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Oct 04
2008
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I have just heard from the jobcentre people. I don't know why they didn't just tell me this in the first place and not waste my time. Apparently I don't qualify for incapacity benefit, not because I am not unwell (I am) but because I haven't paid enough NI contributions in any one of the three tax years that count - 6 April 2004 to 5 April 2007. Since I told them I had come back to the UK on 4th December last year and had worked from the beginning of January for six months before I gave up, you would have thought they could have checked that first.
So now, no incapacity, no income



