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Income on contribution based ESA
RSISolutions
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Can you tell me the amount of income you can receive on contribution based ESA. Are there any limits?
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CR
Can you explain what you mean by income? Are you talking about work or other income e.g. pension income?
The rules for 'permitted work' and rules for other types of income are very different. As such we need to know exactly what 'income' is.
Maria
1. Holiday pay from an employer
2. charity donations - some paid directly into a mortgage account.
Hiya,
There are lots of rules regarding income for ESA, so to give a brief outline, Earnings are accounted for, less a £20 disregard - holiday pay normally counts as earnings (if the person has left the job, this can be different).
The exception to the general rule that earnings are accounted for, is 'Permitted Work'. In this case, where the DWP has authorised the work, you can earn either up to £20 or £115.50 depending on what kind of permitted work has been authorised.
As regards charity donations - I'm not 100% sure what you mean by this - however if it is someone paying towards the mortgage of an ESA claimant, this would probably count as income for the claimant. If the person paying towards the mortgage also had an interest in the mortgage this may be different, but I won't speculate on that.
Let us know if you have a specific scenario and we can go into more detail for you.
Kind regards,
Mary
An irregular charitable gifts counts towards savings.
Now I have two conflicting pieces of advice. Would it be possible for you to check your answer and tell me specifically which parts of the law refer to this ?