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Please help!
hello, I wonder if anyone can help me. I moved over to UC from income support in January. I moved over on my transitional protection date as they told me. Waited the five weeks without money and then the amount was short. Which as you can imagine: after five weeks without money was devastating. I called them and they said…
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My experience of Migration to UC from ESA Support Group with Capital and student income
Hello all, I hope you are all able to find some time to enjoy this weather. I wanted to offer my own experiences, and some tips that you may find helpful, in the process of managed migration. First of all an old-school reference here: DON'T PANIC! (of course I did, but having now come out of the otherside of it, I can say…
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Advice please if possible with regards to transitional protection/element…
Hello, Oh well, just when you thought it was going ok, received info from housing benefit that they will help with the transition to UC, I’m assuming that's the two week run on? However, I’ve since received a note in my journal informing me that I’m not entitled to receive help with housing costs as my landlord(private…
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Hi, my name is lou35! transitional protection has been suspended due to not having tenancy agreement
Hi I have just moved over to uc (managed migration, ) from ESA Support Group .and I have been informed by dwp , that my transitional protection has been suspended due to not having an up to date tenancy agreement, local authority had been paying housing benefit for me, direct to my landlord I have showed dwp proof of this,…
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Help on unerstanding.
We recently transferred from Income Support to Universal Credit. Our payment included a Transitional payment of £699. Since then, UC payment went up as did our rent, but our payment has stayed the same. So if I am looking at this correctly, our money will never go up until our TP has gone to 0 which will not only be…
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UC Transitional protection query
My child has just been awarded higher care rate, was previously on lower care. I understand the rate is significantly higher on UC but have come to realise I may not benefit from this as I get a transitional protection bonus will this eat in to this as will almost wipe it out for me or will it be an additional amount. I…
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ESA Migration Help
Hi fellow Scopers , I have been on Income related ESA since aprox 2007 ,had absolutely no problems ...until now. I have been forced (like many)to migrate to UC,So I did,I stopped getting my income related ESA on 27th May ,received my last payment on 9th June aprox , I received a call from my chemist saying I was no longer…
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Transitional protection
My neighbour just got her notification that she has been moved onto Universal credit with transition protection. I have not yet received mine to move from ESA to Universal credit, but I have received a letter today telling me that my PIP expires December 2025 and that I need to process a new claim for PIP. I want to know…
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IsTransitional Protection Unfair for Housing Element of Universal Credit?
Is erosion of "transitional protection" unfair for certain cases? I understand that yearly UC increases come of the protection and a few other things, so you are never any better off in real terms until its all gone. However the housing element erosion seems very unfair. If you have say £200 transition protection, then…
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Asking for more time UC
Hi can someone please tell me if I ask for more time to apply for UC does that mean I will lose my Transition Benefits? I am ESA Support Group. Have PIP. Thank you for your help.
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My Name is Maundyjarvis
I would like to say Hello👋 to everyone.
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Transitional protection back payment
Hi I worked out from what I read on scope and some other sites that I am one of the people due a back payment of transitional protection Having migrated naturally from ESA support group Only problem is the DWP haven't contacted me about this and I have read the payments will be made by August 2025 I have put a message in…
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Understanding rules on temporary going over 16k
Hoping for some advice. Please be patient with me as I'm not a fast learner. We migrated from TC to UC last Aug and are coming to end of 12 months capital disregard as had over 16k in savings to convert loft into sensory space for our Autistic child. However, we have discovered that after we pay for sensory space or…
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Transitional protection payment not paid
Hi. I can see from comments that there are problems with migration transitional protection payments. I have migrated from IB ESA support group with a payment of 244.65 week. I have now been moved to CB ESA , payment of £140.55 a week. My first UC payment is £0. I have not been automatically placed in LCWRA group & haven’t…
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Universal credit calculations with tp
hi I am a bit confused and wondering if one of you lovely people can help me my parents migrated to uc back in April while that was all done and they receive exactly what they were getting before thanks to the tp i am now confused how it works from here as they have just been given a bungalow by their local housing…
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Transitional protection question
hello there 👋🏼 I am currently on PIP daily living and LCWRA. I have got a review next week for the LCWRA. I currently get transitional protection from where I came off of JSA and was migrated over to UC where I got found LCWRA. If I get found to be LCW or deemed Fit for work will I still get the transition protection as my…
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Hi, my name is catlou76!
