ESA Payment not been paid

If you are willing to post it with all personal identifying information removed people will be able to comment.

I broadly agree with Alex's reading of the letter.

They have calculated they owe you the money shown for the period shown. However they also have a record indicating that they may previously have overpaid you. If so, they will deduct the amount previously overpaid from the amount now owed and pay you the balance.

Pandapaws said: I haven’t had an increase since 2020

Obviously your income based ESA payment amount is affected not only by your maximum entitlement but also by your other household income.

Do you mind if I ask how much you have been getting?

Pandapaws said:

Also as far as I’m aware I’m not on income related and have never been. And had that confirmed a couple of weeks ago

In which case the reference in the letter to income based ESA is odd (to say the least). If you claimed new style ESA then it is always contribution based and cannot include any income based amounts. If you claimed the old type of ESA a claim for that was for both contribution based and income based ESA at the same time. You might have been entitled to contribution based ESA only because of other household income but if that income stopped could become entitled to income based ESA (but you would need to have told ESA about the changes for them to know this).
When did you claim ESA? 
Is your husband claiming any benefits himself?
Do you also get any PIP?

Pandapaws said:

@calcotti I’ve been on ESA since 2014 which is contribution based. Hubby has had to give up work and has been claiming ESA and PIP since January this year.
sorry I’m also on pip too 

So if you claimed in 2014 you are on the old ESA which is a mix of contribution based and income based. As mentioned previously, your other household income may have meant that you only received your contribution based entitlement. If income has now changed you may be eligible for an income based top up. If you are the only two adults in your household, both get the Daily Living part of PIP and nobody claims Carer's Allowance or the carer element of UC for looking after you then the calculation of your income based ESA would entitle you to a double Severe Disability Premium in the calculation which would give you a maximum entitlement of £316/week from which would be deducted your husband's ESA and other household income.

The period mentioned in the letter you received from 19th January to 15th March is a very precise period. 19th January when your husband's PIP started?

The way I read it is that the £1214.40 may be your income based ESA with the double SDP factored in but doesn't take into account the deduction for your husbands ESA. If that's correct you are possibly actually owed about £700 for that period and would get about £88/week of income based ESA on top of your existing benefit going forward (assuming he is in the ESA Support Group). However that is guesswork on my part.

What has possibly happened is that they started to make a correction to your claim but didn't complete it properly which is why your payment hasn't come through. Unfortunately you aren't going to get clarity until you get more information from them.

Just to explain my earlier post (whilst emphasising that this is guesswork on my part). If, as described earlier, you meet the conditions for double SDP your ESA calculation would look like this (2021-22 rates) if you are both in the Support Group and there is no other income and no capital in excess of £6,000.

Personal Allowance £117.40
Support Component £39.40
Enhanced Disability £24.60
Severe Disability Premium £134.60
Applicable Amount/ maximum ESA £316.00

C-ESA Support Group (Claimant) £114.10 
ns-ESA Support Group (Partner) £114.10 
Net income £228.20  

Applicable Amount £316.00 less Income £228.20
Income-related payable = ESA 87.80/week