Incapacity Benefit

saintjanet

After reading the last couple of postings it made me wonder what
happened to Max Fischer who used to post on here.There was a girl called Lorraine,who said she worked in IB,who used to post on another site,she has vanished too!! very strange.

Icemoose

Okay I am hoping you can help me with this as my employers are useless and I am so confused.

Last year I was off sick, I use my SSP entitlement at work and claim IB for the finally 4 weeks I was off. I then went back to work and worked for about 14 weeks before I got ill again and went back on the sick at work – this was in March 2007.

I assumed I would not have built up any SSP entitlement at work and would claim IB again and at first my employers said the same. So I submitted my claim and waited for my employers to send an SSP 1 form to me.

Then they told me that I didn’t need to claim IB as I would get SSP from them again, so I cancelled my claim for IB at the DSS.

I then tried for over two weeks to get my employers to send me a letter stating how much SSP I would get and from what date… it’s took two weeks and nothing changed so I chased it yesterday with my team manager and asked her if she would sort something out.

Today I get a call from HR at work who tell me they are sending me SSP1 and I need to claim Incapacity Benefit…

This is where I get confused…

They tell me at work I am entitled to full pay and so I have not been overpaid. She tells me that I will get 18 days of SSP in March and a full month of SSP in April if I am still off all month (I will be at the moment)… but and this is what I don’t get! I need to claim Incapacity Benefit and any money I am paid from the DSS I have to pay back to my employers… so if I get £70.05 a week I owe my work that amount of money!

I never heard of this before and I work in Housing Benefit so I am rather surprised to never heard of this process before… is it right? Or am I just being fobbed off from my employers HR department because they don’t know what they are doing!

HELP!

Icemoose

Whoops I didn't notice this topic was not as active as it was....

liatoby

hi wondered if anyone can help my freind???
They are a recovering addicte, and are on medication which prevents them from doing normal everyday things, due to tiredness etc.
they had been getting ICB 4 around 2 years, sending in doctors letters etc, then out of the blue they get a letter saying they need to go 4 a madical assesment to do with them claiming ICB.
my mate attended the medical, and received a letter about a month latter saying that they did not receive enough points in the medical !!!, to receive ICB anymore???
my freind has appealed against this deciction, and is curranty in receipt on income support and awaiting the appeal decision.
my friend is not sure what to do or where to turn 4 advise.
if anyone can help, please do.
thanks, a worried friend!!!

Morglin

Your friend could go to the CAB, who will help.

If the appeal fails, your friend should be put onto JSA.

http://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/index/getadvice.htm

Lin