Incapacity benefit, esa assessment!

bikeit

UPDATE:
Just received a letter from the ESA centre and it states that the wife is entitled to ESA. it also states she will be paid ESA from 23rd October 2012, she will get £71.00 per week.
Does this mean back dated money of £71.00 per week from October?

Mojisola

bikeit wrote: »

UPDATE:
Just received a letter from the ESA centre and it states that the wife is entitled to ESA. it also states she will be paid ESA from 23rd October 2012, she will get £71.00 per week.
Does this mean back dated money of £71.00 per week from October?

Yes, she'll get a lump sum to cover that period.

If she's been getting any other interim benefit, that will be deduced from the lump sum before payment.

bikeit

Sorry to appear totally thick, but what happens after October?

Mojisola

bikeit wrote: »

Sorry to appear totally thick, but what happens after October?

Which October?

bikeit

from October 2012 she has been getting £71.00 per week, but before that she was getting £108.05 per week?

Mojisola

bikeit wrote: »

from October 2012 she has been getting £71.00 per week, but before that she was getting £108.05 per week?

What was the £108.05 made up from?

If she's been getting £71 anyway then there won't be a lump sum payment.

bikeit

The wife has been on the old benefit "incapacity benefit" for a long tome and the sum she received on that was £108.05 per week but last October she had to go for a medical and the out come was they deemed that she was fit for work so she appealed the decision and from then she was receiving the sum of £71.00 per week, hope you can understand this

Mojisola

bikeit wrote: »

The wife has been on the old benefit "incapacity benefit" for a long tome and the sum she received on that was £108.05 per week but last October she had to go for a medical and the out come was they deemed that she was fit for work so she appealed the decision and from then she was receiving the sum of £71.00 per week, hope you can understand this

£71 is the adult rate for ESA.

https://www.dwp.gov.uk/docs/benefitrates2012.pdf

There are premiums depending on the level of disability. Your wife is getting the basic rate.

Torry_Quine

bikeit wrote: »

The wife has been on the old benefit "incapacity benefit" for a long tome and the sum she received on that was £108.05 per week but last October she had to go for a medical and the out come was they deemed that she was fit for work so she appealed the decision and from then she was receiving the sum of £71.00 per week, hope you can understand this

She will be elegible for transitional relief if her ESA is less than her IB so will be entitled to the higher amount. What has she been getting while the appeal was progressing?

Also which group has she been put in as the WRAG will only give her money for one year in total before becoming income based and that takes all household income into account.

bikeit

While the appeal was in progress she was getting £71 pw.
she is in the WRAG , as for household income it is only the wife and me left at home as the children have all flew the nest.