In this video I talk about the Christmas and New Year payment dates and an update on my next live show where you can ask questions directly, at 7pm on Tuesday 03/01/2023
10.1% in April 2023,if inflation is higher than this in April 2023 then its a reduction in living standards compared to the previous year. Why wait until April 2023 people needed the 10.1% like yesterday! Remember Liz Truss was going to give the rich tax cuts via state borrowing. Happy Christmas everyone and thank you Stu.
Have the very best Christmas Stuart, and everyone else who comes to this channel. If you can enjoy it wonderful, if not as I was for a few years it’s only one day then it over. Best Christmas I had in those days was staying in bed with a book and coming down stairs for tea and a round of toast. Thanks Stuart for all your videos throughout the year. Your a star and I love the hat.
Merry Christmas! Thank you for all your good advice. I have recently had to apply for universal credit and pip and your videos have been invaluable to me in what is an absolute minefield of the complexity of these benefits..thank you and keep up the excellent work you do for all of us! 🧑🎄🎄
Im really finding these videos incredibly useful, as the government arent really giving any information. This Christmas I finally got covid fromnthe DWP office.
Happy Christmas. Your channel is really good! I'm on pip. But its not so bad cause I live with my parents. But people who live by themselves must struggle a lot.
My benefits come to more than I was earning working full time, I run a flat and car and even can save a bit living on my own. I know straight UC is very tough to live on though.
My mate was seriously struggling with Universal credit and she had several medical problems which was blatantly being ignored by UC. I got involved and started researching what she was entitled too. I then got her extra element of UC which was backdated, PIP (higher rate and higher mobility rate) DLA for her autistic son which has helped her so much and stopped the stupid, unrealistic demands set by UC. I was absolutely amazed at how she was never told she was entitled to it by any one.
People are receiving letters people who are classed as disabled 50 to 60 years old at to be forced to go back to work in 2023? Do you know anything about this?
Great advice always, can anyone help me I have severe agrophobia and haven't left the house for nearly 3 years but have been given a tribunal date in January to attend I'm looseing my mind with stress and worry.. I dont know what to do please help
Thank you man, hope you have a good Christmas and the best of health. There is a question I would like to ask at your live if I catch it. if not I'll ask on your next vid.
i have to say this is one if not the most imformative channels on the internet thank you Stuart talking about questions i desperatly need advice from anyone as sadly my wife passed away on christmas eve we were on esa and pip and i myself was on carers my biggest worry is what happens next will i have to claim universal credit my main fear is not having enough money to remain in the house we have lived together in for 37 years if anyone has been through this any help or advise is much appreciated
thank for the vid mate. I just wanted to share something that has happened in my situ. my 14 year old son has come to live with me full time as he and his mum are having to many issues so he wanted to live with me. Im am on UC and pip, because of this change UC have decided that i am no longer legible for the traditional payment so that has now been cut from my UC which is now £165 a month less. so heads up if you find yourself in this position and your expecting money to be able to take care of your children, remember this will not be the case, we are now struggling and will be until he is old enough to leave home or find a job so he can take care of himself. This makes me feel like a bad parent now. happy Christmas everyone x
@@naomidarling1770 yes I get 280 a month for him, but as it goes over a threshold they retracted the transitional payment. so that 280 is now 115. Not really anything else i can do for him. Unfortunately I cant work anymore so i cant even make the money up. cruel world eh. thanks x
@@andrewdawson2460 It defiantly feels very cruel, it has always been, but seem to be getting worse. Hope there is a brighter future. Especially for our children, I have a son with EHCP still at college and as he's no longer 20 have stopped any income, so having to stretch things. I think our Offspring will have less opportunities to live independently compared to our generation. X
One possible question for a future video could be the Warm Home Discount with new eligibility criteria meaning previous claimants are no longer eligible according to the UK government site.
yes the warm home discount has become a scam im with utilita and havent had one for the last three years yet have applied every year and do meet all the requirements
@@charleskay1663 The key change in England and Wales is high energy use. I tried the eligibility checker on the gov site and found the minimum size of property that may be eligible is 100 square metres. Northern Ireland has a different system for Warm Home Discount and Scotland has an eligibility criteria of energy costs being 10% or more of income.
