ESA To UC Migration

Quick update...

I received a message on my journal asking me to confirm the amount of rent my landlord said I was paying, which I did.

Yesterday I also received a letter from the council to explain that as I had now moved over to UC I would get a two week run on of them paying my housing benefit after which UC will pick up the payments.

I will update again as things proceed.

Thanks again for all your help, it is appreciated.

All the best,

Keith

Well things have gone wrong, my hope that things were going to carry on going OK have been shattered.

They informed me today that all they were going to pay me is £400 a month

They have totally ignored the fact that I should be getting the Limited Capability for Work-Related Activity element.

They have totally ignored the fact that I am entitled to transitional protection.

I have written the following in my journal, apart from this I don't know what else to do?


Hi, the payments you are going to get me are wrong.

I was in the Support Group for ESA, and I should be awarded the Limited Capability for Work-Related Activity element when I moved to UC.

The Limited Capability for Work-Related Activity element should apply as soon as my UC claim starts, and I should not have to wait to receive this element.

I am also entitled to transitional protection so my payments should not be less on UC and should be equal to what I received on ESA.

Please be aware that I am migrating from ESA and that I am therefore not required to provide fit
notes or undergo a WCA. Instead, the law requires that my WCA status for ESA must be
automatically transferred to my UC claim.

For further details, please see Regulation 19 of The Universal Credit (Transitional Provisions)
Regulations 2014; Regulations 39 and 40 of the Universal Credit Regulations 2013; the Advice
Guide for Decision Makers, Chapter M6: Effects of transition to UC.

I am really starting to panic now.

It say's on my statement that I only have a certain amount of time to challenge the decision, would my journal entry count as that?

How would I find out who the area manager is and how would I contact them and what should I say?

I did not take any kind of advance and the money I do have is fast dwindling/running out as I pay my bills etc.

By my reconning they will already owe me £733.95 by my first payment date.

I can feel myself slipping into a spiral over this

OK I have had a reply but I don't buy it.

What am I supposed to do in the mean time? how am I supposed to continue to pay my bills and feed myself?

This is what they said:

My apologies for any inconvenience caused, however, we are still waiting on all the information regarding yourself to be sent from ESA. Once we have this information, we will recalculate your UC award and you will receive any Transitional Protection/LCWRA you may be due.
Unfortunately, I am unable to give a timescale for this.