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Going From ESA to JSA - Help Please
websurfer10
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I currently get ESA contribtions based whilst I go radiotherapy and have been receivnig this for last year with my last treatment 8 weeks ago. Immedaitely prior to this I received JSA contribiutions for a few months.
I will find out next week if I am 'done' with treatment as it were, and I also (by coincidence!) have my first ever ESA medical the week after. I am pretty sure if I have no treatment planned and am not as totally incapable as you seem to have to be to claim ESA according to some scarey reports, that they will fail/disallow me depsite me not being able to work in my previous capacity due to the effects of treatment. I am actually quite scared of this medical and have considered cancalling it and my benefit.
What happens if I do fail it? Are you just cast off as it were or do they move you into a work group ? Can I go back to claiming JSA - would receiving ESA for last 14 months qualify on the contributions front ? Also I know you can only clam contributions based JSA for 6 months (I think) so if I can get it would the 6 months include the 3 months I claimed it immedaitely prior to getting ESA.
Sorry it this is unclear! Thanks so much if anyone can help.
I will find out next week if I am 'done' with treatment as it were, and I also (by coincidence!) have my first ever ESA medical the week after. I am pretty sure if I have no treatment planned and am not as totally incapable as you seem to have to be to claim ESA according to some scarey reports, that they will fail/disallow me depsite me not being able to work in my previous capacity due to the effects of treatment. I am actually quite scared of this medical and have considered cancalling it and my benefit.
What happens if I do fail it? Are you just cast off as it were or do they move you into a work group ? Can I go back to claiming JSA - would receiving ESA for last 14 months qualify on the contributions front ? Also I know you can only clam contributions based JSA for 6 months (I think) so if I can get it would the 6 months include the 3 months I claimed it immedaitely prior to getting ESA.
Sorry it this is unclear! Thanks so much if anyone can help.
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If you pass your medical and are deemed fit to work you will no longer be in receipt of ESA so should make a claim for JSA. If you have exhausted your contribution based benefits you will be able to claim means tested JSA or Income based JSA as it's more commonly called.
Why are you scared of your medical ? Surely it would be good news to hear that you are no longer unwell enough that you are unable to work, passing the medical would be your first step to returning to work as a healthy individual.0 -
If you fail the medical, you can appeal and stay on until your appeal is heard, and that is usally 6 months at least.
If you were to qualify for JSA again then the 3 months you received last year wouldnt count towards the new claim as, for the purposes of 'Relevant Income Tax Years' the two claims wouldnt link.0
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