Traning and esa

kaur

Can I keep my esa and training payment both ??? 
Im on esa support grp and nhs 111 training for a month before I start part time employment permitted work earning no more than £120 per week. I have the permitted work forms but im not sure if I keep both training payments and esa or how the dwp work out...plz advise me 

gnmeads

Hi 
Welcome to the Scope community. You will keep your ESA up to, as you say when you earn more than £120 a week. After that I think it doesn't just stop, it goes down gradually depending on the amount you work

kaur

Thanks I may have to do fulltime training for free in order to prevent esa stopping

CockneyRebel

Have you agreed with DWP that you can do this as permitted work ?
You should ask DWP about your training time

CR

kaur

I rang dwp they said they will b stopping esa because training for a month is 16 hrs over per week. They will call me back to explain the process permitted work will b in may 2018.

CockneyRebel

Hopefully they will not close your claim but keep it as an underlying benefit while you are training and exeeding the hours and income

CR

kaur

I hope so too