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IS on Disability Grounds
I have a client still on IS on ground of disability. We are in a UC full service area. Am I right in thinking that he will skip the ESA transfer process now and just be part of the managed migration if nothing changes?
Yes there’s provision in the Transitional Provisions to migrate people direct to UC. Dunno about the migration regs though.
Gives one a lot of confidence that a person is still on IS due to disability and therefore should have been transferred to ESA since that was introduced in 2008, that the migration of a three times larger group of people from legacy benefits to UC will all go smoothly eh?
Yes, I was a bit shocked. Thanks folks.
Thought DWP were still insisting that no-one left on IB or IS for these reasons!
That’s what I thought but he is and so is another of my clients.
We’ve got a couple as well.
We deduced that DWP thought they’d finished from the absence of budget for the migration this year iirc. It’s probably just been swollen up by UC instead.
Ha, ha, you’re probably right
Gives one a lot of confidence that a person is still on IS due to disability and therefore should have been transferred to ESA since that was introduced in 2008, that the migration of a three times larger group of people from legacy benefits to UC will all go smoothly eh?
and of course the transfer to esa went smoothly with no official errors…or errors of law (until you are forced into accepting it always was official error)