Limited work capability

nickycooke
nickycooke Online Community Member Posts: 1 Listener
edited January 29 in Autism and neurodiversity

My son Nicholas [removed by moderator]

Has Autism which was diagnosed at 4 he is now 51.

He has never had payed employment and now on Universal
Credit

I would like help to get him Limited work Capability as the keep telling me he can work

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  • OverlyAnxious
    OverlyAnxious Online Community Member Posts: 5,787 Championing

    Hi,

    Plenty of people have Autism and work, including some of the wealthiest people in the world. Getting LCWRA is not about the condition itself, it is about the limitations and restrictions that are specific to your son.

    If you haven't seen the list of descriptors for LCWRA, this link below shows them clearly. Only one of those descriptors needs to be met for a LCWRA award.

    Who goes into the Limited Capability for Work-Related Activity (LCWRA) group and how?

    Often people with Autism will have difficulty with social engagement, or coping with change, or communicating. We cannot tell which of those may be true for your sons case from the information provided so far. Hopefully that will help you decide which fits him best.

  • Biblioklept
    Biblioklept Online Community Member Posts: 638 Trailblazing

    Did he claim ESA or anything before he claimed UC?

  • Mary_Scope
    Mary_Scope Posts: 4,172 Scope Online Community Children and Family Specialists

    Hi @nickycooke and a warm welcome to the community from me!

    Here is some information on Limited Capability for Work-Related Activity that I hope will be helpful!

    It's lovely to have you here and I hope you enjoy your time on the community😊

  • azurasword
    azurasword Online Community Member Posts: 26 Contributor

    I'm on LCWRA and just recently learned about the work allowance, it's actually better than it was on ESA Support Group where you had to receive permission to work, you just got to make sure whatever he wants to work at, it doesn't conflict with information that helped with his claim.

    If you mean he's on the regular UC, you should maybe get him to write in his journal that he is too disabled for a regular job, and that he feels like he should be on the LCW/LCWRA group… likely the LCWRA group if he really has been struggling up to age 51 for a job! On LCW, he would still be expected to find work eventually, but also do the work based activities with chance of sanction if he doesn't.

    I have had a similar experience to your son, was on the regular jobseekers for ages (way before UC was a thing), looking for work, getting turned down at every interview within minutes (I can't make eye contact and the answers I was making were very simple), struggling along, getting forced into those work courses they have people who have been on the jobseekers for too long do, I have had actual work experience, but it never lasted, one job I walked out on after a couple of days as the boss had induced me into a panic attack, think that was the last straw when I went to see the girl who helped me get onto PIP about something… I forget what, we told her about this, and she told us about ESA at the time, back then it was a matter of getting the forms to move onto it.

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