Just being reassessed and worried even tho I have multiple life limiting illnesses! I’m on the traditional benefits and so is my son as my full time carer so we both lost out on that £20 a week universal credit people got through lockdown… even though I’m considered as high risk as it can get. We are both about £1200 in debt now with bills and shopping going up! Went into heart failure two weeks ago been in and out of hospital with pneumonia and picked up norovirus. Would love to not have to worry about it all for a little while but cos I’m young they choose to reassess regularly. Nothing is unlikely to change as my lungs and heart are permanently damaged and my mobility hindered fully by rheumatoid arthritis. It’s exhausting. Thanks for your info x
Don't go in to debt to pay bill or by food. just do what I have been forced to do. and that is starve. I am lucky to have 1 meal a day even a tin of beans. BUT really no one cares that much There will be no way to pay back money if they refuse to give you it to start with. I have lost 7 weeks of money going from WTC to UC. now WTC want back almost £500 for a further back date. this would mean losing more like 11 weeks of money.. Yet still bills wanting to be paid
@@davidsworld5837 I’m on one meal a day too mate I understand, it’s not easy is it? My shopping bill has doubled and most of my bills have recently doubled too, can’t magic the stuff up can we? This coming year will be hard for so many… I wish you all the best with it. X
Sorry mate you were incorrect - Wednesday payments 28th went through on Friday 23rd (for me at least). Both Monday and Tuesday are bank holidays as such if they hadn't paid early we would have received our payments on Thursday or Friday (it takes 2/3 days to go through.). Merry Christmas.
@@SirApexTV-official I got my payment on Friday last week instead of Wednesday this week. Both Monday and Tuesday are bank holidays, they usually make the payment a couple of days before, so if they hadn't paid me on Friday it would be at least this coming Thursday or more likely this coming Friday instead of Wednesday, they pay early never late. Wrong ? Not I.
Stu I’m looking on the gov uk website. And it says 28th payments will be on the 23rd. Except Universal credit. But All other payments will be made earlier. 🤷♂️
@@jamiepoul738 by allowing yourself to put a bit away each time you get paid regardless if thats a fiver a week or 10 pound a month from your UC it all adds up.
@@ChloeASMR91 on £110 looking after a child there's no £5 or £10 too save , if your calling " living life of luxury" turning your gas on once a week to save and eating from food banks ye we all living the life of luxury 🙄
Just found your channel and i`ll be watching more. I recently went on ESA after losing a job (i`d only been there 8 weeks) due to health issues that stopped me doing the job at the required pace. I`m suffering with Cervical Radiculopathy with severe left side impingement thats making my left arm very painful and have left side numbness in my face along with neck pain. I`m 51 and only ever been on (the sick) once when i had covid in 2021. I`ve now been on ESA for close on 2 months and awaiting to see a spine specialist at Salford Hospital. Will i be made to look for work that i can do that doesnt effect me with my current status? I`ve only ever done quite physical jobs warehouse work and Car bodywork/Valeting etc. My current sick note runs out 27th Jan and uncertain how to go about getting another.
Hi buddy, I'm relatively knew to ESA, been on it for about 6 months due to heart condition, so I'll try to help, but please don't take my answers as gold standard! If you're on ESA, you cannot be asked to seek work. You are signed off irrespective of the type of work you could theoretically do. New sick notes can be got from your gp or therapist (OT, physio). They no longer need to sign it (thank god!), so it should be a straightforward case of asking for one and them issuing it to you. Once you've had your formal esa assessment (if possible, I would request a phone assessment if you're immuno-compromised), you shouldn't need to provide sick notes once the system is updated. Hope that helps, and good luck!
If you’re on UC and the awarded PIP lower end and no mobility etc. Are you entitled to anything else and why do you still need to attend Job Centre every 3 months if unwell?
Once your granted pip go to your gp get a fitnote and add it to your UC journal ask to be assessed for Limited capability for work and work related activity they will send you a form to complete and you I’ll be assessed after 3 month waiting period if successful you won’t need to go the job centre anymore and it’s and extra £354 on top of your UC ward also you will need to keep giving fitnote from your GP during the assessment and submit them them Untill they say you don’t have to It’s similar to the pip assessment Good luck
Correct. PIP does not instantly correlate to UC. Different things. I sicknoted from the jobcentre for 6 months as they were slow to do my Work Capability Assessment. I received standard PIP non-mobility and about a month later DWP wrote to say I was on LCWRA. I never took part in anything, all done from GP notes and then had PIP and LCWRA backdated the next week.
Out of interest do you know if the work coach thing the Govt wants to do to get the disabled back working applies to those on full limited capability (LCWRA) as I can't see how that'd work unless voluntary.
Hey @StuartMcGoo my PIP Award Renewal form came yesterday. Merry Christmas to me, huh. What's worse, I had to then spend an hour on hold to tell the DWP since it had arrived late by two weeks I was not going to be able to meet the deadline for returning it. Last time I did one of these forms they insisted on re-assessing me, even though I had developed more diagnosed illnesses. Then took away enough points that I lost my Daily Living. 🤣😡 The Assessor was a two faced little toad. I told him years ago I had a motorbike, so he wrote that I had a motorbike license. I had to sell my bike in 2003 because I was no longer strong enough or able to balance well enough to ride it. I sold it for half its price to a Polish fella. He didn't write that in. Anyway I have no idea what to write that will not trigger a re-assessment. Of course I am desperate to avoid that because I no full well it is just going to result in heaps of stress, arguing and sending the DWP my entire medical records, at least twice. Its a hassle nobody needs.
