Incapacity benefit - Would employer know??

healy

Linking periods Two or more periods of incapacity separated by eight weeks or less (104 weeks for welfare to work beneficiaries and 104 weeks for certain exceptional cases) are linked together to form one period of incapacity. A person is not entitled to Incapacity Benefit for the periods between linked periods of incapacity for work, but if periods are linked in this way: s/he will not have to serve a further three waiting days; the issue of whether contribution conditions are satisfied will not be reconsidered; earlier periods of entitlement to Incapacity Benefit will be considered when deciding the date when s/he qualifies for the higher rate of short term Incapacity Benefit or long term Incapacity Benefit; s/he can continue to qualify for Incapacity Benefit on the grounds of incapacity in youth if s/he initially qualified on this basis and still has not paid or been credited with enough National Insurance contributions to qualify otherwise.

grayfray

Thanks Healy, just what I required, thank you everyone for your help...
Once the WTC class me as not working at 28 weeks, does that make me unemployed or still self employed though on incapacity benefit?