ESA

Hi Sharon

Firstly to move to contribution ESA, you would need to show that you have sufficient NI Contributions paid in - there are 2 conditions:
First contribution condition - in one of the last two complete tax years, you must have paid Class 1 or 2 contributions on relevant earnings at the lower earnings limit for at least 26 weeks. This means you must have worked for at least 26 weeks of the last two complete tax years; and
Second contribution condition - in both of the last two complete tax years, you must have paid or been credited with, Class 1 or 2 contributions to the value of 50 times the lower earnings limit.
The 2 tax years that are relevant are the ones that were completed before the benefit year in which your period of limited capability for work began.

You need to seek specialist advice from a Welfare Rights Organisation who can take all your circumstances into consideration; you can find your local Welfare Rights Organisation to help you with advice by clicking on the link below and putting in your post code, it will then come up with a MAP with a list of agencies. advicelocal.uk

Gary

Sharon

IIDB is treated as income for ESA(IR) and will reduce the amount £ for £.

It sounds as if your calculated ESA(IR) amount is now less than what would be paid with ESA(CB) so the latter only is now being paid.

Gordon