Budget Day.

Today is Budget Day. It's very much the lead story on all UK based news channels.

You can get a copy of the full Budget Report (222 pages as a .pdf) from the BBC website by clicking here.

This will open a new page or attempt to download the document to your computer.

There is some information within this document relating to the introduction of the Employment & Support Allowance (EAS) that is replacing Incapacity Benefit, Income Support & Jobseekers Allowance in October 2008.

Most notable from section 4.5 page 59,

"To ensure this increased work focus benefits current as well as future claimants,
from April 2010 all incapacity benefits claimants who started their claim before October
2008 will be required to take the Work Capability Assessment."

At the moment if you are subject to an " exemption due to "that he/she is in receipt of the highest rate care component of disability living allowance"..". With regard to an Incapacity Benefit Claim. Click here for a previous post on IB. It is not clear if this will continue when the EAS is introduced.

If you receive the "personal care component" at a lower rate, by April 2010. It is not clear How DLA interacts with this. I will try and get an answer. If however you are able to shed more light on this please email me or comment to this post.

Doing a search, not exhaustive, I found the following interesting:

Search using the key word "Disabled"

Page 57 - Section 4 (4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, Table 4.1 ,4.13, 4.14, 4.36 : Page 97 section 6.31 : Page 115 table A.22)

Search using the key word "Disability Living Allowance"

Page 136 Table A 3.1.

By all means look through it for yourself. If I have missed something please add a comment.

"Forewarned is forearmed"