They tend to pass underpayments to debt management for any overpayments first. They should have let you know via your journal, check the letter they should have uploaded. CA is totally seperate so you need to contact them as UC has no input with them.

A lot of the review teams are new and don't fully understand what they are doing, they basically follow a script/to-do that tells them what action to take. It could just be an error on their part or an old change that had been started and has just sat there unnoticed.

If it appeared in your todo list, they must have started it for you, you should have the option to cancel the change, normally at the bottom of the page, just click on that and then send a journal advising there hasn't been any changes to your health.

Sorry missed the LCWRA bit, no you won't get the CE then. CA can open other doors for you such as free carer tickets on days out etc. But the choice is yours on whether you continue with it or not, personally I would. Not sure why it's asking about your health, have you clicked the wrong change of circs tab? Neither the caring or DLA change should bring this question up. Caring is just under caring and all it should ask is who do you care for, is it over 35 hours per week and do they receive a disbility benefit. The DLA change shuld be under children, which again shouldn't ask about your health as it is relevant. Have the review team started a change for you at all?

So you can either continue to claim CA and also claim the carers element of UC, however the CA will be deducted in full from your UC or you can cancel CA and still claim the carers element of UC. Either way you will be classed as a carer and have no work related commitments for UC. In regards to PIP, just because you are caring for somebody, this does not mean your PIP claim will end or even be looked at, UC agents have no control over PIP and vice versa PIP has nothing to do with UC. There is also no definition of caring in law and many couples claim CA for one another and still claim PIP in their own right, without any issues, slighlty different to your scenario but is still relevant.

Under UC there is no actual need to claim carers allowance, as long as you declare that you are caring for X for 35 hours per week and confirm they are in receipt of AA on the claim, they will verify you as a carer and you will then not be subject to the MIF, but will stil need to decalre your income and expenses each assessment period. This is because as a care, you are not expected to be available to work or have to look for work.

Any benefit awarded can be spent on whatever you like. Care awards are intended to support costs with extra care anyway, but you can spend it however you like. There is also no definition of care and the government would rather pay the poxy carers allowance amount, then pay for actual paid carers as it's the cheaper option.

If it's part of the managed migration to UC, savings over £16k are ignored for the first 12 months of the claim. See /assets/static/govuk-opengraph-image-dade2dad5775023b0568381c4c074b86318194edb36d3d68df721eea7deeac4b.png Tax credits and some benefits are ending: move to Universal Credit - GOV.UK WWW.GOV.UK If you have received a Migration Notice letter, then some of your existing benefits will be ending soon. You need to move to Universal Credit.

I do this daily in a jobcentre, people rarely get to speak with a case manager, job centre included. We get 3 or 4 queries a week like this. What I have posted is what will happen, hence why I said drop into local job centre. All national telephony will do is say send a journal message for you case manager, who will never pick up as journal messages are low priorty.

It is and isn't straight forward. You should not claim as a couple, if you are not a couple. You will both need to provide evidence of no longer being together amd potentially need to be interviewd by a compliance officer, just so there is a formal record moving forward. This isn't something new, especially with the current financial crisis. National Telephony will not be able to assist and it is highly unlikely you will get through to an actual case manager. If in doubt drop in to your nearest job centre and make sure you have mentioned it in your journal, just in case it triggers something, later on during the claim. In fact you will probably be told to send a journal message when you call the 0800 number.

So you took an advance but don't owe this debt? Was the advance paid off? It looks like your previous claim, where you took an advance has been closed, as that's the only time a new claim or budgeting advance gets passed to debt management. Normally it stays on your claim and repayments start straight away from any ongoing award.

SDP has to be in payment the month before a natural migration I think it is, so highly unlikely you will get it, as it doesn't exist under UC, unless applied on migration. Technically, your partner can still claim CA as long as they are still offering care for you. They do not need to live with you. If she ends the CA claim, unless she already has LCWRA, she will then be expected to look for work.

If you haven't already done so, send in it in with a covering letter, but also call them, they will either treat it as a late return and honour the original claim date or treat it as a new claim following receipt of the claim form.

It wouldn't/shouldn't be treated as income, as you are selling personal items and not running it as a business. You can sell as many personal items as you like.

Yes they can mandate you to attend various courses if they feel the need. They should have given you a to-do or a letter advising you have been mandated to attend and will face a possible sanction if you fail to engage. Normally happens between the 6 - 12 months of claim starting. It would also count towards your expected hours of job searching you would have agreed to on your claimant commitment.

Only somebody from the DWP can you tell what they want completing and sending back.

Did you claim Tax Credits prior to claiming Universal Credit, as it's probably a part year overpayment, which is a standard issue that arises. However Debt Management is the only team that will have access to what the debt is for. Raise a complaint online and ask for an escalation. The rest of the DWP have no access to the debt system, so will never be able to help you.

You also need to read up on permitted expenses as UC rules are different to HMRC rules. Is it a hackney taxi or private hire? Hackney allows all vehicle expenses to be claimed, however a private taxi will only allow the mileage to be claimed, which includes a figure for your insurance etc. Once the income and expenditure has been declared, you can then bank any amount for your holiday pay, but be careful not to go over the savings threshold for UC. See How to report your earnings from self-employment - GOV.UK WWW.GOV.UK

It should/will be a straightforward no, as legislation doesn't allow for it. To be entitled to carers allowance, there needs to be a qualifying disability benefit in payment, for the person the care was provided for. If no disability benefit claimed, then there will never be an entitilement to carers allowance. There is other criteria as well, but if you don't meet the main one, the rest don't matter.

Remember, it's not your work coach doing this, it comes from ministers and work coaches have to do as directed on a national level. Most work coaches agree that telephone appointments are just as effective as face to face appointment, but the higher ups won't hear of it.

Hmm I would say your are being lied too. Current guidance is based on a ladder approach of current priorities. Top of the ladder is 18 - 24 and then filters down to 25+ caseloads. Our jobcentre is inviting people for a face to face, but then changing it if we get a request for a phone appointment etc. Video calls are now a thing as well, but slow rollout and not too many work coaches want to do them.

You may be able to do a dual claim to ESA, if you meet the elgibility criteria. If not, just report a health condition on UC and they health journey/work capability process should start for you. Exactly the same thing, but you just stay with UC. Not much difference other then stamp paid.

There is no clinicaly vulnerable anymore or extremely clinically vulnerable, according to the government, as anybody in those catagories should have been vaccinated. Staff feel the same as the OP, especially those with similar health conditions. Staff should currently only be asking people who would benefit from a face to face appointment into the ofice, however the steer from on high, is to bring everybody back into the office. The current priority is 18 - 24 for kickstart.

When not just complete a change of name deed and make the name change "official", change all of your ID over if required and then this should solve the issue. The difference when using a surname following marriage is totally different to what you are referring too. A marriage certificate is the legally certified document that shows both "legal" names a married woman can use. What you have is an assumed surname with no current legal standing and is just an AKA which has no legal basis. It could also cause issues should you need to claim benefits.

They are not being stubborn, legislation states what evidence they are allowed to accept, which is what they ask you for. They cannot accept anything else. Everything that happens within UC is done because of the actual legislation, there is no grey, just black and white.