OK, so have i got this right... incapacity benefit ..

scootw1

sunnyone wrote: »

Not most, many but not most because many have working partners and/or savings/investments/pensions and IB is none means tested.

I stand corrected

Indie_Kid

scootw1 wrote: »

Not being pedantic and don't take this the wrong way but most people on IB don't live on that. They live on that PLUS rent paid PLUS council tax paid so it's actually a lot more

if they do claim LHA / HB / CTB, they wouldn't get it paid in full.

tobykim

It's strange that the OP has not posted in this thread since it was started, can't say I blame them though .............

scootw1

sh1305 wrote: »

if they do claim LHA / HB / CTB, they wouldn't get it paid in full.

Depends how much their rent is doesn't it? And I know some people on IB who do get their council tax paid in full

calleyw

You don't got to choose to go on to IB long term.

As far as I was aware once you have been claiming IB for more than 52 weeks it moves over to the long term.

My husband never had to make an another claim it just happened.

Not that you can claim IB any more anyway. Unless you have some linking entitlement.

Yours

Calley

gingernights

Hiya thanks for replies but yes my friend is very ill she has MS !!!and she is getting worse, she only works parttime now but is thinking of giving it up as she's finding it very hard and wanted to know if she would be better off not working, what is wrong with that?!!!
I'm sure she would rather be fit and well and work full-time rather than skimp and save on the little money the goverment give. she is also looking into working at home jobs so please dont judge intill you know the facts.

gingernights

calleyw wrote: »

You don't got to choose to go on to IB long term.

As far as I was aware once you have been claiming IB for more than 52 weeks it moves over to the long term.

My husband never had to make an another claim it just happened.

Not that you can claim IB any more anyway. Unless you have some linking entitlement.

Yours

Calley

Thanks for reply but i have just found out today she is aready claiming low rate DLA so she is going to look into claiming the middle or even high rate which will help out if she is going to give up working, she could also claim this if she was to work aswell which is great:T, my sister also claims
long term DLA as she's Handicapped which is 300 plus a week.

dmg24

gingernights wrote: »

Thanks for reply but i have just found out today she is aready claiming low rate DLA so she is going to look into claiming the middle or even high rate which will help out if she is going to give up working, she could also claim this if she was to work aswell which is great:T, my sister also claims
long term DLA as she's Handicapped which is 300 plus a week.

DLA is nowhere near £300 per week.

Has your friend claimed IB previously?

cit_k

TOBRUK wrote: »

I agree with you Oldernotwiser, especially these days ... unless the whole circumstances are laid out in first post there is an assumption that people are looking at the benefit system and choosing the benefit that they will get most out of and one that they will be better off on!

I never thought you could just choose what benefit to go onto, when I became ill and my GP informed me that I was unfit to work, after that and having to leave my job through ill health I was just placed on IB - I didn't choose or look into what benefit I could claim. I always thought that IB was when you were deemed too ill to work which was firstly the decision of your doctor - perhaps things have changed.

I have never heard of that happening, and as far as I know, its not even possible, you have to CLAIM the benefit, or someone else has to fill in the forms for you etc, they cannot as far as I know simply PLACE you on incapacity benefit unless you actually claim it!

cit_k

Oldernotwiser wrote: »

Because that (now ESA) is the benefit that people with a disability that prevents them from working claim!

Incapacity is the benefit that people used to claim (and already existing claimaints still claim) when they have an illness/disablity or injury that prevents them from working.

ESA is (in basic principle, but not in detailed principle or fact) easier as you can claim it not only if you have an injury or illness/disability that prevents them from working, but also if you have an illness/injury/disability that does not prevent you from working as long as you get extra support in order to get into work.