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Esa underpaid?

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  • cw18
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    EdInvestor wrote: »
    How much is this rate, could you say?
    £84.50/week according to his bank statements (paid as £169.50 every two weeks)
    Cheryl
  • well i was told you automaticaly qualify if you cant walk more than 30yards without sever discomfat as you score exatcly the amount of points needed to pass and i cant walk 1 step without sever pain.
  • dmg24
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    0121436 wrote: »
    well i was told you automaticaly qualify if you cant walk more than 30yards without sever discomfat as you score exatcly the amount of points needed to pass and i cant walk 1 step without sever pain.

    It will not automatically qualify you, but it may (in theory) give you sufficient points to pass. However, what will happen in practice is a different matter.

    Hopefully it will be fine, but you have to be aware that the system is by no means perfect.
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  • Why is it £100? Is it higher than Incapacity Benefit?
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  • And we always refer to it as 'passing' a medical - if you think about it, it's actually failing a medical!
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  • cw18
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    Why is it £100? Is it higher than Incapacity Benefit?
    The amounts payable for ESA aren't more than IB (unless you get the Support rate from week 14). The main rate from week 14 is the highest rate available on IB -- so the main difference I can see if that you now get this from week 14 instead of week 53

    ESA rates are
    Assessment Phase (first 13 weeks)
    A single person aged under 25: Up to £47.95
    A single person aged 25 and over: Up to £60.50
    Main Phase - Work Related Activity Group
    Single person: Up to £84.50
    Main Phase - Support Group
    Single person: Up to £89.50


    IB rates are
    Under State Pension age
    Short-term lower rate: £63.75 (first 28 weeks)
    Short-term higher rate: £75.40 (weeks 29 to 52)
    Long-term basic rate: £84.50 (week 53 onwards - or week 29 under special circumstances)
    Over State Pension age
    Short-term lower rate: £81.10
    Short-term higher rate: £84.50
    Incapacity Age Addition
    Lower rate: £8.90
    Higher rate: £17.75
    Cheryl
  • zzzLazyDaisy
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    But if you are on long term incapacity benefit and unlikely to work again because of the extent of your disability, you'd be £5 a week better off on the Support Group payment.
    I'm a retired employment solicitor. Hopefully some of my comments might be useful, but they are only my opinion and not intended as legal advice.
  • cw18
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    It would appear so.
    Cheryl
  • dmg24
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    But if you are on long term incapacity benefit and unlikely to work again because of the extent of your disability, you'd be £5 a week better off on the Support Group payment.

    Unless you get an age addition, whereby you would be worse off on ESA. I imagine that it why they have chosen the figure they have, as a middle ground between the equivalent IB rates.
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  • Does anyone know if you have been on incapacity benefit for the past ten weeks, does it change to the new esa allowance after 13/14 weeks or does it stay the same as the old incapacity rules and change at 28 weeks? Im sorry i find this all so confusing, especially with the worry of them trying to get you back to work with this pathways to work when you are ill. Ive never had anty time off work, but am now incapable due to my health. I know its a good thing to try to get people back to work if they are able, but i dont want to be made to feel guilty for being ill. Any help would be most grateful thanks.
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