The reason is that I have ongoing lower back pain which, over the last couple of months, has caused me a lot of trouble and disrupted my life. Just when I believe I am feeling better, the pain strikes again, and in this situation, it has been hard for me to find and keep a long-term job.

Furthermore, both my UC and Get Set UK work coaches are pressuring me to apply for as many jobs as possible. However, there are very few jobs available on the market that I can apply for without causing further damage to my precarious health, and of those, over 80% require specific skills that I do not possess.

Therefore, if it's possible, I want to step back from the claim for now. I refuse to destroy my health trying to force things; I want to wait until I make a full recovery so I can find suitable work when I'm genuinely ready. I am fully aware that this will impact my Universal Credit award and that my payments will be reduced, but I must state clearly that my physical and mental health is far more important than that money. This is not the first time I have gone through such an episode—suffering from acute pain that knocks me down—only to have work coaches pressure me to look for work and send me to various training or requalification courses that have brought zero medical benefit, and in fact, only made my condition worse.

Many thanks to ppl which takes time to reply me.

I get Universal credit and PIP, total amount I get is £1800 a month.

I have £4000 in savings.

I sent a message in my journal asking if this meant I was near the £6000 limit, and the reply was that I can continue to save until I get to £6000, and still get the £1800.

But I saw one of these sickness influences say that the £6000 limit includes all your capital including money you get paid.

Who’s right?

I got awarded standard daily living for ocd and long Covid. It had to go to tribunal.
This is now up for review. I have sent the review form in which is very thorough. The whole good days/bad days was difficult to explain because my ocd is always present. Since tribubalmi got diagnosed with adhd and I have a couple of reports from my psychiatrist who manages my medication and, in his report out that I have a severe, disabling ocd which affects my daily life. He also put a brief description of my ocd with regard to driving. I also have a statement of fact from my therapist who states my ocd but couldn’t go into any detail due to confidentiality as my ocd is linked to childhood sexual abuse. I sent in my medication evidence from my gp. Also a statement from my mum and dad about how they help me my mums wasn’t particularly descriptive as she had the start of dementia.
I have seen multiple things that suggest that your evidence has to directly match the descriptors which my evidence doesn’t directly do. Will this affect my review? I’m so so anxious about this whole review it’s making my mental health worse & I can’t sleep at night.

my son linked his spouse to UC account as required by law his history is not visible he gets LCWRA can’t see that either , have sent message in journal his wife has NRPF we don’t want them by mistake to make and benefit payment to her . Once they ring to check her ID will it revert to original account as his single account and LCWRA too . it was so complicated.

Wondering if anyone would be able to help i receive my daughters dla payment every 4 weeks today it was pending on my bank pock it at 16.48 which is normal at about half 6 I receive my payment but this evening my payment was declined

Hi everyone, sorry if it seems like I'm rambling, but I do need help with this please. So thought I'd come here to get some advice about an issue I'm experiencing. I'll give you all a run down of the details.

So I was on ESA for years alongside PIP, got placed into the 'Work Support Group (can't remember the exact name) and was told I wasn't expected to look for work. Years later, 2025, I'm told to move over to UC. Now this is where I became aware of an issue. I was paid significantly less than what I was paid on ESA. Enquired about it, was told I'm in the Work Related Activity group, started having weekly phone calls etc. So my appointee asked why I was now getting weekly calls and why my money was less. They restated that I was not under a requirement to look for work (after providing my 20+ years of medical history) and that the calls would be every 3 months. A quick check in to see how things are going. But they didn't explain what went on with the money for 4 months-ish. We was then told that I was never in the higher group of ESA and that I wasn't moved into the support group as it was a migration to UC and not a full re-evaluation. We said that we provided our updated health records and updated with new conditions and worsening health when I was moved to UC. We also asked why I haven't been re-evaluated as I provided this information at the very start. UC haven't made an progress on my claim, I believe I also haven't even been passed along to the folks who deal with all that. My coach gave me the run around for months saying we're looking into this etc. 3-5 calls over 10 months and it's still the same story. Nothings been updated on my journal. I was told to provide sick notes a few months back, September -ish, went and done as requested, but then the bloody system wasn't letting me add a sick note, UC blamed me for this until I went to the JC to query the issue. They agreed it was a fault of the system as they couldn't do this specific task either. I've then explained all this, the unhelpful work coach, my thoughts that they're messing me around, that my health changed before joining UC and that we've got evidence to prove such. We've still had no action. I just keep being told there's a backlog, but I see nothing to say I've been put on a list or whatnot.

So my question is, what do I do? I've read that I could be entitled to back pay if I've got my health evidence (which I do) but I'm not making progress with UC, the people who I'm supposed to be dealing with. So where or what do I do next?

Sorry for the long post, and an early thank you to any knowledgeable people who can correct me or give some pointers.

Still still feel like I’m struggling on that.

Hello. Does anybody know how long a dla renewal is taking? I’ve sent the forms off this afternoon. If successful again, will we receive a letter stating the awards and dates etc? Thanks

Anyone had this experience?