Can you work and claim WTC whilst receiving incapacity benefit?

calleyw

scootw1 wrote: »

IMHO, if you are on IB you should not be working full stop, never mind a few hours a week. The Incapacity benefit is there for people who can't work (hence, incapacitated). This person should be reported and be made to pay the money back (and anyone else who does this).

On IB you are allowed to do supported work. The reason for this is to ease your way back in to work. To see how you cope.

Other wise people would be forced back in to full time work and then have to leave a few weeks later and then have to claim all over again.

But then it is easy to judge when you are not in the situation. I just hope you never find yourself in that position.

Yours


Calley

calleyw

seven-day-weekend wrote: »

Under the rules of Incapacity Benefit, you are allowed to do Permitted Work, but it must be less than 16 hours a week and then if you earn more than £20 you can't do it for longer than twelve months.

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/DisabledPeople/FinancialSupport/IncapacityBenefit/DG_10020667

Don't forget about supported permitted work you can do that for ever.


Yours


Calley

scootw1

calleyw wrote: »

On IB you are allowed to do supported work. The reason for this is to ease your way back in to work. To see how you cope.

Other wise people would be forced back in to full time work and then have to leave a few weeks later and then have to claim all over again.

But then it is easy to judge when you are not in the situation. I just hope you never find yourself in that position.

Yours


Calley

if that was the case then this work should only be allowed for a few weeks. you should be able to see if someone can cope after a few weeks. It doesn't have to carry on indefinitely

calleyw

scootw1 wrote: »

if that was the case then this work should only be allowed for a few weeks. you should be able to see if someone can cope after a few weeks. It doesn't have to carry on indefinitely

This is not the place for a discussion about what you think the systems should be like.

That is the way the system is. If you don't like it then please do feel free to write to your MP.

This is board to help people not whine or moan about the system.

Yours

Calley

GlasweJen

Just a minute, WTC is taken into account for housing benefits (both the new and the old one) and council tax so if she's got £300 a week coming in she'll lose her HB

scootw1

calleyw wrote: »

This is not the place for a discussion about what you think the systems should be like.

That is the way the system is. If you don't like it then please do feel free to write to your MP.

This is board to help people not whine or moan about the system.

Yours

Calley

Fine but it's not the way I think it should be like, it's the way A LOT of people think they should be like. I'll leave this thread alone now. I've made my point.

And for what it's worth, writing to the MP would not not do any good. They never listen anyway.

dn852k4

Further developments.
She is now working on the side again, 3 hours a day.
I think she could be a liar as none of what she has said adds up. If she's working 16 hours she wouldn't be entitled to IB. To get WTC as a single person you have to work 30 hours, unless she's down as being 'disabled'?

clairec79

I think if you have been on IB for over 12 months for a certain period of time afterwards you are counted as disabled

dn852k4

I hope that isn't the case as she's far from disabled with her having to 'blag the doctors' as she puts it.

She's 19 and has been 'too sick' to work since leaving school at 16.

If being on IB for more than 12 months classes her as being 'disabled' how would this affect IB, WTC and the hours she can work?

seven-day-weekend

clairec79 wrote: »

I think if you have been on IB for over 12 months for a certain period of time afterwards you are counted as disabled

No, this is incorrect. IB and Disability Living Allowance have different qualifying criteria.

Someone MAY qualify for both, but not necessarily. IB doesn't 'turn' into DLA.

If you are on DLA (not IB) you can work full-time if you are able. It is to help with the extra cost of your disability.

For example, I knew a man who was paraplegic in a wheelchair and couldn't walk, but he worked full-time in an office and claimed DLA for things like special transport etc.