Employment Support Allowance
{"Image DocumentName": "Employment Support Allowance", "Image ImageDescription": "3 Dec 2012: Sanctions. Applies all claimants in work related activity group regardless of type of ESA (70% of claimants) Fails to take part in work focused interviews or undertake work related activity (without good cause) Penalty: loss of \u00a371.70 pr week for as long as don\u2019t participate plus 1, 2 or 4wk addition. Possibility of hardship payments in limited circs. ESA claimants are unfit for work. Regardless of which type of ESA you receive contributory or income related you will be placed in one of two groups, work related activity or support. If you are placed in the work related activity group you will be expected to participate in up to six work focused interviews and participate in work related activity. Failure to attend or participate can see you lose \u00a371.70 per wk until you do participate with an additional penalty imposed on top of that. In both ESA and JSA cases claimants can make a claim for a hardship payment if sanctioned. Claimants should also appeal against any sanction decision which they believe to be wrongly imposed. In the majority of cases HB should not be lost during either of the aforementioned sanctions. May be problems for single claimants to qualify for hardship payments as the Decision Makers Guide ie the tool decision makers use within the DWP to make sense of the law says the following. DMG 41/12 : When a hardship payment is made. 26 A hardship payment is made when all the following conditions are satisfied. 1 the DM is satisfied that the claimant is or will be in hardship unless hardship payments are made (but see paragraph 27) and \u2026. 27 For the purposes of paragraph 26.1 a claimant is in hardship if. 1 their partner or. 2 a child or qualifying young person for whom they or their partner are responsible. Is or will be in hardship unless a hardship payment is made.", "Image XResolution": "37", "Image YResolution": "37", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Centimeter", "Image Software": "SlidePlayer", "Image YCbCrPositioning": "Centered"}