Tax credits and industrial injuries disablement benefit

owey

I know you get extra tax credit if you are on disablement benefit, but do you get it if you are on "Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit?". I'am not sure as I still work full time and get full pay. I know I can phone them, but don't want to open a can of worms.

Ted_Hutchinson

Details of the disabilities which put someone at a disadvantage in getting a job are set out in the notes that accompany the claim form. They include a wide range of things, for example
• seeing
• hearing
• communicating with people
• getting around
• using your hands
• reaching with your arms
• mental disabilities, and
• exhaustion and pain.
We may ask you to give us the name of a healthcare professional who can confirm the extent to which your disability affects you, for example, a doctor, a district or community nurse, or an occupational therapist.

To satisfy the ‘qualifying benefit’ test, you must be receiving one of the following benefits
• Disability Living Allowance
• Attendance Allowance
• Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit (with Constant
Attendance Allowance for you)
• War Disablement Pension (with Constant Attendance Allowance or Mobility Supplement for you), or
• a vehicle provided under the Invalid Vehicle Scheme.

There are a further couple of pages of more details about the Disability Element and fast-track procedures but "can of worms" describes properly much of this tax credit legislation. No wonder they make so many mistakes.

CIS

http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/manuals/tctmanual/TCTM02501.htm

You need to be
* is aged at least 16 and
* is engaged in qualifying remunerative work for at least 16 hours a week TCTM02400and
* has a physical or mental disability which puts him at a disadvantage in getting a job and
* satisfies the "qualifying benefit" test or the Fast-Track rules TCTM02502

The qualifying benenfit , with regards to Indutsrial injuries is:

http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/manuals/tctmanual/TCTM02502.htm

Reg. 9(4) Case C

2. On a day for which the maximum rate of tax credit is determined one of the following is payable to them:

* Disability Living Allowance or
* Attendance Allowance or
* Mobility Supplement or Constant Attendance Allowance paid with a War Pension or Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit

ohreally

IIDB won't attract an uplift in WTC's (i assume you are referring to the disability element of WTC's).