Incapacity Benefit dilemna

Kurt1967

Hi, I am currently receiving IB after a long appeal process. I have seen a temporary job that I think would be very interesting and would like to apply but do not want to complicate my IB claim. I am pretty sure it would be more than 16 hours a week so do I go ahead and risk it by not informing them or will they catch on with the National Insurance and tax etc.

Thank you.

seven-day-weekend

You will not find anyone on this board who will tell you how to commit Benefit Fraud.

There is such a thing as Permitted Work if you are on IB but a job over 16 hours a week would be outside its remit.

Here is a link to the rules for Permitted Work:

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/DisabledPeople/FinancialSupport/DG_10020667

cyclonebri1

So far I haven't had to attend a medical for my claim but I have recently had to take a private one to enable me to take my early unreduced pension.

The one question which I believe they always ask, and I was asked at my medical is to run through what you do on a typical day?

Takes a little thinking about to answer both honestly and not to make it sound like you doss about watching TV all day.

I argued that for me there is no such thing as a typical day. My condition affecting me differently from day to day and preventing me stringing enough good days together to form a routine.

All true, and proved acceptable, but I had a very detailed and unfortunate recent physical medical history to back me up.

Good luck.

cishanjia

One thing I'd like to add. I'm on IB at the moment and looking at going the permitted work route. I've noticed that you when you get more money (such as when IB rises from the initial rate to the higher rate), you only get so many pennies in the pound of the rise. This is because so much of the extra is clawed back in lost Council Tax Benefit and Housing Benefit. So I think it would be worthwhile also checking just how much of any earnings you would get to keep.

niceshoes_2

The permitted work option is there to enable people on incapacity benefit to sample work to see if it suits and is aimed to introduce people back into a work environment. The earnings limit that people can aarn whilst on Incapacity Benefit is particulary good, so I would encourage you to look into this option.

Do not commit benefit fraud - you will get caught - whether it be this year, next year or in 2 years time as your records will catch up with you.

Why risk a criminal conviction when there is a perfectly good scheme in place, to assist your return to work legitimatly?

If you do commit benefit fraud, you also jeopordise your future entitlement to Incapacity Benefit when you may need it again and as you have had a lengthy appeal, I am sure this is not a route that you want to go down.

suelees1

cyclonebri1 wrote: »

So far I haven't had to attend a medical for my claim but I have recently had to take a private one to enable me to take my early unreduced pension

I know you haven't asked about this but it's something to bear in mind - any pension from work could well affect any IB you'd be entitled to.

cyclonebri1

suelees1 wrote: »

I know you haven't asked about this but it's something to bear in mind - any pension from work could well affect any IB you'd be entitled to.

Don't worry I'm fully aware of that one, infact I'm pretty sure I will not actually recieve any IB once my pensions come on stream;)