Hi, I need some advice please regarding benefits and work. I was diagnosed with Fibromyalgua in 2018 after being in a lot of pain for two years and chronic fatigue. I worked full time up until 2019 and then part time up until 2020 and I wasn’t coping with the demands of work, and ended up resigning from my post. I lost…
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Transition protection decreasing !
Hi 👋 sorry to reach out here I migrated from esa SG with SDP in January to uc , my uc first payment was 440 in January February march then 420 in April and may is 410 , I see my TP has decreased from 230 to 190 ! Does this mean that's it now every month my UC is going to be less and less until the 190 TP has gone to zero…
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AET AND TRANSITIONAL PROTECTION
Hi. we migrated from tax credits in march 2024 and were under transitional protection for 12 months. however my earnings were below the aet for 3 months and i had to redeclare our savings etc. which i did and UC was reinstated as they sent a letter via journal stating they had made a mistake as the savings disregard had…
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UC Managed migration - Now receiving LESS than before Migration
Hi, I wonder if anyone can assist please? I'm assisting my sister with her managed migration. She was previously on ESA contribution based support groupl. She received £489 per fortnight. Her Housing benefit was around £107 per week, this was paid directly to her Housing association, her rent was £639 however the deficit…
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Transitional protection
Hi my friend is moving into a property more suitable to his needs due to COPD stage 4 and it has everything he needs on the ground floor. A guy he knows has been homeless sofa surfing and he's tennant 2 on the lease . Both are on transitional cover due to moving from legacy benefits they aren't a couple just sharing a…
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transitional protection
Hi on 2022 I was told my transitional protection was ending as my universal credit went up. I didn't think much of it but today, I got a message on my uc account saying they owe me money From transitional protection from 2022 to 2024, im happy of course but confused as I thought it stopped, but it seems to be stopped…
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UC Migration Payment Issue
Hello my name is Leeanna and I am in the middle of transferring over. I received around £960 ESA every four weeks and now I get £252.20 ESA and Universal Credit is £162.22 every fortnight. It is £828.85 month but based on their calculations I should be getting £1042.38 as I have transitional protection this is my…
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ESA migrating to UC - help with what I'll receive please?
Hello. I'm over 25, and in the IR ESA support group with two disability elements. I also receive PIP. I don't have housing costs. Pic is attached showing what I receive now. I have looked at some online calculators and what I'll receive on UC comes up different each time (including TP) Can someone work out what I'll get on…
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Hi, my name is Mand457!
Hi 👋🏽 I’ve been an unpaid carer for over 25 years, I happy gave up working in 1996 when my son got an early ( before 3 autism diagnosis) I already had an 9 year old daughter who at the time was great but was later diagnosed with schizophrenia in her late teens/20’s . I had never had any mental health issues however I had a…
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Hi, my name is nat2879! Can they stop my transitional payment?
Please can someone help me understand! beginning of this year i got told that i had to transfer over to universal credit, which i have done. Since signing over i had to move due to family issues and my disability getting worse. Where i used to live my rent was £500 a month. My new property is a lot more which i was aware…
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NOT BEEN AWARDED TRANSITIONAL PROTECTION PAYMENT
I was sent a migration notice while I was in receipt of ESA . I made the application so I wouldn’t lose my current benefits. I had a notification today letting me know of the payments will be getting, but looking through these amounts that Universal Credit has wrote,I can see they have miscalculated as I was given…
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Hi, my name is lady87! I just recently made a claim to UC and got notified of my payment amounts...
I just recently made a claim to UC and got notified of my payment amounts today. I am missing my transitional protection payment as they said I am not entitled. Even though i am now £160 worse off. I had the help to claim help line give me a list of calculations, and what they had calculated is correct apart from the TP…
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ESA & Transitional Protection - Crucial Timings?
Hello. Legacy Benefits from April 2025 ESA £92.05 - Support Group £48.50 - Severely Disabled Premium £82.90 - Disability Income Guarantee £21.20 = Weekly Total £244.65 (£978.60 every 4 weeks/28 days) Waiting to be managed migration to Universal Credit and would be eligible for Transition Protection. Universal Credit…
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Jus feels wrong. Can I appeal this? Losing transitional protection, moving from Wales to England
Hi, I have just been on the phone to the U?/C helpline and was told to send a journal entry to my case manager to explain the situation as soon as possible. I have just migrated from ESA where I received the Severe Disability Premium. This has been brought over to U/C as a transitional payment. However I am about to move o…
