Hi, I recently got round to filling in the application for attendance allowance for the person I care for, the letter came last week and they have been awarded it from November last year and have been paid their backdated attendance allowance so that’s all ok. I then logged into my universal credit account and it shows I am now getting carers element which is great but I thought surely that should be backdated to November, I searched online and a site about caring for children says people can get carers element backdated so I assume it will apply to caring for adults also but don’t know where to start, I just wondered if anyone has had success with this before. Thanks for reading 
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