Hi Brian, that’s very informative, thank you. After your two week run on of CBESA, did you get your new style ESA a fortnight later? Or did you have to wait until your first Universal Credit payment was calculated? And yes, David. Those of us on CBESA are effectively ‘worse off’ than those on IRESA only, because they get a two week run on of their IRESA which is not counted as income, and not deducted from their first universal credit payment. In the guide it says: “Note: Child Poverty Action Group have recently highlighted a potential equality issue for people in this category. Someone who has irESA only would have a two-week run-on of their irESA and this would be ignored as income for Universal Credit. Someone who has contributory ESA with a top up of income-related ESA would have a similar two-week run-on, which would also be ignored as income. However, the managed migration rules allow for New Style ESA would be deducted as income from the first day of the claim. So, someone who has irESA only would be better off in their first month on UC by the amount of the two-week run-on. Someone who has cbESA in their award would only be better off by the irESA top up part of their ESA, which will be less.”
