Carers support payment

[toxicwebb]

Hi everyone, wondering if anyone could help please? I applied for Carers Support Payment as I’m carer for my daughter who gets Child Disability Payment and I’m not working, I’m on Universal Credit. I meet all the criteria etc and applied for it almost 5 months ago (still haven’t heard anything back) but my question is, if I am awarded and I am backdated will Universal Credit take the whole backdate amount or do they deduct monthly does anyone know? I know they deduct the weekly award but I was unsure about the backdate, unsure if I should just cancel the application as I really don’t want it to put me further in financial hardship!

thanks in advance x

Are you referring to if the payment puts you over the UC savings threshold? Which I believe is £6000 or do you mean the monthly income amount?

Ours was backdated but I can’t remember the exact figure, I want to say around £1400 ish and UC didn’t take anything. Coupled with my wages it put us just over the threshold in savings, no deductions that month. By the next month we’d fell below that with bills and usually payments so no payments were reduced or deducted.

We receive DLA for our 6 year old, DH gets carers allowance and UC and I work full time, we’ve never had any deductions from UC

Thank you for replying! Sorry I don’t think I’m making sense in my post lol. I was wondering about the backdate amount, from calculation I was thinking it would be around 4/5k, so I’m hoping they would just deduct that monthly rather than not paying me for a few months?

From a quick google, it seems to be that any deductions are limited to 15% of your UC allowance each month

they deduct the backdate too, otherwise you end up with a overpayment but itll be deducted each month at a percentage not just taken in one go.