with this process.

As he said the letter they send out is a generic one assuming you are a new claim for NS ESA, which you are not.

The payment of £281.10 is correct as I wrote yesterday it would be for that amount. You will get that NS ESA once a fortnight, with your income topped up by a UC payment once a month.

Your Income Related ESA has stopped and been replaced by Universal Credit.

Your Contributions Based ESA has converted into New Style ESA.

It's incredibly common not to know what your ESA award was made up of until you migrate.

It's one of the most common questions I myself see and answer here on the forum, sometimes as often as few times a day, certainly multiple times per week.

This is why I link to threads as a response because the information is already available here on the forum, and I voluntarily help people amongst my own health issues.

You will at some point receive a telephone appointment via your UC Journal for the NS ESA commitments.

Your ESA will continue to be paid even if it takes a while for them to get to you.

ESA letters are very difficult to understand, even for experienced advisors so many people simply don't know or are mistaken about their ESA award.

Every two weeks you will receive New Style ESA of £281.10.

Every month you will receive a UC payment made up of the different UC elements that you are entitled to.

On your UC statement you will see a deduction of £609.05, this is a months worth of New Style ESA.

There were two types of ESA, Contributions Based and Income Related. IR was means tested, CB was not.

When people originally applied for ESA, DWP put them onto whichever one they were eligible for.

Some people were on one type, others like you and me were on both.

NS ESA isn't a means tested benefit like UC so there are advantages of staying with both, recent discussion here:

CB ESA means you paid or were credited enough NI contributions in a set period of time. I too was unaware that my legacy ESA claim was mixed, even when I attended the ID interview.

The first I knew about it, was the follow up call the next morning, to ask me to accept my commitments. (I didn't even know i was to receive a follow up call. The adolescent at the Job Centre failed to tell me).

NS ESA will earn you Class 1 NI credits, which can count towards your State Pension.

You will receive a housing element, if you qualify, as past of your monthly UC payment.