Qualifying Benefits And Fast Track Procedure (Info)

• Severe Disablement Allowance
   
• Short Term Incapacity Benefit at the higher rate

Or

• Long Term Incapacity Benefit

• Income Support ( IS)
   
• Income Based Jobseekers Allowance ( JSA)
   
• Contributions-based Employment and Support Allowance ( ESA)
   
• Housing Benefit or Council Tax Benefit which includes a Disability Premium or Higher Pensioner Premium

• Attendance Allowance
   
• Disability Living Allowance
   
• Mobility Supplement or constant attendance allowance paid with a war pension or industrial injuries disablement benefit

Note: The person must be entitled to receive the qualifying benefit in his or her own right. An appointee for another person receiving any of the benefits listed above as an appointee does not satisfy the disability conditions simply by receiving the benefit
 

And

For one or more of the 56 days immediately preceding the start of that period of training for work, they were receiving one of the following

• Short term Incapacity Benefit at the higher rate
   
• Long term Incapacity Benefit
   
• Severe Disablement Allowance

They have received for 140 days, the last of which falls in the 56 days immediately before the date of claim one of the following

• Statutory Sick Pay
   
• Short Term Incapacity Benefit at the lower rate
   
• Income Support on the grounds of incapacity for work
   
• Employment and Support Allowance on the grounds of limited capability for work
   
• National Insurance credits for a period of 20 weeks on account of either incapacity or limited capability for work
   
• Occupational Sick Pay

And

• They have a disability at the date of claim which is likely to last for at least 6 months or for the rest of their life
   
• Their gross earnings are at least 20% less than they were before the disability began, with a minimum reduction of £15.00 (gross) per week

The 140 days / 20 weeks need not be a continuous period, it can be made up of any periods of receipt which are separated by 8 weeks or less.

The qualifying benefit counts for the new claim for the purposes of being disadvantaged in getting a job

• Where a claim for Working Tax Credit ( WTC) is made or treated as made within 8 weeks of the end of a previous award of WTC or Disabled Persons Tax Credit (DPTC) for that claimant

And

• The claim which resulted in that award was based on one of the qualifying benefits at points 1, 2 or 6, above