ESA and permanent health insurance

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This appears to be your first post, so you may want to have a look at the following FAQ which explains where everything is on the site.

Welcome to Benefits and Work

I notice that your forum name may be your real name, have a look at the following

My full name is showing, how can I stop it?

With regard your PHI payments, I woud recommend, if you have not done so already, that you get face to face advice, as these payments can effect your ESA payments, see

Where to get advice?

If you are receiving contribution based ESA, which I would assume you are then the time you can do so while in the WRAG is limited to one year, see

12 Month Limit for ESA(CB)

After this time you may be eligible for income related ESA, subject to a means test.

Members of the WRAG have to attend Work Focussed Interview and may be forwarded to the the Work Programme, see

Work Focussed Interviews

Work Programme

If you have further questions, please come back to the forum.

Gordon

Ian Furnass wrote:

Thanks for the quick reply. I am getting incapacity benefit at the moment so does this mean when it changes to ESA it will stop after 12 months. I will not pass a means test
Thanks
Ian

Only if you are placed in the WRAG, if you are placed in the Support Group there is no limit, have a look at the link I included in my previous post for more details.

Gordon