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UC and students
due to UC only being live in inverness in Scotland and even then to a very restricted client group I haven’t yet dealt with a real query yet so I apologise for this very basic question.
Having a look through the CPAG book it looks like disabled students will need to have DLA/PIP and limited capability for work to receive UC as a full time student.
does this mean that students will need to have actually passed the assessment before they can access UC or can they get access via “being treated as having limited capability for work” at the start of the claim?
It looks that way. How does it work, do you suppose - claim UC and wait for a WCA, then it starts if you pass the medical?
I think you’ll be OK if you are on chemo or terminally ill etc. but not if you simply have a medical certificate, as as far as I’m aware, a med cert doesn’t mean much under UC?
[ Edited: 9 Oct 2014 at 05:24 pm by Edmund Shepherd ]It looks that way. How does it work, do you suppose - claim UC and wait for a WCA, then it starts if you pass the medical?
I think you’ll be OK if you are on chemo or terminally ill etc. but not if you simply have a medical certificate, as as far as I’m aware, a med cert doesn’t mean much under UC?
seems that way to me but i could be way off. we are responding to the waiting days consultation thats going on at the moment so this is the first real time i have had to dig in to the detail of UC.
we get a lot of benefit advice referals for project search which is an education course initially but the intention is for it to lead to a job in the place your learning (usually a hospital) so we have issues already when clients cant be classed as disabled students right away and are waiting for PIP decisions.
the ones i get referred have learning disabilities and its quite common for those with lower to milder learning disabilities to come through the system without DLA unfortunately.