I am presently working with a client who is in receipt of Income Support for herself and 2 children aged 10/11. total income is 182.43. I thought that she was entitled to the disabilty premium as she has a sick line for 52 weeks. How do we claim this as the DWP don't know what I am talking about!

I'm not familiar with the phrase "sick line" but it sounds as though you mean she has an incapacity credits claim with the ESA/IB section or that she has been given a backdated sick note.

In the former case then the DP should have been included. All you need to do is write to the IS section seeking a review of the IS award to include the DP from the relevant date.

In the latter case, your client will need to make a claim for IB with the sicknote and wait for her IFW to be established and then write for a review of IS in the same terms as above.

It's a sick note Tony

fiona-tess,

Sorry I was too late to edit my last post. Your client needs to have been incapable for work for 52 weeks. She won't get the dp just because her sick note is for that long.

I have had a couple of cases where the fact that a claimant has an entitlement to IS as a lone parent seems to have obscured the fact that they had been incapable of work for many years,seems like some sort of input error.

Good point, Sue. I'd assumed the sicknote was retrospective but, as Pete alludes to, if it is prospective, why not see about getting a backdated one for the required 52 weeks?

my thoughts exactly....now Tony please help me out with my yesterday's post about dp and med 5 in the 'incap related' forum !!

Hello, as far as I am aware, you can only get the Disability Premium if you have been on IB for 52 weeks, or you are in receipt of DLA. I hope this is of help to you.

Wed 06-May-09 03:51 PM by Tony Bowman

Other reasons for being awarded a DP summarised from the CPAG handbook:

- the claimant or partner gets AA or an equivalent payment in industrial injuries of war pension payments;
- special short-term rate IB for the terminally ill (i.e. incapable of work for 28 weeks;
- claimant or partner gets war pensioner's mobility supplement;
- the claimant or partner gets the disability element of working tax credit;
- the claimant or partner has an invalid trike or private care allowance due to disability;
- the claimant or partner gets SDA
- you are your partner are registered blind
- for joint claim JSA the claimant or partner has limited capability for work for at least 364 days or 196 days if terminall ill.