Dividends

cando

Are you allowed to accept dividends if you are on contribution based ESA

wilko

Dividends are income and count the same as savings, rental income, share's evt ect.

Sam_Alumni

Hi @cando
Welcome to the community, I have asked @BenefitsTrainingCo to take a look at your question to see if they can help.

BenefitsTrainingCo

Hi cando,

Dividends (ie payments from stocks and shares) are ignored as both income and capital for contribution based employment and support allowance.

If you are receiving any top up of income related employment and support allowance, or are receiving any other means-tested benefit such as housing benefit, then this income will need to be declared and will affect the amount of benefit you receive.

regards,

Michael

lighthouse

Hello 

I get ESA contributions based and I'm in the support group. ESA told me there is a weekly earnings limit. Does that include shareholder dividends? 

Would a tax refund affect the ESA claim?

chiarieds

Hello @lighthouse - & welcome to the community. Your query has been answered by calcotti here: https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/76903/dividends-and-tax-refund#latest