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12 years 2 weeks ago - 12 years 2 weeks ago #99495 by A Kaplan
I know some people's benefit is frozen, hope I'm right on that, sorry if I've got it wrong and upset anyone, but is ESA frozen if you are in the Support Group.My friend says mine won't be frozen or kept below inflation because I'm in the Support Group ?
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12 years 2 weeks ago #99497 by bro58
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A Kaplan wrote: I know some people's benefit is frozen, hope I'm right on that, sorry if I've got it wrong and upset anyone, but is ESA frozen if you are in the Support Group.My friend says mine won't be frozen or kept below inflation because I'm in the Support Group ?


Hi AK,

The annual increase of benefits from April this year, (including ESA) can be found from the link on this post :

www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/forum?view=top...id=10&id=95856#95856

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12 years 2 weeks ago #99500 by Gordon
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A Kaplan wrote: I know some people's benefit is frozen, hope I'm right on that, sorry if I've got it wrong and upset anyone, but is ESA frozen if you are in the Support Group.My friend says mine won't be frozen or kept below inflation because I'm in the Support Group ?


I see from your previous posts that you were transferred from IB, if you are receiving a Transitional Payment because your IB was paid at a higher rate than ESA, then although you will receive the annual ESA increase, this will be matched by an identical decrease in your Transitional Payment, resulting in your overall payment staying the same. This will continue to be the case until the Transitional Payment is completely eroded or until April 2020 whichever is sooner.

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12 years 2 weeks ago #99501 by bro58
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Gordon wrote:

A Kaplan wrote: I know some people's benefit is frozen, hope I'm right on that, sorry if I've got it wrong and upset anyone, but is ESA frozen if you are in the Support Group.My friend says mine won't be frozen or kept below inflation because I'm in the Support Group ?


I see from your previous posts that you were transferred from IB, if you are receiving a Transitional Payment because your IB was paid at a higher rate than ESA, then although you will receive the annual ESA increase, this will be matched by an identical decrease in your Transitional Payment, resulting in your overall payment staying the same. This will continue to be the case until the Transitional Payment is completely eroded or until April 2020 whichever is sooner.

Gordon


Good catch G. :)

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