Uk benefits on sickness wanting a foreign visa.

If I applied for a visa are my benefits stopped?

If you leave to the UK for extended periods, usually 12 weeks or more, you have to inform the benefit office and your benefits will likely stop.

If you move to Indonesia based on your other topic, why would you be entitled to UK benefits??

smallville1979 wrote: ↑

Thu Oct 08, 2020 6:04 pm

If I applied for a visa are my benefits stopped?

Phone the numbers on your benefits award letters and ask them.
other-countries/bali-t307199.html#p1946583

CR001 wrote: ↑

Thu Oct 08, 2020 6:34 pm

If you leave to the UK for extended periods, usually 12 weeks or more, you have to inform the benefit office and your benefits will likely stop.

It's not 12 weeks.

Benefit fraud

You’re committing benefit fraud if you:

do not tell the office that pays your benefit you’re going abroad, even if it’s just for a visit
https://www.gov.uk/claim-benefits-abroad

From that link; and by sickness benefits I assume ESA?

Employment and Support Allowance (ESA)

You can get ESA for up to 4 weeks if you go abroad. Talk to your local Jobcentre Plus before you go.
Going abroad for more than 4 weeks but less than a year

Tell your local Jobcentre Plus if you’re going abroad for more than 4 weeks.

You can carry on getting contribution-based ESA for up to 26 weeks if you’re going abroad for medical treatment for yourself or your child.

It does not matter which country you go to.

Going abroad for more than a year

You can get contribution-based ESA in the EEA or Switzerland if you’re eligible and if you’ve paid enough National Insurance contributions.
https://www.gov.uk/claim-benefits-abroa ... y-benefits


However Universal Credit, which is replacing 6 low income benefits: including Income based ESA; will not pay out of the UK.




However if you also claim DLA or the replacement benefit PIP

Going abroad temporarily

You can claim the following benefits if you’re going abroad for up to 13 weeks (or 26 weeks if it’s for medical treatment):

Attendance Allowance
Disability Living Allowance
Personal Independence Payment

https://www.gov.uk/claim-benefits-abroa ... y-benefits

I am just asking if I apply for a visa do I lose benefits.
I am hoping to leave the UK one day. would need to check out a few places.

I want to leave one day. I might want to visit bali before so asking if benefits stopped for a visit.

CR001 wrote: ↑

Thu Oct 08, 2020 6:34 pm

If you leave to the UK for extended periods, usually 12 weeks or more, you have to inform the benefit office and your benefits will likely stop.

If you move to Indonesia based on your other topic, why would you be entitled to UK benefits??