permitted work

[solowheelie]

Hi

Does anyone know whether you can do 'permitted work' if you are in the ESA support group?

[SparkyMark]

The answer is yes, you can. There are certain stipulations though, depending on the type of work you want to do. I suggest that you invest in the Disability Rights Handbook Edition 40 which is available from Disability Rights UK. You will qualify for the concession price which is around £20, but it lays out everything you need to know on pages 214 and 215. IF you like, I can type the paragraphs relevant, but it will take me a while?

[solowheelie in reply to SparkyMark]

Thanks

[rosewine]

To save SparkyMark who has kindly offered to type it out for you if you go on the Disability Rights UK website and type Permitted Work their Factsheet 35 should come up and that will give you all the information you need.

The Disability Rights Handbook he mentions is an excellent publication and used to be my Bible at work when I was an advisor.

Hope you can find something that you enjoy doing.x

[solowheelie in reply to rosewine]

thanks the fact sheet was really useful

[TheAuthor]

I have never experienced anything of this nature but I want to genuinely wish you all the best of luck with finding the answers that you are looking for.

All my hopes and dreams for you

Ken

[solowheelie in reply to TheAuthor]

i think permitted work is a hidden secret

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disabilityrightsuk.org/work...

All on here do be careful as it does get a confusing on what is permitted? Bare in mind that if you are doing 16 hours or so they then may ask why are you not in the WAG?

Be Well

[Hidden]

Had a visit to the DWP for a "work related interview" and was yakking on about that with my "personal advisor" but said i just get exhausted my brain say's ok but my body say's no! he gave me a pip form and spoke about a few things then said a bit about UC then said come back next month to see someone else so i smell a rat

[solowheelie in reply to Hidden]

oh dear this sounds like they didn't actually hear what they are saying

[Hidden in reply to solowheelie]

They are basket cases at those places as they have selective hearing/amnesia

[trekster22]

Claiming ESA if you work

Your ESA isn’t usually affected if you either:

earn up to £20 a week

work for less than 16 hours a week and earn up to £104 a week, for 52 weeks or less (or for any length of time if you’re in the support group)

This is called ‘permitted work’.

You can also do ‘supported permitted work’ and earn up to £104 a week. This must be part of a treatment programme, or supervised by someone from a local council or voluntary organisation whose job it is to arrange work for disabled people.

There’s no limit to the number of hours per week or length of time you can do ‘supported permitted work’ for.

You must tell the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) if you start doing permitted work. They’ll send you form PW1 to fill in and send back to them.

Any volunteer work you do needs to be reported. It normally doesn’t affect your ESA.

gov.uk/employment-support-a...

[solowheelie in reply to trekster22]

thanks this was very helpful x