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Underpaid wrongly for what exactly? As has been advised on your other thread, official error underpayments are disregarded for the life of the claim and this law would have applied to your UC claim, if you claimed UC from ESA. Do you still have the letter you received when you had the decision for the underpayment? If you do then it should have told you on there if it was disregarded for the life of your claim.

See your previous thread here.

ESA and UC do not communicate with each other so unless you told them or they looked theirselves they wouldn't know you received it.

You will just need to explain where it came from. If you still have the letter you received at the time that decision was made for the underpayment you can send that as proof. If you no longer have the letter and you know roughly when the decision was made you can do a Right Of Access request for information they hold on you. Make sure you request between 2 dates and they will send you all that information. https://www.gov.uk/guidance/request-your-personal-information-from-the-department-for-work-and-pensions#if-you-need-a-copy-of-any-other-information-that-dwp-holds-about-you

No, that's not what I advised. Please have another read of the last comment I made regarding the Right Of Access request from DWP.

all this worry makes us even more ill .

if you can’t find the letters they sent about the backdated payments just explain to them where the money came from or you could just send them the individual statements of the money being payed it by DWP.

when I got my backdated pip I never got any letters about it , I just got a call from a DM telling me how much it was . I know UC and pip are different depts but surely at the click of a button on a computer they’d be able to see what other depts have paid ?

I suppose that’d make it easier for us though and that’s not something they want do. There’s been quite a few people on here recently that have accidentally gone over the 6k without realising , it’s easily done .

There’s been a few people this has happened to you’re not alone, I have bad anxiety as well and all this really makes everything much worse .

Your backdated money for PIP wasn't an official error and for those payments they are different and disregarded for just 1 year.

For official errors then when the payment is over £5,000 they are disregarded for the life of the claim. This then transfers over to UC when you claim that, if you move from ESA to UC.

It's not as simple as just clicking a button to see what other departments have paid someone. Ideally, what should have happened here is Paul should have declared the money they have when they claimed UC and if it was an official error they should have told them what the money was for.

maybe the best thing to do is leave a message on UC journal when any money is given that’s back payment. I know you don’t have to and I know the 12 month disregard but maybe better to save any future confusion with this issue