Incapacity to Employment and support Allowance

Broke_n_Broken wrote: »

Nobody's happy about losing money but since you have a pension income to live on, the government says you don't need the ESA. You have DLA too, so do you need the ESA? You should look to reducing your expenses.
I read on another thread that they automatically put IB claimants on contribution based ESA wrag, so I'm not judging, just asking.
If you feel you should be in support group then you should appeal based on this, though from what I've rad, you only need to be physically capable of doing some type of work to be in wrag.

I think it's important we stick to the focus of getting people their entitlements.. whether they need the money is probably for another place.

The statement you've read regarding transfers from IB is not true... people coming from IB can be placed into either group or denied ESA. Whether they are required to have a face to face medical as part of that assessment for transfer is a question answered on individual basis.

Regarding criteria for support group. Again what you've read isn't technically accurate. To qualify for the support you need to be accepted as having met at least one support group descriptor or special circumstance criteria for support group. Whether you are capable of some type of work is actually totally irrelevant... the work capability assessment at best may carry headline statements like this for tabloid classifications regarding ESA.... but the WCA in reality simply looks for whether statements of disability in various areas of function (and some non function) written into law apply to the claimant. Depending upon which ones are found to apply determines which group, if any, the claimant gets put in.

sorry if i am on the wrong page, im not very computer literate, and not sure how to post on these forums.I have been recieving income support for 3 years, i became ill with fibromyalgia, and pain amplification after falling into a hole at work, (i didnt claim compensation for it).At the moment i recieve £71 income support and an additional £ 30.35 for illness/disability, making a total of £101.35, it is my belief that people are being moved off of income support , and on to esa, and that not many make it into the support group, so the probability is, that i will be in the work related group.But correct me if i am wrong , this is only £71 plus £28.15 work related premium, which will be a reduction of nearly £2 a week, it probably seems trival to some on here, but i live on a very tight budget, as i live in a totally electric house , which though it is meant to be cheap to run , has proven to be extremely expensive , so every penny counts. I dont understand why the rates are lower, can anyone advise please.