PIP and UC

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I am a full time carer for my severly mentally ill dh. We are in receipt of universal credit, I receive carers allowance and he receives standard rate PIP daily living. He is also in the ESA support group. Our son aged 24 is a full time university student, he does not currently have any kind of part time job. He has been finding it hard to rent somewhere so has moved back home with us. His student maintenance loan has been adjusted to say he is now living at home. However, we were receiving full council tax support but have today received a letter stating we will now have to make a contribution because he has moved back home (I'm assuming student finance must have told them as I wasn't going to notify anyone until tomorrow, the day he would be due back at uni and the first day he has officially moved back home). I am also going to notify UC tomorrow that there is a non dependant adult now living with us. Does anyone know if this will affect our UC payments. Will the fact that my dh receives PIP Daily living component mean we don't get our payments deducted because our son is now living with us? I realise that usually we would get deducted approx £85 per month off our UC award, but will the PIP make any difference? I've been trying to research on various websites but it's all so confusing and id be grateful for any advice.

Apologies if I didn't make it clear but our son is still going to attend university, he's only moved back home as he can't find anywhere to rent near the uni and so will now commute.

The council will need a copy of his university enrolment to take him off the adults list. He will be expected to contribute according to their calculations, he'll be receiving around £4K as a student living at home. I went through this with dd

@anothernamechangeagainsndagain thank you for the reply. Can I just check that you are in receipt of the daily living component of PIP ad I believe it is this that could make a difference?

Council tax support/reduction is council specific. They all have slightly different schemes. If you go on your councils website it’ll list the deductions.

if you want to say the council you claim from I don’t mind having a look for you.

@Hwory thank you so much it's Chorley Borough Council and my house is band B. That's very kind of you as my head is spinning with it all.

@Hwory thats Chorley in Lancashire.

In terms of universal credit, there's no deduction if he's a full time student, unless he does work in the holidays.

I’ve had a look at the scheme - there’s no non dependent deduction if you or your partner is in receipt of care component.

Theres also no deduction anyway if he’s a full time student.

I would just respond to whatever they’ve sent you advising if they are aware of the pip award and also advise that he’s a full time student.

hope that helps x

Have you asked your GP to certify that your DH is severely mentally impaired? That means that he would be disregarded for CT purposes, too. That would give you a 25% discount on the CT. Then you may be entitled to an income based reduction.

It does not effect any PIP at all.. PIP is not means tested.
If you won the lotto and still getting PIP.. legally you would still be entitled to it.

@Hwory thank you so much for taking the time to check that for me.