incapacity benefit and income support help needed

gingernights

Hello if i was claiming long term incapacity benefit for someone over the age of 25 , would i be able to claim income support aswell?
This person has no children.
How much would this be a week , not included housing benefit.

thanks in advance

gingernights

i cant seem to find the answer anywhere, also this person is single and lives alone, but has been turned down for DLA, so isn't able to get that.

Indie_Kid

If they're not claiming DLA, IB is very likely to be more than what the government says they need to live on - therefore, no IS.

elsien

Have you tried entitledto.com?

dmg24

Could you not ask the person in question?

gingernights

hi thanks but i'v tried that , and cant seem to get anywhere.

This person is on long term sick not work for over a year would they be able to claim income support with their incapacity they r single no kids.

thanks

dmg24

How old are they? How long have they been off work for?

elsien

According to entitled to, it depends on whether the incapacity benefit is long or short term, and higher or lower rate. I put in an age of 26, left out all the rent and council tax questions, and presuming no other income it said no to the short term lower rate IB, and a possible £2.05 a week for the long term IB (the £94 IB rate).
So possibly, but not a massive amount.
Out of interest, why are you looking at claiming for them, can't they do it themselves?

dmg24

elsien wrote: »

According to entitled to, it depends on whether the incapacity benefit is long or short term, and higher or lower rate. I put in an age of 26, left out all the rent and council tax questions, and presuming no other income it said no to the short term lower rate IB, and a possible £2.05 a week for the long term IB (the £94 IB rate).
So possibly, but not a massive amount.
Out of interest, why are you looking at claiming for them, can't they do it themselves?

It would also depend on whether they qualified for the Age Addition.