hardship payments

hello

Does anyone know how much hardship payments are, are they a percentage of basic allowance
anyhelp would be grateful

thanks

Hi gm,

There is more information on Hardship Payments just over half way down this page :

www.cpag.org.uk/content/esa-and-sanction...ore-hard-times-ahead

bro58

hello

if your on esa wrag and need to apply for hardship payments due to sanctions do you still keep your wrag componant,

would you get £42.60 plus the wrag componant for hardship payments

hope this makes sense

thanks in advanced

gazzmg wrote: hello

if your on esa wrag and need to apply for hardship payments due to sanctions do you still keep your wrag componant,

would you get £42.60 plus the wrag componant for hardship payments

hope this makes sense

thanks in advanced

Yes, you should gm,

See this extract :

"The amount of the hardship payment is 60 per cent of the personal allowance – £42.60 at present. As the work-related activity component is paid as normal, claimants who manage to get a hardship payment won’t be financially much worse off than at present.

For example, a single person would receive £70.75 (£42.60 + £28.15) compared to £71 (personal allowance but no work-related activity component) under the previous set of sanctions.

There is nothing in the rules to limit the period of time that a hardship payment can be paid for."

From the CPAG link that I posted previously :

www.cpag.org.uk/content/esa-and-sanction...ore-hard-times-ahead

The crux of the matter is whether you can manage to get The Hardship Payment.

bro58