Did the same to me. Had to have a tribunaral but just as te case was gpinf through t he DWP called me up and told me if I dropped the case they'd reward me what they took along with back payments
@@onekitten9007 yes they usually change their minds, but its a sick game that causes a lot of anxiety and whilst it is being decided you are short of money and getting in debt.
I got my 1st UC payment 30 Dec. to cover till 30 Jan which is 31 days. since WTC stopped 7 Nov. so NO income between 7 Nov to 30 Dec. Now I got a letter from WTC (DWP) demanding payment back for almost £500. saying over payment yet I have had no other Income from UC or any were else for this time period. which means over £1,500 stolen benefits by the government for this time period. They also refused to pay my Rent so that now has to come from my UC. Even though been getting Housing Benefit for years. All i see is demands for money back which is not valid since had no other payment to cover this time period. and I see we are a caring society right now I am £1'000's a year worse off. to a point were I have next to no money left to buy food after paying all the house hold bills
HI, new subscriber. I wanted to ask you about updating my PIPs. I recently got assessed by the job center and they awarded me, where I don't have to work or look for work for 18 months, then assessed again. I have arthritis. I'm on the standard pips, should I send them a copy of the assessment?
Hi there, I would like advice please. To cut a very long story short I have several health conditions each one has stopped me working over the past 6 years. I live with my partner who works so I didn't think I could claim any benefits. I was recently advised that I can put in a claim for pip and maybe universal credit. My partner earns approx£1,700 monthly after tax, once rent and council tax is paid plus bills and food we are left in debt. If I can put in a claim, what do I claim for and how? Thank you in advance
Hello, thank you for this video, one quick question: I am getting paid for PIP and I am on universal credit and also I am on “Limited work capability and work related activities” I have just applied for ESA, my question is, will be required for another assessment and will I need to submit fit to work note? Thank you.
@@stanley95105 Around two million people were affected by the decision not to give the £20 uplift to legacy benefit claimants. In February, the High Court acknowledged that there had been discrimination against people on legacy benefits, but ruled that it was not unlawful. Lawyers representing the claimants say the decision to withhold the uplift from legacy benefit recipients was “unjustified and disproportionate” and breaches the European Convention on Human Rights.
@@Nemo59646 I know this very well because I am in the group that did not receive £20 during the pandemic, and I did not receive £650 from the government, only £150 as a disabled person. That's why I'm asking where is justice.
What rate of pay should I be getting I'm classed as Disabled and on Universal credit and ESA I've applied for Pip but refused 3 times so waiting for court appeal. Really struggling and I don't think I'm getting correct amount?
My wife had her notice from the ESA appeal. Bearing in mind her mobility is so poor she receives PIP her appeal was awarded against her. So the fact that as part of her previous award she was entitled to do 15 hours work on a therapeutic basis, this was used against her. So my advice to anyone thinking about doing therapeutic work don't bother. Mind you it has no come to my attention that anyone between the age of 50 and 60 from next year anyone with a disability will allegedly have a job coach who's role will be to force you back into work irrespective of disability. Can someone confirm or refute this?
Concerned with the comments of people being contacted for work search if they're LCWRA... How can this be right? It's down to a doctor/specialist to decide if you're ok to work not a jobcentre advisor. Just be typical bully boy tactics and tyrants getting people into things they aren't comfortable with. It's interesting to see the direction things are going in with UC. Having previously worked within ESA for a number of years it's baffling to me. Have a search of the cost of DWP clerical errors...... ;)
We are on uc and will enjoy cheistmas in our 2 caravans and going in style in our convertible happy Christmas everyone and are benifits really that bad ? 🎄🎅🤶🙂
Get of benefits benefits are great as its paid for my 2 caravans and my convertible and still pay all my bills and live comfortably not going wirhout antrhing not going hungry and still able to treat myself to everything i want so is it really that bad if this is my life on benefits ?
I worked and paid my taxes and National Insurance until i could no longer and because it is 'Insurance' i made a claim and just like you if you needed to make a claim on your car/home insurance, i would obviously love to be healthy and working again but life can be cruel and your comment doesn't help people who are suffering.
How do you apply for benefits I have a good job pay tax rent and all my bills but don't have any insensitive left the all the benefits seem great sitting at home doing fuck all with sky on the TV can you let me know 🤣
UC UNICREDIT AET is up from 30jan2023 . to £618 mouth for singles . This cause lot issues if you have disability can only managde to work part time / claim UC AS TOP UP if u dont earn min £618 mouth u be back in intensive work search NOT GOOD
