Informing DWP of changes - when?

[id6052]

if your illness is to be less than 2 weeks, contact your jobcentre and explain your situation, and request a "jsa 28" form

 

as i understand it you are only allowed a maximum of 2 periods of illness in a 12 month period, so if this is your first time, you should be okay

[id6052]

however if the property is occupied by a relative who is either a pensioner or disabled, the value of the property is disregarded

[id6052]

Do you have any more information on this please? Brother is disabled.

 

 

The Employment and Support Allowance Regulations 2008

 

SCHEDULE 9

CAPITAL TO BE DISREGARDED

 

4. Any premises occupied in whole or in part by—

(a)a partner or relative of a single claimant or any member of the family as the home where that person is aged 60 or over or is incapacitated;

(b)the former partner of a claimant as the home; but this provision is not to apply where the former partner is a person from whom the claimant is estranged or divorced or with whom the person formed a civil partnership that has been dissolved.

 

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/794/schedule/9/made

 

This is the original ESA legislation, I suspect the reference to age 60 will have been amended since to reflect the increase in qualifying age for pension credit, but can't locate the updated version

[id6052]

personally, i would say the date of your move is that the date you start sleeping overnight at the new address

[id6052]

generally benefit income is paid in respect of a period

 

for the period it is paid in respect of it is income, after that period it becomes capital