ESA Claim form/partner

Hi all.. Thanks for your replies..
In shock at the min..
I filled out all the forms for myself only, leaving all partners details as not claiming income related.. they wrote to me saying I was getting £67 p/w .. today they write saying I am intitled to NOTHING.. I have not paid enough contributions and because I am living with someone, even though they do not have his details, they say he have too much income and therefore I dont get anything.
I have been turned down for dissability and my only hope is the job centre but I cannot work and have a doctors note saying so.. (dated for 3 months from last week).. an I suppose to live on nothing?

1littleduck wrote:

Hi all.. Thanks for your replies..
In shock at the min..
I filled out all the forms for myself only, leaving all partners details as not claiming income related.. they wrote to me saying I was getting £67 p/w .. today they write saying I am intitled to NOTHING.. I have not paid enough contributions and because I am living with someone, even though they do not have his details, they say he have too much income and therefore I dont get anything.
I have been turned down for dissability and my only hope is the job centre but I cannot work and have a doctors note saying so.. (dated for 3 months from last week).. an I suppose to live on nothing?

Hi,

You really do need to get some face to face advice from Welfare Rights/CAB etc to go through your work history and NI account history to work out if the DWP are right to say you are not entitled to Contributory Benefit.

If they are correct, sadly it would only then be possible to claim the income related benefit, which as you have found out does mean your partners income would be looked at and taken into account. Thus it is possible you would not qualify based on partners income/savings etc.

In the eyes of the law it is expected your partner should be able to support you if his/her earnings mean you are not entitled to means tested benefit.

Pete

Hi, thanks for that! .. I will get advice from CAB.. I cant for the life of me see why ... If I share a house with someone of the oppersite sex I can claim as an individuial but if I sleep with them then I cant.. This means that sleeping with someone makes them responsible for keeping you...prostitution enforced by the law!

OK.. feeling very depressed now.. I have a appointment with the CBA on Monday..
I am being forced into having an operation for a new knee, that a consultant advises me not to have as I cant have another on at 70.., in order to be fit for work.
I have moved into my partners home, we have known each other for about 1 year and he is now forced to look after me because I am not intitled to any benefits although I have spend most of my life working up until the last few years when my knees started.

If you have spent most of your life working, maybe there *has* been somne mistake regarding your NI contributions?