Partial Capacity Benefit

ClmAlfie

My wife is on invalidity pension due to cancer in 2018.She is now in remission. She took a break from work while she was sick. During treatment she got a very bad spasm in her leg which she now has nerve damage in her leg/foot.

She also had other complications, thankfully she's ok now. She still has problem with her leg, has aches and pains in her joints and muscles especially her elbows and hands and she gets v tired.

She now wants to go back to work for few hours a week and feels that it will help her. She is going to apply for the partial capacity benefit.

I have gone back to work full time and l'm not claiming carer's benefit

My only concern is she could be assessed as mild and fit for work and she could lose her pension. If she does, it will mean she will have to go back to work full time in which she will find it very hard and impossible to do


My question is, are they very strict on assessment?

worlds goodest teecher

May I ask how your wife got on with the partial capacity? I myself am currently assessed as being in the "severe". Not really sure what criteria determines the various categories. From my dealing with them you pretty much need to be unable to work to qualify for 'profound'.