What is your opinion of what is likely to happen to a claimant getting SSP and IS at the end of the SSP period?

Will IS simply stop leaving client to make claims for ESA? or should there be some sort of hideous IS -> ESA transmutation with people fleeing from the cinema?

Sue

Para 7(d) of schedule 1B IS Regs was left unmolested by the ESA changes, but I reckon that once the SSP finishes (and therefore IS using old test of sickness), you then have to claim ESA, via the tougher test of LCW. Some will fall by the wayside at this point, and will become 'fit for work' because of the tougher test.

This will of course be comforting for those who were worried about their health.. '...if the State says I am now ready to thrust into the economy, then things can't be so bad..'

I have been pondering whether the fact that you are on IS post 27/10 (albeit by the temporary SSP route) would somehow transmute into an enduring entitlement, but I have not been able to persuade myself that this is so.

I seem to remember only rushing from the cinema once (Leytonstone Rialto, circa 1968), and that was in relation to the detonation of a stink bomb by my cousin Paul.

Just a thought.
If your client has been on IB within 104 weeks then they can get back on at the end of SSP via an ESA claim so my local DWP office says. With the IS top up.