Incapacity benefit -ESA?

When you are changed from IB over to the new ESA you will attend a medical (WCA) to see if you are capable of work. If you pass the WCA you will be started on ESA payments. If you fail you have 2 options:

Appeal the WCA decision: once the appeal letter is recieved your ESA payments will be restarted but at the £71pw basic rate until the appeal is looked at in a few months.

Apply for JSA: ask for backdating to the date your ESA/IB claim was stopped, it takes up to 4 weeks to get a full payment through but after 2 weeks you can request an Emergency Payment from JSA. You'll signo n every fortnight and be paid 3 working days later.

If the appeal fails you can appeal again to the IRS which takes even longer but I'm unsure whether your paymetns will continue during that time. You may need to apply for JSA until the appeal is heard.

Also, if you fail to attend a WCA your IB/ESA will be stopped. You will need to submit good cause which is usually rejected. You will then need to apply for ESA but they will take up to 3 months to pay as you need to attend a WCA first. That means you'll need to aplpy for JSA in the meantime... in essence, don't miss any medical or else!

As I have an understanding of it, the federal government is applying and rushing up the Work capacity comparison for present Incapacity improvement claimants, which is the equal now because the evaluation for ESA, so they do not ought to put them on it first. It was once the private capacity comparison for IB which, as you say, used to be more lax. One factor is solely how rate mighty it's going to be, rather a lot is going to be spent on doing the assessments, and the WCA has been so wrong that a big number of choices are going to attraction tribunals which can be costly, and some thing like 40% of selections are being reversed, which is excellent for equity when individuals aren't match for work but a nasty sign that expensive mistakes are being made which is probably not recouped from the extra numbers who may just get jobs and pay taxes. After which they're planning the entire new DLA scientific examinations, and they're going to generate more appeals. If the Tories insist on attacking the negative and vulnerable they should at least be in a position enough to reduce the welfare budget and not broaden it. A different factor they are fairly taking a danger on is the housing advantage cuts, do they really see landlords dropping rents or are they prepared for the consequences of debt and homelessness and even larger stress on social housing? They're growing the Discretionary Housing advantage fund so they may be undoubtedly anticipating a lot more purposes, again extra administrative money and time.

You will have to sign on or produce a sick note from the doctors or you will not get any money. If you are ill you can ask them to look at your case again and appeal if you think that they are wrong.