ESA assessement rate to stop when appealing

They haven't as yet set out what they're doing.
The powers in the bill are enabling powers, and do not describe in detail what will happen.
http://www.dwp.gov.uk/consultations/2012/mandatory-consideration.shtml - is the relevant consultation, I encourage everyone who claims ESA to respond.
Specifically the fact that there is no time limit in the consultation mentioned, meaning that the decision may take some time, and noting that even if all DWP delays are ironed out, and this process occurs promptly, it may take considerable time to get evidence for the revision request to be properly assessed from doctors, consultants and such.
Perhaps outline cases in which this has been the case for you, and you would have been in hardship without the ESA appeal payment continuing during this period.


The current clause is as I understand it at http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/lbill/2010-2012/0124/2012124.pdf - clause 103.

duchy wrote: »

It simply means the DWP has no incentive to clear appeals in a timely manner

The insane part at the moment is that perhaps 80000 people who are on ESA appeal rate will fail at their tribunal.

Let's say that 50000 of these were appeals that were doomed to fail.

(For example, people who consider themselves unable to work, but do not meet any of the criteria).

The current state is that these cases are paid for an average of perhaps 8 months.
This is a total of 100 million pounds!!!

The amount of money spent initially deciding these cases is perhaps 20 pounds or so of DWP time.
It's half an hour per case, or around a million pounds.

But these come from different budgets!
So, rather than putting more effort into making the initial decision, they get rewarded for saving money on this small budget.

This means that the tribunals service gets overloaded, appeal time rises, budget for the tribunals service rise.

If the decisions were better made - and people were communicated to about the criteria things would work a lot better.