UC Assessment period

letitbe
letitbe Online Community Member Posts: 326 Empowering
in Universal Credit (UC)

If you get UC payment on 18th of every month and assessment dates are 12th - 11th ?

When should you reports any changes in savings if they go above £6k ?

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

    Your entitlement to UC is based on your circumstances on the last day of each assessment period, which for you is 11th of every month. However, your UC payments and any other benefits you claim such as PIP/DLA and earnings and not treated as capital until the end of the following assessment period after you receive them. Complicated? Yes, extremely.

    Also, if you received any of the cost of living payments, they are all disregarded indefinitely, unless your total capital dropped below the total amount of CoL payments you received. Then the disregard would end.

  • letitbe
    letitbe Online Community Member Posts: 326 Empowering
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/974372#Comment_974372

    thanks poppy .

    Yes I don’t understand much of the way it all works . I’ll just put in my total when I go above 6k and let them deduct the CoL payments.

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

    You need to tell them about the CoL payments otherwise they won't be disregarded.

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