If they TAX Disability benefits(DLA/PIP/ESA)Tax calculation Help! How much £ to lose?

gemmaking

If they TAX Disability benefits (DLA/PIP/ESA) STUCK on calculation! + is Hb included?


If the government taxed the disability benefits as part of the benefit welfare reform,
how much money could somebody lose out (due to paying it to tax, under the new law to tax disability benefits)

in the below income circumstances


i) Would they just consider taxing DLA/PIP alone? or also including Esa too? and which type of Esa? (contribution based/ income based?)


ii) If the tories tax disability benefits, DLA and PIP, then would they also include the tax on ESA too? and HB?

iii) (ie, for your total annual income, would ESA and your HB and Council tax be considered contributions?)

or HB is not really considered an income?

iiii) Can you help with this calculation please:
If the taxing disability law comes in, how much money would this person lose under the new law (where they would have to pay tax, and lose some money to the tax)

DLA (HRC, HRM) =£137.5 per week
ESA (Support) = £184.8 per week
-No other income

so you have to from that, work out the annual income, and then the Band of 'allowed non taxable amount' found here:

https://www.gov.uk/income-tax-rates/current-rates-and-allowances

(Personal Allowance 2015-2016 being £10,600)

and then show much much a typical person would lose, due to them taxing the disability.



It would be great if you could show the calculation aswell, cheers.

eg: [(£137.5 + £184.8) x 52 (weeks) ] x 20% ??

merlin68

As far as im aware it was only for over 65s.

gemmaking

Thanks blondebubbles