ib question

helenj1

hi when i applied for ib at first i had just seperated from my husband partly because of my illness.on the claim form i put either single or separated (been a long time).when we got back together i phoned up dwp and told them i was moving back in with partner,they said not to worry as it would not effect my claim unless i was going to claim for my partner which i knew i could not as they where working full time.should i have said i was moving back in with husband or is partner enough.?they never asked if i was married just that it would not effect my benefit as it is based on Contribitions made
any advice greatly recieved

seven-day-weekend

The only thing that will effect your Incapacity benefit is if you personally are in receipt of a Pension of over £85 a week. It doesn't matter how much your partner earns nor how much either of you have in savings.

cit_k

seven-day-weekend wrote: »

The only thing that will effect your Incapacity benefit is if you personally are in receipt of a Pension of over £85 a week. It doesn't matter how much your partner earns nor how much either of you have in savings.

In theory, but in practice, it makes a difference if you have a partner etc, as they can use it as evidence against you in the assessment (as they have rather twisted logic that ignores facts).

For example. one of the descriptors for IB is about prefering to spend hours alone.

They assessors (or software perhaps more realistically) seems to think that if you have a partner, who lives with you, then you do not prefer to be alone. Even if you tell them that you prefer to sit alone for a long time, but your partner wont let you, they ignore that, and deduct points.

It even stretches as far as you could be sitting with your partner, and the TV is on, whilst you may not be paying much attention, and its really your partner watching it, they usually dont care and deduct points because they claim you were watching TV too.

All tricks they have played on me in the past, so having a partner can make a big difference to a claim, when it comes to the assessment itself.

helenj1

thanks for advice .i phoned and said i had a partner my point was should i have said wife and been more to the point.

seven-day-weekend

No it won't have make any difference whether you have a partner, or a wife, or live alone, to the amount of money you get. IB is not means-tested in this way. Money is only deducted if YOU PERSONALLY have a Pension of over £85 a week. Don't worry about it.

Cit-k, none of what you have said makes any difference to the amount of money you get, if you are deemed as being eligible for IB.

cit_k

seven-day-weekend wrote: »

No it won't have make any difference whether you have a partner, or a wife, or live alone, to the amount of money you get. IB is not means-tested in this way. Money is only deducted if YOU PERSONALLY have a Pension of over £85 a week. Don't worry about it.

Cit-k, none of what you have said makes any difference to the amount of money you get, if you are deemed as being eligible for IB.

I know it wont make a difference if you are deemed eligible, Im just saying it can make a difference to whether you are deemed eligible when you are assessed again (although usually only until you get to a tribunal where they throw out all the stupidity in the atos report and look at facts instead of wild assumptions made by software)

seven-day-weekend

cit_k wrote: »

I know it wont make a difference if you are deemed eligible, Im just saying it can make a difference to whether you are deemed eligible when you are assessed again (although usually only until you get to a tribunal where they throw out all the stupidity in the atos report and look at facts instead of wild assumptions made by software)

Yes, but the OP HAS been deemed eligible, you are scaremongering imho. It is not relevant to this discussion.

OP, your marital status will not make any difference to the amount of money you will get, so it does not matter whether you said partner or wife.

healy

seven-day-weekend wrote: »

Yes, but the OP HAS been deemed eligible, you are scaremongering imho. It is not relevant to this discussion.

OP, your marital status will not make any difference to the amount of money you will get, so it does not matter whether you said partner or wife.

I think the word is obsessed!