Hi, my name is charger7! ESA support group and UC50 form

If part of your ESA was contributions based, this will continue but it will revert to New style ESA, you do not have to claim it yourself. You will receive a letter in the post at some point to tell you.

Income Related ESA will continue for 2 weeks and then stop. If all of your claim was Income Related and you haven't worked in the previous 2 tax years you won't qualify for New style ESA.

You won't receive any letters for UC in the post because everything will be through your journal, including any letters. I wouldn't expect you to receive a letter telling you that you've been found to have LCWRA because you were already in the Support Group.

For UC you won't know what your entitlement is until you have your statement at the end of your first assessment period. Assessment periods start on the date you submitted your claim and last for 30 days each month. For example, if you submitted your claim on 15th Nov your assessment periods each month will be 15th to the 14th, with payment date being 21st of every month, unless payment date falls on a weekend or a bank holiday and then you'll receive payment on the last working day before. A day or 2 after the end of each assessment period you will receive a statement on your journal, this will include all the elements you're entitled to, any Transitional Protection you maybe entitled to, as well as any deductions, if applicable. It will also tell you how much will be paid into your bank that month.

As for an award length, LCWRA and Support Group are both ongoing awards and I wouldn't expect there to be any details of award length on any letters you receive. There's no changes at the moment for the WCA and if there will be, it will be quite sometime before any changes will happen, it will not be done overnight.

It's not a new award though because you were already in the Support Group for ESA when you claimed UC.

If it's a letter from ESA that you're referring too then I would expect you to receive one from them with a breakdown of what's included in the calculation but there won't be anything on there to tell you how long the award is for. They never state that on any letter because it's an ongoing award, until a new decision says otherwise. It has no end date.

Your ESA fortnightly amount will be £276.40. The amount deducted from UC for the ESA will be £598.86/month. This is because ESA is a weekly benefit and UC is monthly. There's 4.3 weeks in a month, not 4 weeks. To work out the monthly deduction you times the weekly amount by 52 and then divide by 12.

Labour have said they are committed to the welfare cost savings they inherited from Tories, but that they will be achieving it their own way.

They haven't yet released their plans, as you say Spring is the earliest we can expect to see what direction they want to go.

Please provide a source that confirms what you've written about 8 conditions being targeted?

That sounds to me more like the defunct plans from previous Conservative Government.

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/uk-news/eight-health-issues-dwp-want-30518505

Thank you I've read the article.

Let's see.

The Labour blueprint have identified some conditions driving up the cost of PIP.

PIP is not even an out of work benefit.

There is no suggestion that these conditions will be targeted as a reason to remove PIP from people.

Mental health and seven various MSK conditions are mentioned- that's where the headline 8 comes from!

Speculative, sloppy and ill informed journalism IMO. Article has very little substance.

Perhaps it was an AI written article!

This is one of those articles where you should just pass on by and not read it.