Incapacity AND Income Support?

Hi again,

I am on long-term Incapacity but since my DLA stopped I am really struggling to manage just on this. My forms and the DWP say that I get income support technically but it's £0 - no money. I don't know if this is just an error.

My friend is also on long-term IB AND gets Income Support on top - how does this work? I have also heard that there's a Disability component to Income Support - is this true?

I'm not even sure if Income Support actually exists any more either with all the shake up of benefits.

Thanks for any light you can shed on this

MinxCariad wrote:

Hi again,

I am on long-term Incapacity but since my DLA stopped I am really struggling to manage just on this. My forms and the DWP say that I get income support technically but it's £0 - no money. I don't know if this is just an error.

My friend is also on long-term IB AND gets Income Support on top - how does this work? I have also heard that there's a Disability component to Income Support - is this true?

I'm not even sure if Income Support actually exists any more either with all the shake up of benefits.

Thanks for any light you can shed on this

Hi,

Briefly, means tested benefits can be boosted by different premiums which increase ones 'appplicable amount' ie the amount of money the government says you need to live on.

However these are individual to each person and we cannot give advice on these sort of benefits without knowing information which should not be posted on an open forum.

Therefore we can only advise you to get some face to face assistance from a welfare rights agency or CAB etc who can go through all your details in depth and work out exactly what you may/may not be entitled to.

Pete