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1 year 1 week ago #305195 by Vicks123
I made a total boohoo. I got the migration letter last date was 28-6-25 I thought I get my payment and apply 25 th June. Today as I was filling a little bit at a time I thought I’d upload my id I accidentally pressed accept claimant commitments which put my uc through. I’m so annoyed that I was going to receive my esa and housing benefit on Fri 6-6-25 and had I done it after, but no my mind wasn’t working and it’s gone through. Now my question is
Would when I get my payment this Fri be the last, and then I’d have to wait 5 weeks for the proper payment ?
Also my rent increase is on the 1 July would this fall into the months assessment period for me to keep my TP from the esa support group?
I am so annoyed but I was so worried I’d miss the deadline that I thought I’d do bits and it would at the end stop and ask for whole review of what o have said and then to click submit but it didn’t.
Please could you answer the above questions I’m panicking now as I have made the claim and not worked around the payment

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1 year 1 week ago #305196 by David
Hi S123

If you submitted your UC claim today then your Assessment Period runs from the 3rd of the month to the 2nd. So you are just within the dates for your rent increase not to affect your TP.
I don't know about your Friday payment.

David

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2 days 9 hours ago #314278 by john
Hi David,

I have jumped in here, as my partner has the exact same problem. She would have actually paid rent, [well housing benefit would have] as follows..

1, End of February, rent paid £100 = Total benefits £1000
2, End of March, rent paid £100 = Total benefits £1000
3, 1st of April, rent increased to £110 from that date. [social landlord]
4, 10th April, Clicked on "Submit" to start her "migrated" claim, so her assessment period would be from the 10th April till the 9th March??
5, 17th March [ish] her first payment comes. = still £1000, meaning she is £10 down as when they worked out the TP they used the "old" rent figure and not the new one, from the 1st of April, 10 days before her claim.

Have the DWP got it wrong here?? I think so, but they will NOT budge on this..

Her social worker has been onto them continuously for 14 months now. She has even sent in the correct figures with the workings out of how it was arrived at.

The DWP do not care, they either do one of two things;

1, send back this as a reply; "Refer to earlier calculation"

2, OR, say that they have sent this to a "specialist team" but they never reply.

It has been pointed out to them that the law states that nobody should be worse off as a result of migrating, but my partner was/is, by the amount of the rent increase. They will NOT budge though..

What do you think??

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1 day 3 hours ago #314291 by David
Hi john

Her first UC Assessment Period would be the 10th April to 9th May. The rent increase was before the start of the UC claim so you are correct in saying there is a £10 error.
Rent details are forwarded by the Social Landlord to UC via the Landlord Portal. Maybe the landlord has input the wrong dates? How responsive is your Housing Association and could they check the dates for you ?

David

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