Read more about the disabled child addition Your Universal Credit award should include an extra disabled child addition for each disabled child in your household who gets one of the following ‘qualifying disability benefits’: DLA. PIP. Child Disability Payment in Scotland. Adult Disability Payment in Scotland. There are two rates of the disabled child addition. The lower disabled child addition is £158.76 per month. Where a child gets the highest rate care component of either DLA or Child Disability Payment, or the enhanced daily living component of either PIP or Adult Disability Payment, you’ll get a higher addition of £495.87. You’ll also get the higher disabled child addition if your child is registered blind or severely visually impaired. If you have more than one child who qualifies, you can get more than one disabled child addition. You can still get a disabled child addition for a child even if you don’t get a basic child element for them because of the two-child limit. This video is about an extra Universal Credit payment – known as the disabled child addition. Our welfare rights expert Derek explains what that payment is, who qualifies and what you should do if the Department for Work and Pensions refuses to backdate this payment. Read more about the carer element You’ll receive the carer element if you are a full-time carer for someone on a qualifying disability benefit. The standard rate is £201.68 per month. If you and your partner each care for a different disabled person, you might get two carer elements. You’ll qualify for a carer element if you are eligible for Carer’s Allowance or the only reason you are not eligible is because your earnings are too high. You do not have to have claimed Carer’s Allowance. You just need to show that you meet all of the relevant tests other than the earnings limit. In practice, this means that to qualify for a carer element, all the following must apply to you: You must be 16 or over. You provide more than 35 hours a week care to someone who is in receipt of a qualifying disability benefit You are not a person subject to immigration control. You have been in the UK for at least 104 weeks out of the previous 156 weeks and meet other tests linked to your residence in the UK. No one else is already claiming as a carer for the same disabled person. You are not in full-time education. You are also eligible for the carers element if you get the Scottish Carer Support Payment. If you are a disabled carer, your Universal Credit award cannot include both a carer element and a limited capability for work (LCWRA) element for you. If you qualify for both elements, your Universal Credit only includes the LCWRA element. However, if you have a partner, they may be eligible for a carer element instead of you. Our welfare rights expert Derek explains what the carer element is, who qualifies for it and what you should do if the Department for Work and Pensions refuse to backdate this payment.
Read more about the disabled child addition Your Universal Credit award should include an extra disabled child addition for each disabled child in your household who gets one of the following ‘qualifying disability benefits’: DLA. PIP. Child Disability Payment in Scotland. Adult Disability Payment in Scotland. There are two rates of the disabled child addition. The lower disabled child addition is £158.76 per month. Where a child gets the highest rate care component of either DLA or Child Disability Payment, or the enhanced daily living component of either PIP or Adult Disability Payment, you’ll get a higher addition of £495.87. You’ll also get the higher disabled child addition if your child is registered blind or severely visually impaired. If you have more than one child who qualifies, you can get more than one disabled child addition. You can still get a disabled child addition for a child even if you don’t get a basic child element for them because of the two-child limit. This video is about an extra Universal Credit payment – known as the disabled child addition. Our welfare rights expert Derek explains what that payment is, who qualifies and what you should do if the Department for Work and Pensions refuses to backdate this payment.
Read more about the carer element You’ll receive the carer element if you are a full-time carer for someone on a qualifying disability benefit. The standard rate is £201.68 per month. If you and your partner each care for a different disabled person, you might get two carer elements. You’ll qualify for a carer element if you are eligible for Carer’s Allowance or the only reason you are not eligible is because your earnings are too high. You do not have to have claimed Carer’s Allowance. You just need to show that you meet all of the relevant tests other than the earnings limit. In practice, this means that to qualify for a carer element, all the following must apply to you: You must be 16 or over. You provide more than 35 hours a week care to someone who is in receipt of a qualifying disability benefit You are not a person subject to immigration control. You have been in the UK for at least 104 weeks out of the previous 156 weeks and meet other tests linked to your residence in the UK. No one else is already claiming as a carer for the same disabled person. You are not in full-time education. You are also eligible for the carers element if you get the Scottish Carer Support Payment. If you are a disabled carer, your Universal Credit award cannot include both a carer element and a limited capability for work (LCWRA) element for you. If you qualify for both elements, your Universal Credit only includes the LCWRA element. However, if you have a partner, they may be eligible for a carer element instead of you. Our welfare rights expert Derek explains what the carer element is, who qualifies for it and what you should do if the Department for Work and Pensions refuse to backdate this payment.
Go to our templates Backdating Universal Credit payments: template lettersAsk the Universal Credit service to revise their decision not to backdate the disabled child addition or the carer element.Go to templates
Backdating Universal Credit payments: template lettersAsk the Universal Credit service to revise their decision not to backdate the disabled child addition or the carer element.Go to templates
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