Civil Service Pension (Incapacity Benefit)

lpoolass

I have been receiving IB for nearly 4 years due to bad accident. I have recently turned 60 and have just received a lump sum over 10 thousand pounds and my 1st monthly cheque How will this affect my IB. Can my lump sum be classed as savings? Thank you for your help.

Loughton_Monkey

How could it possibly be classed as anything else?

sleepless_saver

What is the £10000 and payment for? Is it a pension or some sort of compensation or what?

Whether or not it affects your incapacity benefit depends if you are getting income related IB or not, and if the £10000 is in trust or not. If it is, then the capital is disregarded even if you are getting income related IB.

If you're getting income related benefits, then additional income will definitely affect those.

I suggest you phone up the IB people and tell them about it. And if you're getting council tax benefit and/or housing benefit they need to know too.

citykid5

incapasity benefit isn't means tested,so your lump sum payment should not have any effect on your claim.however your new pension will.the first £85pw isn't taken into account,but any more than £85p/w will result in a 50p in the £ deduction from your benefits. i.e if you get a pension of £185p/w the first £85 is discounted,then the £100p/w would mean a decrese in you incapacity benefit of £50.
hope you can make sence of all this,and you find it to be of help

sleepless_saver

citykid5 wrote: »

incapasity benefit isn't means tested,so your lump sum payment should not have any effect on your claim.

But the OP might be getting an income support top up to the incapacity benefit so it could have an effect. We don't really have enough info to be definite one way or the other.

citykid5

sleepless_saver wrote: »

But the OP might be getting an income support top up to the incapacity benefit so it could have an effect. We don't really have enough info to be definite one way or the other.

yes i agree.thanks for that