Any help while on sick leave?

my.new.elephant

Hi, just to let you know you can claim Contributions Based Employment & Support Allowance if SSP is no longer in payment (even if you are receiving half pay from your employer). Hope this helps

sheeps68

my.new.elephant wrote: »

Hi, just to let you know you can claim Contributions Based Employment & Support Allowance if SSP is no longer in payment (even if you are receiving half pay from your employer). Hope this helps

Thats a great help to me as I presume I need to do that in order to ensure my NI stamp gets paid too!

Indie_Kid

sheeps68 wrote: »

Thats a great help to me as I presume I need to do that in order to ensure my NI stamp gets paid too!

Yes you do need to do that.

You can only claim ESA if your employer sends off a form (SSP1?) saying that your SSP has stopped.

jewelly

Thanks Indie Kid. I was sent the form, but the CAB advisor never said I could claim ESA. I will look into that.

adviceforall

Im on company sick pay and went past the 28 weeks but when I spoke to tax credits they said that the 28 weeks rule does not apply as still being paid by my company. It was only if I was off work and not being paid that it would apply.

sheeps68

adviceforall wrote: »

Im on company sick pay and went past the 28 weeks but when I spoke to tax credits they said that the 28 weeks rule does not apply as still being paid by my company. It was only if I was off work and not being paid that it would apply.

All very confusing. I shall call them at the 28 week mark and then follow it up in writing just in case and then its in there hands and their mistake if its wrong. Of course with recorded delivery.

Richie-from-the-Boro

It gets worse and worse-er-er. Meet Maximus, the new sinister ATOS for sick people, called the Health & Work Service.

rogerblack

Richie-from-the-Boro wrote: »

It gets worse and worse-er-er. Meet Maximus, the new sinister ATOS for sick people, called the Health & Work Service.

If done right, this could be an enormous improvement.
It could mean less benefit payments, healthier happier people, and lower costs in total to the exchequer.

Annoyingly, I can't find an excellent recent podcast on this by what I thought was either the Lancet or BMJ - on a trial of significantly greater access to mental health services than is routine in the general population, and how much it helped. (a lot).

However, done properly early intervention can help in a _lot_ of cases.
Instead of an extended period on ESA, a wait to see a NHS physio/or mental health professional, more time on ESA, and then a period on JSA trying to get another job - a very early intervention aimed at fixing the problem promptly has good results in many cases.

A year on benefits - for a person with the average working wage (26K*) costs the exchequer about 16K (ESA + lack of VAT on purchases, income tax).

Even someone on 16 hour minimum wage about 7000.

A few hundred, or even a couple of thousand pounds spent on prompt therapy - in the right cases could help people get fit sooner - possibly so they can get back into their old job - rather than having to find a new.

Done wrong, at a minimum cost and hammering many round pegs through square holes it could be a pointless waste of money, and not very great for those hammered either.

(the 26K average wage figure has issues, yes)

Richie-from-the-Boro

HiYa rogerblack,

- referral volumes anticipated at 350,000 to 700,000 per annum
- apart from the ludicrous assumption that sick people can be assessed over the telephone
- our GOV handrd the lucrative contract to run the service over to MAXIMUS
- and ignore the numerous scandals involving the company in the US
- The US has 1m mentally ill people in its jails
- introduced in England and Wales, but not in Scotland, rejected by the Scots – even without Independence!
- this part of the further privatised health service will just e-mail you back to work - no arguments - email service

- these all round good guys will do much for the UK's ill~and~need~help !


Here are just a few examples:

Lawmakers lash out at Maximus for questionable expenses payments

Medical workers allowed to keep practising despite failing drug, alcohol tests

Managers File Race Discrimination Complaints Against Maximus Inc

Maximus to pay back $500,000

Federal Agency Finds Workfare Contractor Violated Wage Law

Maximus Pay $50,000 for Disability Discrimination Lawsuit

Maximus Settles Fraud Case for $30.5 Million

Consultant’s advice could cost state tens of millions

Maximus settles Medicaid complaint

$2.5 Million Settlement Of Contract Dispute Over Computer System Update

Auditors: State owes $22.8 million for improper Medicaid billings

MAXIMUS also likes to give a LOT of money to right-wing politicians in the US – especially ones who are keen to hand over massive state or federal contracts to it.

Indie_Kid

What therapy? Most of us are untreatable.