My monthly UC payment has dropped

swb64
swb64 Community Member Posts: 6 Listener
in Universal Credit (UC)

Hello, hope you can help. My transitional protection had dropped from £203 in April to £176 in May to now £146 in June, I understand the transitional protection will drop but I thought the overall award should remain the same until the protection is £0.

The journal messages just dont seem to make sense.

Could anyone please let me know more on this?

My rent also increased so they said that will also cause the transitional payment reduce, this means over the next few years my award would reduce by over £200 at least.

Everywhere I research are saying my award should remain the same overall until the transitional becomes £0 and I understand that.

I also get the lrcwa or whatever its called, Ive been on long term for over 16 years. This just confuses me.

Thanks.

Stuart.

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  • Kimi87
    Kimi87 Community Member Posts: 8,762 Championing
    edited June 4

    For your May statement the rent increase applied which reduced your TP (this is the increase is backdated to the start of Assessment Period you reported the change in), and then in June the annual uprating increase has applied reducing your TP further (needs to be a full AP after the rate went up to start being paid at the higher rate).

    With my AP of 26th-25th, I don't see the April annual uprating until June 02 payment. I still get 12 payments at the higher rate, I just have to wait longer for it to start.

    Does your rent get paid directly to your Landlord?

    In those cases the overall payment does remain the same, after TP adjustments the new make up of the award means more goes to LL and less goes into your bank account. So it looks less.

    But the overall amount should remain the same if you add the two figures together.

    The same happens to people whose rent doesn't go directly to LL, but it's less noticeable because the amount going into their bank account doesn't change.

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