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Jane80
                              

Welfare Rights Officer, Notts County Council
Member since
27th Mar 2008

The end of the ESA / IS loophole
Mon 07-Dec-09 04:25 PM

Mon 07-Dec-09 07:25 PM by shawn

(Edited to fix link)

This was sad news!

Continued entitlement to income support for those whose non disability grounds have ended

I read this as also preventing people on SSP from claiming IS, have I got that right?

And if so what can they claim as they are excluded from ESA?

Jane

  

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Replies to this topic
RE: The end of the ESA / IS loophole, Scott, 08th Dec 2009, #1
RE: The end of the ESA / IS loophole, Jane80, 08th Dec 2009, #2
RE: The end of the ESA / IS loophole, tom_iow, 08th Dec 2009, #3
RE: The end of the ESA / IS loophole, darlocab, 09th Dec 2009, #4

Scott
                              

Welfare Rights Worker, Leeds City Council, Welfare Rights Unit
Member since
26th Jun 2006

RE: The end of the ESA / IS loophole
Tue 08-Dec-09 08:25 AM

Paragraphs 7(a) and (b) of schedule 1B of the IS Regs are to be revoked but entitlement to Income Support when getting SSP falls under 7(d) which is not affected by the new regs. Therefore someone in receipt of SSP will still be in a prescribed category for Income Support.

  

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Jane80
                              

Welfare Rights Officer, Notts County Council
Member since
27th Mar 2008

RE: The end of the ESA / IS loophole
Tue 08-Dec-09 08:27 AM

Thanks, I was getting worried there!

  

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tom_iow
                              

Adviser, Isle of Wight CAB
Member since
08th Dec 2009

RE: The end of the ESA / IS loophole
Tue 08-Dec-09 05:04 PM

I thought it was funny they referred to 'when this was discovered'.

Simon at CPAG told us about it long before ESA came in. Obviously only those who actually wrote the rules didn't 'discover' it.

  

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darlocab
                              

welfare benefits, darlington citizens advice bureau
Member since
03rd Mar 2009

RE: The end of the ESA / IS loophole
Wed 09-Dec-09 08:27 AM

According to the latest DMG the DWP will contact all those whose IS was wrongly ended, in the new year, and will re-instates IS "If requested!"

  

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