We'll who would have believed it? Just looking for ESA 2012 rates when I came across this little gem on the new government portal website.

https://www.gov.uk/employment-support-allowance/what-youll-get

Work-related support and interviews

 

After 13 weeks of ESA you’ll be put into a group.

 

In the Work-Related Activity Group - you’ll be expected to look for work and go to regular interviews with an adviser. The adviser can help with things like job goals, improving your skills, work-related issues. Your ESA may stop if you don’t take part in these interviews. Contribution-based ESA lasts 1 year if you’re put into the Work-Related Activity Group.

Now I know the DWP and ministers want it to be JSA light but as far as I'm aware preparation and looking for are two separate and fundamentally different things?

You can complain highlight errors on the site by going to the home page, scroll down and select contact us.

Thanks for this

:Eligibility for Employment n Support Allowance:

Assuming I haven't missed some new legislation, Part 3 of the notes is err ......

It suggests that anyone with savings of more than £16,000 is ineligible for the contribution based flavour of employment n support allowance. So far as I know, savings (apart from any income derived from them) are irrelevant to contribution based benefits.

Margaret.

contribution based flavour ESA tastes like chocolate in the support group, but baked beans (yuck) in WRAG.

Mmmmmm my Money Saving Expert thread has been demoted and moved to Discussion time

Consumer champions my So rather terse report saying they should pull their finger out has been sent

Also submitted this as a news article on the site which can not be named TNK

Not sure what estellyns' been taking but that's as coherent as the advice on gov.uk you lookin for a job?

Not sure what estellyns' been taking but that's as coherent as the advice on gov.uk you lookin for a job?

I was referring to margaret talking about 'flavours' of ESA, and was colourfully trying to make the point that contribution based ESA has two flavours - a nice one if you're in the support group, and a nasty cheap one if in wRAG and fall foul of the 365 day time limit.

Maybe its the opiates getting to me.

once contribution benefits are completely scrapped (I think is the end game) then there will be a bigger driving force around saying welfare is just handouts not social security.

GOV.UK

Work n Pensions appear to have been doing some homework.

Still lacking in detail but, so far as I can see, what they've now written about employment n support allowance is correct.

How'd they get their first attempt so wrong :?:.

A very Margaret.

Who's so entitled to chocolate but'll probably have to put up with baked beans, or worse!