The DWP has finally started to compensate claimants who lost out because they were moved onto universal credit (UC) before 16 January 2019 and lost their severe disability premium.
Announcing the move this week, Amber Rudd told MPs:
“The regulations that I am laying today will enable us to begin to provide support for claimants who were entitled to the premium and have already moved to universal credit. From 24 July 2019, those claimants will be considered for backdated payments covering the time that has elapsed since their move. They will also gain access to ongoing transitional payments that reflect the severe disability premium to which they were previously entitled.”
The payments will amount to a maximum of £405 a month, an increase on the original figure of £360 a month.
The total package will cost will have cost £600 million by 2025 and will affect 45,000 claimants.
However, the DWP have gone back on a previous undertaking that claimants who were getting a severe disability premium only in their housing benefit would also be compensated.
The new regulations were put through just before parliament closes for the summer recess and without allowing MPs to vote on the amount claimants would receive or other issues.
The regulations also allowed the DWP to start its trial of managed migration of universal credit without allowing MPs to scrutinise or prevent the move.
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He put 2 entries with regard to this and today received this good news.
My advice to anyone in the same position who is suffering because of this unfair system is to do as he did.
Do not give up,keep on at them!!!!
Hi I've been in touch with uc on several occasions regarding this so I've been told payments have started and there is a specialist team working on it to identify those who are due these back payments.
Since I wrote this original post I have done nothing else but ask both through my journal and phone uc on a daily daily basis sending every link I can find online requrequiring about it.
If you need to ask uc anything through your journal regarding this state it through the service issue part to ask them rather than the part work to job coach, payment etc.
You'll see it at the bottom of the list
This carry on for people owed is a service issue as we are due it and it's part of uc to sort this.
Keep at them the more you pester them the more they'll get fed up with you constantly messaging
So far it's working for me as I recieved a message yesteyesterday from a customer complaints advisor telling me she has highlighted my case and sent it to this this specialist team to bring it to there attention more quickly
I'm owed both SDA and enhanced rate since January 8th 8th 2018
Good luck keep on at them
I have been waiting for the tribunal since 2017
I have been told I can not get the severe disability premiums unless I win the tribunal
Has anyone else been through this experience or know how long WCA tribunal wait is
When I make enquiries regarding this money owed through universal credit. Nobody seems to have any answers regarding when this will be paid
All I am told is there is a special team working on finding claimants who are owed this backdated money
Does anyone have a contact number for this specialist team