xcempt from capabilty test

toggleuk wrote:

Forgive me if i'm being simplistic, but who are people that are 'EXEMPT'? Who/What type of illness/condition qualifies for such a description?
This also sounds to me as if in future there will be NO unemployment benefit whatsoever.
You will be a)ordinary fit unemployed and on JSA, partially sick but fit for all work, (ESA Work Group) and really sick but fit for some work with support (ESA Support Group)...or am I being naive??

exempt on IB if your blind o on higher rate care of DLA

not sure of the others

Can claimants that are being transferred without a medical be placed in either work or support group or is it just those destined for the support that will be assessed in this way?

Thanks

You're not automatically exempt from a WCA for ESA on the basis of visual impairment, although since it is possible to get enough points for ESA on the basis of a certain level of visual impairment, a decision maker could make a decision on the basis of medical evidence from a specialist.

Dave - I really don't think it's helpful to go through the exceptions one at a time and it wasn't the exceptions relating to IB that were asked about.

Survivor wrote:

You're not automatically exempt from a WCA for ESA on the basis of visual impairment, although since it is possible to get enough points for ESA on the basis of a certain level of visual impairment, a decision maker could make a decision on the basis of medical evidence from a specialist.

Dave - I really don't think it's helpful to go through the exceptions one at a time and it wasn't the exceptions relating to IB that were asked about.

The way I read the post that was not clear and I posted the only 2 IB ones I knew

Can claimants that are being transferred without a medical be placed in either work or support group or is it just those destined for the support that will be assessed in this way?

Can anyone answer my query? Thanks

Hi Catherine, it's probably not much help but a close friend was transfered from IB to ESA recently without a medical assessment.