We’ve been receiving UC since this time last year. My wages from my two jobs never change but my partner’s do. Most months he works his regular 40 hours but now and again he gets the chance to do overtime and when he does, we tend not to get very much in terms of UC which is fine because obviously that’s the whole point of UC. Anyway, I went to go and check our account today and I can’t access it. It says that between the last pay period, we earned too much to receive any UC this month so they’ve closed our claim. There’s an option to reapply.
I’m just a bit confused why this is the solution to earning more one month? My partner just happened to be able to get a bit of extra overtime last month so I didn’t expect much in the way of UC payments this month anyway but why close the entire claim based on one month? Most other months we are eligible. Do they expect you to reapply every time? I wouldn’t bother reapplying if I didn’t know that on the months where my partner can’t get overtime, we need the help.
Has anyone else had this happen? We’ve had no letters, no warning, nothing at all. I wouldn’t even know had I not gone onto our account. I just found it weird that they completely closed the claim down just because one month out of all the other months we’ve been on UC, we earned “too much” :/