Help Need New Leg

[MW Smith Ceramics]

Sorry to hear about your leg Ben, that's a while with no income.....i think you can apply for incapacity benefit if you have no critical illness cover.......I think it's called ( esa - employment support allowance ) - I think you would be eligible for that mate, gotta be worth a shot as better than nothing coming in......good luck and Hope you get back to work soon

 

[hmtiling]

Speedy recovery buddy

 

[On one]

Sorry to hear about your leg Ben, that's a while with no income.....i think you can apply for incapacity benefit if you have no critical illness cover.......I think it's called ( esa - employment support allowance ) - I think you would be eligible for that mate, gotta be worth a shot as better than nothing coming in......good luck and Hope you get back to work soon

ESA or whatever it is now?........don't build your hopes up.
I had an ATOS medical following surgery on an arthritic elbow......absolute sham of a medical ...........result..........''your fit to work'' one good elbow and I was still on Tramadol painkillers at the time.

 

[SJPurdy]

ESA is for anyone who can't work because of sickness or disability and aren't getting statutory sick pay (eg the self employed).
You need a sick note from your doctor and then you can claim:
contributory ESA if you have paid enough national insurance contributions;
or,
income related ESA if your (and partners I think) income and capital (savings) are low enough.

The citizensadvise.org.uk web site is very helpful, and more details are on the gov.uk web site.
claims are made through jobcentreplus and can be done by filling out a form or doing it (the same details) over the phone (0800 055 6688).

Remember that all your business outgoings (keeping van on road, phone and internet costs etc ) are still valid even though you are temporarily not working. Also if you do get ESA it is taxable and needs to be entered on your tax return.

Best of luck with a full speedy recovery.

 

[J Sid]

didn't the event / club organisers have insurance?

 

[bcd-87]

didn't the event / club organisers have insurance?

I'm still in a lot of pain and the tramadol sends me to sleep, my plan is to follow up why there was no ambulance on site why they only had half a bottle of gas & air ( which I used up in 30 mins ) ambulance took 2 hrs to get to me I had no pain relief for 1.5 hours..

 

[bcd-87]

ESA is for anyone who can't work because of sickness or disability and aren't getting statutory sick pay (eg the self employed).
You need a sick note from your doctor and then you can claim:
contributory ESA if you have paid enough national insurance contributions;
or,
income related ESA if your (and partners I think) income and capital (savings) are low enough.

The citizensadvise.org.uk web site is very helpful, and more details are on the gov.uk web site.
claims are made through jobcentreplus and can be done by filling out a form or doing it (the same details) over the phone (0800 055 6688).

Remember that all your business outgoings (keeping van on road, phone and internet costs etc ) are still valid even though you are temporarily not working. Also if you do get ESA it is taxable and needs to be entered on your tax return.

Best of luck with a full speedy recovery.

Thanks you

 

[bcd-87]

ESA or whatever it is now?........don't build your hopes up.
I had an ATOS medical following surgery on an arthritic elbow......absolute sham of a medical ...........result..........''your fit to work'' one good elbow and I was still on Tramadol painkillers at the time.

Thank you

 

[bcd-87]

Speedy recovery buddy

Cheers mate

 

[bcd-87]

Sorry to hear about your leg Ben, that's a while with no income.....i think you can apply for incapacity benefit if you have no critical illness cover.......I think it's called ( esa - employment support allowance ) - I think you would be eligible for that mate, gotta be worth a shot as better than nothing coming in......good luck and Hope you get back to work soon

Thanks, I'm trying not to think about money to much.. I have two young kids and my wife doesn't work.. We are looking into what help we could get

Last few months haven't been great with problems with the van and being slow with work this couldn't have come at a worse time..

But it's happened and I will deal with it got to keep fighting