Hi, I had a telephone call with universal credit about work November 16th which I told them I already work part time i care for my partner and I have 2 young boys the youngest being 1 he said I have enough going on and I can’t be expected to look for more as I'm doing enough already , he asked have I looked into carers element so I said I didn’t know it was a thing and he also asked is my partner getting any disability benefit I stated that he gets pip and it went though a long process of applying for pip in march 2022 being declined twice and it went through tribunal and I sent further medical evidence to dwp to which they changed their mind before it got back to tribunal and awarded my partner pip enhanced daily living and mobility in September 2023. They backdated this to march 2022 he then uploaded some documents onto my journal for me to have a read to see if I was eligible it turns out I was eligible and I applied for carers element It was included in my next statement In December, I then asked December 21st after if I could have it backdated then they got back to me on the 8th of Jan stating they’ve sent my request for backdate to the DM , does anyone know how long this would take and what’s the likelihood of having it backdated when would they backdate it too? As they told me to write the date pip backdated my partners money too( march 2022) on the change of circumstances ‘ when you started caring for this person’