Benefits Question

Mark2024
Mark2024 Online Community Member Posts: 7 Listener
in Employment & Support Allowance (ESA)

Hi Team

Hope you’re well


I work and live with my mother as well as look after my mum who’s on ESA and PIP as she suffers from a mental illness which incapacitates her in many aspects. She has a doctor who sees her at home every year.

She receives ESA ( income related) and PIP, and I wonder if we were to move to a new house and leave the council home and I acquire my own place , would she lose her benefits.

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  • OverlyAnxious
    OverlyAnxious Online Community Member Posts: 5,778 Championing
    edited February 2025

    *Edited - Misread the question initially.*

    If you move out and leave your Mother in the council house, that won't affect her ESA or PIP.

    If all of you move to a private home, including her, that also won't affect her ESA or PIP.

    Her income related ESA will be migrated to Universal Credit at some point this year.

  • Mark2024
    Mark2024 Online Community Member Posts: 7 Listener

    Thank you so much @OverlyAnxious . There was someone on the ESA line who said if mum moved address and because she’s on the ESA income related she would lose it because I work , but she didn’t sound too convincing which necessitated that I look into it further.

    Much obliged

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