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Hi, I've not worked for 7 years now due to neuropathic pain from my chiari but I'd like to try and see if I can manage to do a little work. I wondered if anyone is doing permitted work while on ESA Support Group and if its caused any problems with your benefits. I'm so scared that if I try and work the DWP will throw me off my benefits completely. Just need some advise.
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Jenaa kay58617
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Hey, you're allowed to work around 16 hours I think before your ESA benefits are capped. And you have to earn less than £ 115 (ish) a week.
Official words from ESA website
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 £115.50 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 £115.50 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.
You must tell the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) if you start doing permitted or supported 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.
Hope this helps.
kay58617 Jenaa
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Thanks, I've read the information on the DWP website. I just wondered if anyone has any experience of this. I'm worried that they will see that I'm working a little and throw me off my benefits so I'm just wanting some examples of people that have been doing permitted work and it hasn't effected their benefits. Hope this makes sense 😊
Jenaa kay58617
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Ah okay. It happened to my aunty. She works 15 hours a week and they cut her housing benefits by £20 with no change to her ESA. As long as you stick within the "wordings* then you should be fine.