Need help on illness support

mrs_tooti-frooti

Hi,
I applied for what was known as incapacity benefit last year. I went for the medical and the doctor told me there and then that I was eligible to claim.

I then received a letter from jobcentreplus saying that although I was eligble they wouldn't be paying me anything due to my national insurance contributions for the year 2008/2009 not being enough.

I have spoken to every tom, !!!!!! and harry regarding this and I've just hit brick wall after brick wall.

Is there anything I can do? I get no money at all and I'm expected to live off my Husband which I don't think is fair.

merlin68

Why not? What happenned to the wedding vows. In sickness and health for richer and poorer. Your husband should support you not the state.

Jowo_2

The means tested benefits system for income dependent benefits is premised on couples providing each other with mutual support and assistance (that's actually explicit in the regulations, not something I am assuming). The contribution dependent benefits are based on reciprocity, a social contract, which means that the recipient has to have contributed in order to qualify for something in return. These are the two fundamental principles behind the two different types of benefits.

Do you experience any care or mobility problems? If so, look into whether you are eligible for DLA which isn't means tested.

McKneff

Does your husband object to feeding and housing you.

What's not fair about it.?

He works, you stay at home and work (housework, cooking)

nannytone_2

how is it fairer for the taxpayer to keep you rather than the person who gets the benefit of having you live with him?

tomitma

So you are saying that every married woman, should have there own money, as it is not fair on the husband to have to provide for them, so the tax payer, should provide the spending money.

STRANGE!!!!!

welshmoneylover

mrs_tooti-frooti wrote: »

Hi,
I applied for what was known as incapacity benefit last year. I went for the medical and the doctor told me there and then that I was eligible to claim.

I then received a letter from jobcentreplus saying that although I was eligble they wouldn't be paying me anything due to my national insurance contributions for the year 2008/2009 not being enough.

I have spoken to every tom, !!!!!! and harry regarding this and I've just hit brick wall after brick wall.

Is there anything I can do? I get no money at all and I'm expected to live off my Husband which I don't think is fair.

I don't think its fair the tax payer has to support you.

Isn't there some marriage vow about sickness and health? :rotfl:

Indie_Kid

mrs_tooti-frooti wrote: »

Hi,
I applied for what was known as incapacity benefit last year. I went for the medical and the doctor told me there and then that I was eligible to claim.

What the doctor meant was that providing you met the savings, income or the contributions, you could claim.

black_paw

welcome to the real world

CazGreg

I think you've had rather harsh responses so far.
I can only suggest visiting your local CAB office, although I expect you've already done that.
Just to clarify, I think that it isn't really your national insurance contributions which are the pertinent point - because even someone who has never made any contributions in their entire life can claim things like incapacity benefit - but the fact that as you're married, you do count as a unit for this sort of thing.
I'm sure there is plenty you can do to 'repay' your husband!

Morglin

Any means tested benefit (and as you haven't made enough contributions, any ESA/JSA would be means tested), takes into account the household income, which would include your husband's earnings.

Lin