Hi autistic-gremlin,
In my experience your award for disability discrimination doesn't have an affect on your New Style ESA payments.
As for an employer's obligations to repay ESA that is new to me. I have heard of contracts of employment that stipulate an employee who receives full pay for 6 months and then half pay for 6 months must repay any ESA they receive to the employer. But you would need to contact an Employment lawyer about the legitimacy of that.
As far as taxation is concerned I have very little knowledge.
Hope this helps,
David
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