IB to ESA

Mrs Hurtyback wrote: Glad to hear that you now have your decision and that it was, largely, in your favour. Thanks for letting us know

Mrs Hurtyback wrote: Hopefully NI will learn from the PIP debacle over here!

Gordon wrote:

Plonker wrote: I certainly hope so, but will not hold my breath. I was wondering what will happen to my ESA as I have an Occ.Pension. It was disregarded as I was on high Care of DLA, now I am on middle rate,will I lose some ESA?

Best regards as always

P

The rules are not entirely clear, but I think it likely that the disregard will be removed, the rules for occupational pension under ESA is that there is an £85/week disregard followed by a deduction of £1/week for every £2/week, so if your pension was £100/week then the deduction would be £7.50/week (£100;00 - £85.00 = £15.00 / 2 = £7.50)

Please do not assume that the DWP will do this automatically, they may not be aware of the change in your DLA, and we have had a lot of IB claimants with pensions where there is no record on the computer of the pension being paid (because it was disregarded), so you should contact your local DWP office with full details.

Just to add an additional warning, if this is the first time that the ESA people have heard of the pension they may question whether it should have been disregarded in the first place for ESA, this is a result of them not previously having the data, just quote the IB disregard for HRC.

Gordon