CONTRIBUTION BASED ESA IN THE SUPPORT GROUP

Sorry, can't find the answer to the following question:

My partner has been awarded "contribution based ESA" and been put into the "support group" without the need for a medical. The decision took them about 9 weeks from the date of filling in the form.

1) are the payments limited to 365 days?
2) are they during the first 365 days or afterwards means-tested?

Thanks for your reply.
Wolf

As your partner has been placed into the Support Group of CB ESA time limiting does not apply and means testing does not apply.

May I respectfully request you don't use upper case letters throughout your posts as it makes it very difficult for users who use text to speech software to read your post.

Thank you