When is my first LCWRA payment?

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suesblueeyes01
suesblueeyes01 Online Community Member Posts: 18 Listener
edited October 2024 in Universal Credit (UC)

I ave been on UC since Feb and been awarded LCWRA when does this start has I am due my payment on the 27/10 which will go in on fri but no LCWRA mentioned on my payments I am a bit confused with it all if I am been honest with u all thank u

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  • Kimi87
    Kimi87 Online Community Member Posts: 6,063 Championing

    There is a waiting period of 3 full assessment periods before LCWRA is added to your payment.

    In order to help we will need to know the following:

    The date you handed in your first Fit Note

    Were there any gaps in your Fit Notes?

    The date you were awarded LCWRA

    Your assessment period & payment dates.

  • suesblueeyes01
    suesblueeyes01 Online Community Member Posts: 18 Listener

    thanks kimmy87 for your reply

    My first sick note was 20/2/24 there are no gaps in my sick notes I was awarded LCWRA on the 18/10/24 and I get paid uc on the 27th of each month thanks Sue

  • Jimm_Alumni
    Jimm_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 5,713 Championing

    Hi @suesblueeyes01, welcome to the community 😊 As Kimmy mentions there is a three month waiting period before LCWRA payments begin. They don't seem to mention this very often! Hopefully we will help you figure out exactly what date you'll first receive it.

    I'll just move this over to our universal credit section. 🙂

  • poppy123456
    poppy123456 Online Community Member Posts: 64,463 Championing

    Your waiting period will be Feb/March, March/April, April/May… LCWRA starts from assessment period 20th May to 19th June and first payment will be 27th June. Money owed will be paid as a separate payment to your usually payment date and often takes quite a few weeks to pay it.

    As the decision was made very close to the end of your assessment period, this will be why the element wasn't showing in your statement this month because there wouldn't have been enough of time to include it this month.

  • suesblueeyes01
    suesblueeyes01 Online Community Member Posts: 18 Listener

    thank you for you reply just wondering when my first payment wud be and how much I wud be owed all confusing thanks Sue

  • chiarieds
    chiarieds Online Community Member Posts: 17,132 Championing

    As poppy says, the LCWRA element is due from 27 June, this is an extra £416-19 a month. Check your next statement to see if this extra £416-19 has been included. If so, you should receive 5 x £416-19 = £2080-95 for the earlier months as a separate payment, but this can take a few weeks to be paid. If you're paid £416-19 on the 27th of this month, then £1664.76 (for 4 months) will be owed instead.

  • suesblueeyes01
    suesblueeyes01 Online Community Member Posts: 18 Listener

    Thank u chairieds appreciate your message I shall just after wait and see has nothing on my statement this month as I have checked regards Sue

  • poppy123456
    poppy123456 Online Community Member Posts: 64,463 Championing

    Does your UC include Transitional Protection because you were claiming another benefit before UC?

  • suesblueeyes01
    suesblueeyes01 Online Community Member Posts: 18 Listener

    hi poppy123456 not sure wat u mean about transitional protection

  • poppy123456
    poppy123456 Online Community Member Posts: 64,463 Championing

    Did you transfer to UC from another benefit? If your UC included Transitional Protection then it would tell you on your statements.

  • suesblueeyes01
    suesblueeyes01 Online Community Member Posts: 18 Listener

    no I went straight on UC

  • suesblueeyes01
    suesblueeyes01 Online Community Member Posts: 18 Listener

    hi following on from my last inquire on the scope online community I ave received a letter on my journal to say my entitled is from June to sept from LCWRA but no mention on my payments statement of LCWRA at all and only Uc been paid to me but according to my letter I ave received LCWRA there owe £1819.08 less 1200.28 there ave already paid me so there owe me £618.70 and will be paid to me on mon but I am still confused will I receive another statement regards Sue

  • poppy123456
    poppy123456 Online Community Member Posts: 64,463 Championing

    Were you or a partner receiving any earnings since you provided your first fit note and didn’t previously have the work allowance? If you were then this sounds like it’s money owed from that.

  • suesblueeyes01
    suesblueeyes01 Online Community Member Posts: 18 Listener

    Thank u poppy for replying I don’t ave a partner I am a widow and the only money I was getting was SSP this ran out on the 10/8/24 and I ave gone on my UC statements and some statements from UC ave been changed to a different amount that went in to my bank I just don’t understand any of it I ave no idea totally confused by it all

  • poppy123456
    poppy123456 Online Community Member Posts: 64,463 Championing

    SSP is treated as earnings and if you have no children on your claim you wouldn’t have had the work allowance. When found to have either LCW or LCWRA you also have the work allowance. This means you can receive a certain amount of earnings each month before any deductions apply.

    If you claim for help with the rent your work allowance will be £404/month, if you don’t it will be £673/month. For every £1/month of earnings received over those amounts your UC is reduced by 55p.

    When you don’t have the work allowance there’s no earnings disregard.

    What they’ve done here is calculated what is owed due to this. Very often they do that before adding the LCWRA element. Yes, your statements have changed because they have been recalculated. They will now pay that money into your bank account.

    Now they need to recalculate your statements again to include the LCWRA element. Once this is done you’ll receive another letter on your journal telling you how much is owed and it will be paid into your bank.

    Yes, it’s a strange way of doing it and it would be less complicated if they recalculated everything in one go.

    I hope this helps make things a little more clear.

  • suesblueeyes01
    suesblueeyes01 Online Community Member Posts: 18 Listener

    thank u poppy appreciate your message back it helps a little I shall just after see what happens

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