Universal credit, and backdate for sons disability payment?

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  • same94
    same94 Online Community Member Posts: 5 Listener

    Hi thanks for responding. This is the letter i received. Im just having trouble making sense of whether it means the date the change occured (jan 2020) or the date i reported it (dec 2022)
  • calcotti
    calcotti Online Community Member Posts: 10,000 Championing
    edited January 2023
    The letter means the change will be applied from when it occurred (January 2020).

    The child disability element should be backdated to when the DLA started.
  • same94
    same94 Online Community Member Posts: 5 Listener
    Thats great news. Thanks so much for your help :)
  • calcotti
    calcotti Online Community Member Posts: 10,000 Championing
    Have you asked about the carer element or just the disability child element?
  • same94
    same94 Online Community Member Posts: 5 Listener
    I've already been receiving the carers element for some time, I just didn't know the disability element was even a thing until recently. Thanks for double checking though 
  • calcotti
    calcotti Online Community Member Posts: 10,000 Championing
    Good.

    It will take time for UC to calculate what they owe you. The will do new statements for all the months affected and add up what you should have been paid. They will deduct the amount you have already been paid and will then pay you the balance.

    When they produce the new statements these will be put on your journal, when this happens you will no longer have access to the old statements so yo7 may wish to download them now so that you can compare them with the new ones if you need to.
  • same94
    same94 Online Community Member Posts: 5 Listener
    That's really helpful to know thanks so much!
  • L_Volunteer
    L_Volunteer Community Volunteer Adviser, Scope Member Posts: 7,922 Championing
    Please don't hesitate to let us know if there's anything else we can do to support you @same94. We are all here for you and listening to you  :)

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