Anyone claim disability element of working tax credit

wilmist

Does anyone know what is classed as a mental illness to qualify for the disability element of working tax credit?


I am off work with stress/depression/anxiety (off work past 8 years)


looks like you have to work a minimum of 16 hours to claim. If i can't manage that am i not entitled to any benefits at all. I have savings so can't get housing benefit or income support.

BigAunty

Fact sheet here

http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/taxcredits/tc956.pdf

To qualify for the disability element, you have to meet all of these conditions:

• you must be working for 16 hours or more a week
• you must have a disability that makes it difficult for you to get a job
• you must be receiving, or have recently received, a qualifying sickness or disability-related benefit - or in certain circumstances National Insurance credits

BigAunty

It is possible to claim it for mental health issues, so long as you meet the criteria including working 16 hours per week. This is the descriptor under 'other conditions'.

•You have a mental illness that you receive regulartreatment for under supervision of a medicallyqualified person.

•Due to mental disability, you are often confused or forgetful.

•You cannot do the simplest addition and subtraction.

•Due to mental disability, you strike people ordamage property, or are unable to form normalsocial relationships.

•People who know you well have difficulty inunderstanding what you say.

•When a person that you know well speaks to you,you have difficulty in understanding what thatperson says.

•At least once a year, during waking hours, you are in a coma or have a fit where you lose consciousness.

•You
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wilmist

I can see no further information other than

"You have a mental illness that you receive regular treatment for under supervision of a medically qualified person"


Does stress/depression come under this.