LCWRA and work

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Does anyone work and also receive LCWRA? Needing advice. If so can you tell me how please.

Limited Capacity for Work Related Activity means just that. I highly doubt you can claim while working 🤦🏻‍♀️

I think you can do up to 12 hours.

You can work on LCWRA as long as the nature of your work does not contradict the reason you can not work... eg you can't walk far, but get a job as a postie.

There is no limit on the hours you can do. Everyone on LCWRA has a work allowance, and that depends on if you get the housing element or not.
If you claim the housing element, you can earn up to £411 per month. If you don't, then you can earn up to £684.
If you earn more than those amounts, then your UC is deducted 55p for every £1 over that you earn.

I hope that helps.

Of course you can work and claim. It's limited capability, not no capability.

You can work but I don't know how much. Definitely not full time.

It depends on your illnesses. If you are claiming because you can't handle your finances, but you work as a financial controller, it would look odd. Or you claim you can't walk far but work as a personal trainer or running coach? Or you can't feed yourself but are working as a chef?

So you get the idea...

I get LCWRA and work 20 hours a week but it doesn’t contradict the reason why I was assessed as having limited capability.

Slightly worried I’m going to get torn apart on here for this and told that I’m a scrounger.

My partner gets LCWRA (we don’t apply for it directly, it was just randomly awarded following a heart attack) and he’s now back at work full time as a gardener, so doing physical work. We honestly don’t know what grounds it was awarded on so haven’t questioned it but it sounds like we should?!

From my experience - you are able to get employment but they understand that it may not be sustainable.

I do some paid voluntary work - which is declared; but this is very much adhoc to my own physical/mental health. But there is no assumption to carry out work, or to not work. It is a buffer that allows them to understand that this is someone who may end up in and out of job seekers due to unstable opportunities in working life.

Yes, he needs to declare a change of circumstances (working) in his UC journal. Otherwise he is going to be in danger of owing the DWP money. As he is working full time, then he will have been getting too much in UC.