Does this Universal Credit amount sound wrong?

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Total amount in UC is £2421.40 a month

Income is £1950 a month, Partner. I’m unemployed as a carer, I get carers allowance

Two kids on higher rates of DLA

Rent is £930

I really, really worry about being overpaid! I wasn’t even aware I could claim it until someone mentioned it at a support group. I am really shocked

We should put all the disabled children and adults into social care then see how much everyone moans when they are having to pay the extortionate fees for them instead the really piddling amounts of benefits in comparison.

I'm a carer for my disabled son. He's an adult. I can't work because he can't be left alone or go out alone. There is no childcare for a disabled adult. I can send him to a special needs club one evening a month, or I'm very lucky his older brother will care for him if I want to go out.

Carer's allowance (£81.90 a week) is taken off Universal Credit as it is classed as income. Yes, I earn £4258.80 a year for caring for my son. Go and find me a full time carer for that.

Fuck these people who have no fucking idea what life is like for carers and think we should just dump our kids in a home and get out to work.

I've been told that any money earned over 16 hours is deducted from your UC

@GivingitToGod whoever has told you that has told you incorrect information. Claimants who have DC on their claim or have LCW/LCWRA receive a work allowance of £404 (if they have a housing allowance) or £673 (if they don’t). Any amount over that has 55p in the £ deducted. Nothing to do with the number of hours.

This thread makes me want to weep, where is your compassion. All this talk of people fiddling the benefit system. This is obviously not the case for the OP and it shouldn't even be mentioned on this thread, she was querying amounts not that she shouldn't be entitled to it. Shame on you!! Would you rather work or look after 2 severely disabled children, no contest. OP must be exhausted and at the end of her tether a lot of the time, she doesn't need snipy comments.

I stand corrected! Thank u

And that's a myth.

Legacy Tax Credits had sweet spots and cliff edges. UC removed them

A UC award starts with Max UC; effectively the amount the law says you/your family need to pay rent and keep body & soul together. If you've nothing else coming in then that's what's paid.

When you earn money from work UC paid is reduced by 55p for every £1 earned. If you've got children or have a health condition affecting ability to work you can keep some earnings before your UC is reduced. UC calls that a work allowance.

I can't say nobody is ever better off on UC and not working but it's vanishingly rare.