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Answer is no.
You may be eligible for some disability payments from UK but you would need to check and meet strict criteria
I live in The Canary Islands and can still get my DLA care and my state pension
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Employment and support allowance (ESA)
You continue to be entitled to ESA during a temporary absence from GB if you are receiving NHS treatment outside GB. Otherwise, if you continue to satisfy the other conditions of entitlement and the absense is unlikely to exceed 52 weeks, your benefit continues for 4 weeks, or 26 weeks if you are abroad solely for medical treatment or to accompany a dependent child for their treatment. In each case, the treatment must be by an appropriately qualified person for a condition that began before you go abroad. If you are being treated, the condition must be directly related to your limited capability for work.
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Can you get paid for working two jobs when you only work one?
No and anyone who thinks its appropriate or reasonable to do so is a joke.
There are enough scroungers without disabled people making false claims and making it more difficult for their peers.
It depends on which benefits you are claiming, I spent 10 years on my sail boat and was allowed to claim incapacity benefit but as soon as I returned to UK the SS changed me from incapacity benefit to ESA which you cannot claim whilst abroad any longer than 28 days and even that is decided by the SS also I do not know of any benefit you can claim from the USA if you are british if you are american then you may be able to but from what I saw it is dificult to get anything fast also any medical needs you have to pay for up front except if you are in danger of death there and then, America is the richest nation on earth and the worse on earth in treatment of their people.
Good luck with your travels if you are on incapacity benefit don't inform them until you have left or they will change you from incapacity benefit to ESA which if you leave the uk they stop paying you.
Regards Poppy Ann.
Maybe it's not such a bad thing they tightening up on payouts a bit then leaving - those who truly need the help receiving it!
Incapacity Benefit has now been phased out and replaced by ESA after parliament passed the Welfare Reform Act of 2007, so it is unlikely that anyone is still on it, as they have migrated most people now. Some countries have arrangements but that means that you can still claim under the UK, not that you would get two lots of payments which seems to be what you are asking about.
Hi, if you are receiving Incapacity Benefit before you leave the uk then you can keep receiving it when abroad for ever (as long as you are still disabled/ill) the government cannot stop it whilst you are still out of the country but as soon as you return they will move you from Incapacity benefit to ESA which they do not have to pay whilst out of the country.
I live in the US what benefits are you referring to?
After reading all of the responses I realize the benefits you're referring to must be disability. (SSI OR SSDI) If you do come to the US and for some reason you're allowed to apply for disability then you have to understand that in most cases it takes anywhere from 2 to 4 years before you're even approved. And in some cases even longer. I know someone who is at least as disabled as I am if not worse and she's been waiting 8 years. Getting disability in the US is crazy hard. And an inconsistent approval rating.
I got it within a year and yet so many other people wait years to get approved. My brother-in-law got approved on the first request for disability which is almost unheard of.
I don't think you mentioned your age but the rules for disability change once you hit 50 making it a little easier to get an approval
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