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Enhanced Disability Premium
Good afternoon.
I have a client who has a dual ESA / UC claim. She used to get Support Component, Severe Disability Premium & Enhanced Disability Premium on ESA. Her daughter moved in to care for her (receives Carers Allowance and Element of UC) and rightly she lost her SDP but she has also lost her EDP. Is this correct? As she is still in receipt of the correct rates of PIP etc can her EDP continue?
Many Thanks
All of the premiums, including the SDP and EDP, are only ever included in old-style income-related ESA. As your client is getting UC alongside her ESA, she will be on new-style contributory ESA which will never include premiums. So she will have lost the EDP whenever she claimed UC.
The general position is that someone who receives the support component and EDP but who does not qualify for the SDP will be better off on UC than old-style ESA because the LCWRA element (£354.28 pcm) is more than the support component and EDP combined (£252.85 pcm).