need help

fragmented

might be better to ask in the Benefits & Tax Credits sub forum ?
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/forumdisplay.php?f=139

savemoney

My daughter is disabled and does office work for a local HA she gets Mobility component enhanced and standard Daily living component. She orginal started off as apprentice and her employment contract ends in June.

She also gets around £50 per week tax credits due to being disabled she doesnt earn huge amounts, and I am sure you are like her just want to have a job and earn some money and get out of house and make a contribution to the world.

Note sure how much you get with pip assuming you dont get the top 2 high rates, you could maybe get reassed which is based on point system

http://www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/personal-independence-payment-pip/pip-points-system



Good luck with finding work

Wizzbang

IMHO- £27K is quite a high income, so that may well mean you aren't entitled to much extra help- especially if it's means tested.

You are entitled to see the disability employment advisor at your local job centre. They are supposed to give you extra help to find work. They are not professionally trained and IMHO pretty unqualified to be doing that job.

There is absolutely no reason why you shouldn't be working. Are you aware that you are entitled to reasonable adjustments to be made under the Equality Act 2010 which replaced the Disability Discrimination Act? Also, you can get extra funding through the access to work scheme which will pay for any equipment, taxis etc that you need- basically to keep you on a level footing with non-disabled people. Again, from personal experience you'll always meet bigoted people and you may well have to read them the law and be very forthright so that they can see past your disability. Often disabled people have to work twice as hard, just to 'prove' themselves.

If you end up working over 16 hours a week, you should also be abled to claim the disability element of working tax credit. Though with your wife's earnings being so high, they may be significantly reduced.

SarahJayne16

our income is 15,767 per annum, i have a disability, I'm not entitled PIP and I'm desperately trying to find another income, any other benefit i have tried to claim i have been told my husband makes enough omen for the 2 of us, we really struggle, i genuinely want to work but due to my illness I'm somewhat 'unreliable' so if anyone has any work from home ideas please let me know, sorry to ride on someone else post

DomRavioli

SarahJayne16 wrote: »

our income is 15,767 per annum, i have a disability, I'm not entitled PIP and I'm desperately trying to find another income, any other benefit i have tried to claim i have been told my husband makes enough omen for the 2 of us, we really struggle, i genuinely want to work but due to my illness I'm somewhat 'unreliable' so if anyone has any work from home ideas please let me know, sorry to ride on someone else post

What is the nature of your impairment (just because there are a lot of work at home things, and some may not be right for you). Also, what do you have experience of doing?