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13 years 4 months ago #36425 by Nik
ESA/War Pension eligibilty was created by Nik
I am in receipt of Incapacity benefit and a war pension. Under the new ESA means testing am I correct in assuming that the first ten pound of your war pension per week is disregarded as income and the remainder of your war pension taken pound for pound off your ESA entitlement i.e a pound war pension equates to one minus pound in ESA?

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13 years 4 months ago #36428 by pete17971
Replied by pete17971 on topic Re:ESA/War Pension eligibilty
Nik wrote:

I am in receipt of Incapacity benefit and a war pension. Under the new ESA means testing am I correct in assuming that the first ten pound of your war pension per week is disregarded as income and the remainder of your war pension taken pound for pound off your ESA entitlement i.e a pound war pension equates to one minus pound in ESA?


Hi,

It is only the case if claiming Income Related ESA not Contribution Based ESA.

A better 'plan' could be, providing you have a 60% or greater War Pension is to claim War Pensioners Unemployability Supplement instead of ESA.

Pete

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13 years 4 months ago #36435 by Nik
Replied by Nik on topic Re:ESA/War Pension eligibilty
Thanks for the reply Pete
Im at 40% rate
So Basically because is was injured during my service My war pension is now classed as income which now losses my right to ESA making me £400 a month worse off,
Great news fight for your country get injured and get shafted by IDS!
government!

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13 years 4 months ago - 13 years 4 months ago #36437 by pete17971
Replied by pete17971 on topic Re:ESA/War Pension eligibilty
Nik wrote:

Thanks for the reply Pete
Im at 40% rate
So Basically because is was injured during my service My war pension is now classed as income which now losses my right to ESA making me £400 a month worse off,
Great news fight for your country get injured and get shafted by IDS!
government!


Hi Nik,

If you are currently in receipt of IB, that is contributory. On migration, provided you pass the WCA, you would either go into the support group (where as best as we know your contributory payments would continue) or WRAG group. If you are placed in the WRAG group your ESA should be classed as contributory for 1 year (again as far as we know). Only after a year would it become Income Related.

However do you claim War Pensioners Allowance for Lowered Standard of Occupation (ALSO)? and more importantly if you do, did you claim it before or after April 2009?.

Pete
Last edit: 13 years 4 months ago by pete17971. Reason: spelling and correction

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13 years 4 months ago #36440 by originaldave
Replied by originaldave on topic Re:ESA/War Pension eligibilty
pete17971 wrote:

Nik wrote:

Thanks for the reply Pete
Im at 40% rate
So Basically because is was injured during my service My war pension is now classed as income which now losses my right to ESA making me £400 a month worse off,
Great news fight for your country get injured and get shafted by IDS!
government!


Hi Nik,

If you are currently in receipt of IB, that is contributory. On migration, provided you pass the WCA, you would either go into the support group (where as best as we know your contributory payments would continue) or WRAG group. If you are placed in the WRAG group your ESA should be classed as contributory for 1 year (again as far as we know). Only after a year would it become Income Related.

However do you claim War Pensioners Allowance for Lowered Standard of Occupation (ALSO)? and more importantly if you do, did you claim it before or after April 2009?.

Pete



it would have to be pre 2009 for ALSO I thought they had got rid it it in 2009

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13 years 4 months ago #36441 by Nik
Replied by Nik on topic Re:ESA/War Pension eligibilty
Pete
I have been on Incapacity benefit since 1995

I have brain damage with multiple complications backed up with countless neurotoxicology reports
Which i believe puts me in the support group(although i know is hard to get into)

And yes i do claim the Allowance for Lowered Standard of Occupation which hence looking at the big picture makes me now ineligible for ESA ?

Please correct me if i am wrong if im put into the Support group upon migration do i qualify for ESA ?
Sorry Pete i cannot get my head around all these new rules

Thank you Nik

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