Universal credit and signed off work

[Childbeinganiggtmare]

Posting here for traffic as desperate help needed. I’m currently caring for a dying relative, am signed off work for another 5 weeks yet. UC have now put me in the all work related group, is this right? I’m shaking, feel sick and am crying here.

Are you being paid while signed off work?

sorry I think you need to give more information

Just tell UC what’s happening, and whether you’re to be paid whilst off sick. Whether sick pay or wages - cover your back if they were to query - and adjustments to UC benefit adjusted accordingly

Op if you are on UC you have to be looking for work.
I think you can have an interview with them and they can say you are not fit for work and you would still get UC.
Sorry my post is not a definitive answer but please ask your work coach about this. Sorry you are having such a hard time my lovely but UC is a mine field I hope someone else can give better advice my lovely

Hand in sicknotes or tell them I have underlying entitlement to Carers Allowance as you spend over 35 hours a week caring for the person.

If your relative is on certain benefits, then you can claim as a carer and you would not be required to look for work.

Sorry. Didn’t mean to drip feed, just in a state. So I work part time, employer has been paying me. The person I care for is 6 months into a 6 month life expectancy, I spoke to carers allowance who told me it wasn’t worth claiming as they would probably have passed by then. The person I care for gets attendance allowance which would qualify me for carers. I am honestly in no state to work

Put a claim in anyway. They may only live a few weeks, or maybe several months.

You don't even need to have to get carers. Report the change
Caring
Caring for 35hours a week for someone who is in receipt of attendance allowance.

That'll move you into no work related requirements

As @Hasenpfeffer says.
Report a change in circumstances that you are now caring for your relative. You should be put into the no work related requirements group and should have a carers element of £168.81 a month added to your UC maximum (which may be reduced depending on your earnings).

www.entitledto.co.uk/help/caring-overview-universal-credit#:~:text=If%20you%20and/or%20your,money%20called%20the%20Carer%20element.