UC managed migration guide

For individuals who are actually working and receiving monthly pay from their job, it’ll be a piece of cake for many of them to budget. They’ll have the required skills, the know-how. For us though Catherine, £800, £900, whatever the amount - it’s simply too hard to stretch it over an entire month . Smaller gaps between pay days, it’s a safety blanket.

£823.41 would be divided ➗by two, into two monthly payments. That would be £411.70. Getting £411.70 twice monthly will be WAY BETTER than just having £823.41 landing in my bank account and it being a case of, here Chris, there’s your amount of cash for the month, up to you now to budget until the next pay day next month. ❌❌👎👎

I came across this comment today Catherine that was posted on the benefitsandwork.co.uk website - it says “I don’t like this monthly payday it’s difficult to budget”. 🗣️🗣️

I really do agree with that comment 👏👏👏👏👏. I can totally relate to it.

The comment above it says - “You can ring up the UC helpline and get paid twice a month can be done because I told 2 friends of mine to do it and it was done with no issue and I will be doing the same when it’s my turn.” 🗣️🗣️🗯️💬💭

I can relate to that comment as well 👏👏👏, I’ll be doing the exact same and asking for payments to be done to me on a twice monthly basis. We are not alone with the limited budgeting skills - many can’t budget. Monthly is fine for those that can do the budgeting but for those that can’t budget, it’s not fine. Know it isn’t to me, ONE MILLION PERCENT.

I’m still being harassed for a fit note even though on my journal I’ve left a message in my journal that I have seeked further advice and that I’m on esa support group and protected by regulation 19 in started my claim on 28th October, I would have thought ESA would have sent across by now ?

I called ESA contribution based number and they said as well you need a fit note because it’s a different benefit, I don’t think anyone knows what’s going on!

does anyone know if you care for someone on UC over 35 hours and don’t claim carers allowance you are exempt from being a job searcher ?

Ah, if this is for New Style ESA then yes it's a separate benefit. That can't be managed through the UC journal. It's telephone contact only unfortunately.

It's not possible to claim Carers Allowance and New Style ESA together. I don't think they'll accept the Carers Element of UC to remove your work commitment on New Style ESA either. However, because you were in the Support Group of CB ESA, that should still entitle you to Support Group of New Style ESA as far as I'm aware.

I can already see problems that are going to cause anxiety and confusion for many people.

Seems I got lucky with the quick message I got, but legacy benefits I would get a letter (or if on phone) explained to me, that certain things are going to happen, and if they dont happen by X date to contact the DWP.

With UC, it feels more like you fill in the information, then it just sits there without a progress guide telling you what to expect, for people who are not reading sites like this one, they wont have a clue what might be going on. I had the message telling me to not worry about the work search, that indicated they already have my info, and another accepting my housing costs evidence, but neither explained anything about the transition process or about any time lines.