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Which benefit should he claim?

FayeDownes
FayeDownes Community member Posts: 1 Listener
I’m a care provider for a young man, via  shared lives programme.  He is 23 and attends college.  Yesterday he didn’t receive his income support as they say they will only pay for full time education until he reaches 21. He has a mild to moderate learning disability.  He never received a letter or a phone call to let us know.  He can now claim either universal credit, job seekers or ESA.  No one seems to know the best benefit to claim.  Any ideas as all three is much lower in terms of pay from income support.
any help will be welcomed

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  • steve51
    steve51 Community member Posts: 7,153 Disability Gamechanger
    Hi @FayeDownes

    Good Evening it’s great to meet you today.

    I am one of the Community Champion’s here at Scope.

    We have got a “Benefit Calculater” here on our site.

    This will give us a list of Benefits that maybe available for us to look at.

    We can then go through each one to see what will be the best !!!!!

    Please please let me know how you feel ????

    @steve51
  • poppy123456
    poppy123456 Community member Posts: 53,368 Disability Gamechanger
    edited May 2019
    Hi,

    All areas are now a full Universal Credit area so the only benefit that maybe possible to claim is this. Although i am a little confused why he was able to claim Income Support to begin with, students haven't been able to claim this for a very long time. Are you sure it was Income Support he was claiming and not ESA?

    As he's over the age of 21 does he receive a student loan?

    Does he receive DLA or PIP?
    I would appreciate it if members wouldn't tag me please. I have all notifcations turned off and wouldn't want a member thinking i'm being rude by not replying.
    If i see a question that i know the answer to i will try my best to help.
  • Adrian_Scope
    Adrian_Scope Posts: 10,836 Scope online community team
    Hi @FayeDownes and welcome to the community. :)

    I've just been reading up a little more about Shared Lives, have you been involved with them long?
    As for advising you, if you're able at all to answer Poppy's questions we'll be much positioned to support you! :smile:
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    Scope

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