
Originally Posted by
nukecad
Those figures threw me a bit until I realised that this was a couples claim, Support Group with EDP.
Here is a comparision of what you were paid and the standard ESA rates for that year:
(ESA Personal Allowance for a couple + Support Group + EDP for a couple).
from 29/11/2012 to 10/04/2013 £170.75 (Calculated standard ESA 114.45+34.05+21.30 = £166.80) (You got a TA of £3.95)
from 11/04/2013 to 09/04/2014 £170.75 (Calculated standard ESA 112.55+34.80+21.75 = £169.10) (You got a TA of £1.65)
from 10/04/2014 to 04/03/2015 £171.80 (Calculated standard ESA 113.70+35.75+22.35 = £171.80) (No TA, the ESA had caught up).
from 05/03/2015 to 08/04/2015 £171.80 (Calculated standard ESA 113.70+35.75+22.35 = £171.80)
from 09/04/2015 to 06/01/2016 £173.65 (Calculated standard ESA 114.85+36.20+22.60 = £173.65)
So you had a TA for the first 2 of those so your payment of £170.75 was more than the standard ESA rate, then the standard ESA rate caught up on 10/04/2014.
That seems fine, so long as your IB had previously paid £170.75.
That means you had an initial TA of £3.95, which reduced the next year to £1.65 in order to keep your payment fixed.
I'm not sure why the next year has been spilt into a 47 week and a 5 week period. (You'd expect a full year April to April).
Maybe you had been having a MR or appealing an assessment decision?
But the ESA rate is correct even if it's odd splitting it like that.
Then 09/04/2015 to the end is the standard ESA rate.
So from that it looks as if you are not owed anything, as long as your IB was £170.75 before you transfered to ESA.
However (by working backwards) if your IB payment had been £175.70 then I calculate that the backpay due to you for those 2 years (29/11/2012-09/04/2014) would be £186.47. Give it a bit of rounding to make the £186.50.
(I won't put the calculation here, it's complicated - but interestingly £170.75 looks like a typo of £175.70).
BUT if your IB had been £175.70 then the TA should not have ended when it did, and indeed should still be in payment.
So they would owe you more.
I think that you need to phone them and ask for a detailed calculation of just how they have worked out the backpayment.
They may have only adjusted for when the TA was in payment, giving that £186, and not taken into account that it should (probably) still be being paid in 2016.
(I made the same mistake at first, until I noticed that a TA of £175.70 would still be in payment).
Without knowing exactly what your IB/IS payment was when you transfered that's about as far as we can go for now.
(I suspect that you had a combined IB and IS payment of £175.55, but that's only a semi-educated guess).
That's been an interesting couple of hours on an otherwise dull afternoon. (But I think I'm ready for a pint now).