wtc and esa

bewilderedhelpneeded

My friend is single self employed and gets wtc . She has been signed off as sick from doctors since beginning march 2012. She has submitted a claim for income based esa which she has been told will be backdated to may 2012. Will she still get wtc if she gets the esa and if not will she have to pay back the wtc she received from may 2012 or march 2012 when she was first signed off sick from doctor? Will wtc automatically stop if she gets esa or will she need to let wtc people know she getting esa and that she has been signed off since march?

pmlindyloo

If she was receiving Statutory Sick Pay before she claimed ESA then she will be counted as working during that time and be eligible for WTC.

Once she moves on to ESA she is not working and therefore will not be eligible for WTC.

She need to tell tax credits of her change of circumstances and they will sort it all out. She must do it asap.

bewilderedhelpneeded

No she hasn't claimed ssp . She is self employed and was earning very little hence the wtc. Doctor signed her off sick from march so she wasn't earning anything from then. Only income was wtc. She has just put in claim for esa and enclosed all her sick notes. She was told if she got it they would ba.ck date esa claim to may

rogerblack

bewilderedhelpneeded wrote: »

No she hasn't claimed ssp . She is self employed and was earning very little hence the wtc. Doctor signed her off sick from march so she wasn't earning anything from then. Only income was wtc. She has just put in claim for esa and enclosed all her sick notes. She was told if she got it they would ba.ck date esa claim to may

Only if the GPs note is backdated to then, and she was not working.

bewilderedhelpneeded

rogerblack wrote: »

Only if the GPs note is backdated to then, and she was not working.

Sicknotes were backdated to march 2012 and she hasn't worked since then. She been told esa will be backdated to may as they only go back 3 months. Will she have to pay back any wtc received since march as she hasn't been working or since may as that will be when her esa will be effective from or will she still be entitles to claim it alongside her esa?