Incapacity Benefit

tinah29

HI all could some one help me out please i been off work for year and a half now when i was 1st off i try to get Incapacity Benefit they said i had not pay my stamp so they been paying it for the last year or so couls i try agen to see if i could get it now thank you for reading this Tina

richard9991

tinah29 wrote: »

HI all could some one help me out please i been off work for year and a half now when i was 1st off i try to get Incapacity Benefit they said i had not pay my stamp so they been paying it for the last year or so couls i try agen to see if i could get it now thank you for reading this Tina

NO you have to pay class 1 ni stamp as an employed person

sfmedusa

There is a difference between an NI stamp as paid by the Government if you are on benefits and a full NI contribution as paid by you when you're working.

If you haven't paid a full NI contribution for the two tax years prior to your claim commencing then you can't claim IB (or ESA?? as it is now apparently for new claimants) so whether you have been off work for the last year is not important for claims.

The only way that you could get back to the position where you could claim full IC/ESA is by going back to work for 2 financial years, which probably doesn't help you out much I'm afraid.