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Employment Tribunal Award and New Style ESA

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1 month 1 week ago #295390 by autistic-gremlin
Employment Tribunal Award and New Style ESA was created by autistic-gremlin
Hi,
I have won an employment tribunal case against a former employerfor disability discrimination and am claiming new-style ESA.

I am in the support group.

Does anyone know how these things interact?

In particular
- I am getting an award for past loss of earnings due to discrimination - does this affect my ESA?
- Does the employer have to pay back the ESA I received?
- How is this taxed?

Thank you

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1 month 1 week ago - 1 month 1 week ago #295417 by David
Hi autistic-gremlin,
In my experience your award for disability discrimination doesn't have an affect on your New Style ESA payments.
As for an employer's obligations to repay ESA that is new to me. I have heard of contracts of employment that stipulate an employee who receives full pay for 6 months and then half pay for 6 months must repay any ESA they receive to the employer. But you would need to contact an Employment lawyer about the legitimacy of that.
As far as taxation is concerned I have very little knowledge.
Hope this helps,
David

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