Transferring to Universal Credit and backdated Carer's Allowance

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Hello, I have to transfer to UC by the 5th of February and I am waiting to hear about backdated Carer's Allowance that I should be owed from September 2023 (and ongoing). I know it can take a few weeks to process the Carer's Allowance claim. If I get awarded a lump sum of backpay once I'm on UC , will this count as income on UC, even though most of it will be backpay from before the 5th Feb when I move onto UC? Thank you.

Any period covering from the start of your UC claim onwards will cause an overpayment of UC, but any back pay of Carers Allowance for a period that pre-dates the UC claim won't affect anything.

For example:

If you claim UC on 25th Jan and then on 30th Jan you get back pay of Carers Allowance from 1st Sept, then only the CA for the period 25th Jan onwards impacts UC.

Just to add that carers allowance is classed as income on uc and they will deduct it pound for pound on your award. You can ask them for the carers element to be added but this is only £185 a month

@8dayweek thank you, that's what I was hoping but not expecting.

@Sprinkles211 thank you, I think it's still worth it as you get your NI paid? But I'm sadly unsurprised that they claw it back.

They take carers off you penny for penny but then you do get a 185 caring element for being a carer

im currently awaiting a back pay for child flat from September

this means uc will of over payed me and I’ll be in ‘ debt ‘ with them
but then this means they also owe me carrrs element for the last few months so that will make the debt less and they will take money out of my money monthly to pay back

@Claudb98 thank you for this - I got the backpay recently and thought I'd have to pay a fair amount back but with the £185 caring element it shouldn't be as bad. I hadn't factored that in.