ESA - advice please

melbury

Submitted ESA application a couple of weeks ago and today received a letter saying my OH has to attend a Pathway to Work interview at local Jobcentre Plus.

I find this very confusing because I understood that following submitting the form you had to attend the dreaded medical assessment.

How can they be trying to get him back to work when he hasn't even been seen for a medical assessment - that is crazy:mad:

Has this happened to anyone else? Presumably he has to keep on getting sick notes from his GP?

Thanks

Molly41

Its just standard for every new claimant. You attend a meeting just to make sure all is ok with your form and benefit entitlement.

healy

melbury wrote: »

Submitted ESA application a couple of weeks ago and today received a letter saying my OH has to attend a Pathway to Work interview at local Jobcentre Plus.

I find this very confusing because I understood that following submitting the form you had to attend the dreaded medical assessment.

How can they be trying to get him back to work when he hasn't even been seen for a medical assessment - that is crazy:mad:

Has this happened to anyone else? Presumably he has to keep on getting sick notes from his GP?

Thanks

Sometimes the Pathways to Work interview comes before the medical assessment, this is not unusual.

He needs to continue submitting sick notes until he passes the WCA (assuming that he is successful).

melbury

healy wrote: »

Sometimes the Pathways to Work interview comes before the medical assessment, this is not unusual.

He needs to continue submitting sick notes until he passes the WCA (assuming that he is successful).

Which, if the posts on here are anything to go by, he won't be successful.

melbury

Molly41 wrote: »

Its just standard for every new claimant. You attend a meeting just to make sure all is ok with your form and benefit entitlement.

So it is not an interview where they are pushing you to get back to work ASAP then?

healy

melbury wrote: »

Which, if the posts on here are anything to go by, he won't be successful.

He could be successful but the odds are against it, though obviously it depends on how sick/disabled he is.

melbury

I just want to send them a letter and say "forget interviews, just send lots of money.":D

stargazer59

I had one of these yesterday, 40 minutes of being talked at, didnt understand a word he said lol

he had some pieces of paper and was marking anything appropriate with A PINK HIGHLIGHTER, .

I told him i had my medical booked for next week and he smiled, i asked what to do if i failed or passed whichever way you look at it, i understood his answer, you appeal and keep going to a4e for the rest !

Then he printed out the details of what he had said.

When i got home i read it and the only thing he got right is that i wont be fit for work until after my hip surgeries!

Also that if i cant get employed i should sell on Amazon from home!!!:rotfl:

littlerat

I had one of these a couple or 3 weeks before my medical (where I was put in support group right away BTW, so sometimes goes easily), and basically it was checking all the details were right, she also got me forms for DLA as she thought I may be entitled to that as well, as far as I remember she was perfectly friendly actually. Dad assures me she was nice

Annoying of course if going is a struggle though.

cit_k

stargazer59 wrote: »

Also that if i cant get employed i should sell on Amazon from home!!!:rotfl:

Did they include details of how to do so legally, ie how to set up as a business, declare tax, etc etc, did they offer help with that? Or did it just say sell amazon stuff from home??

melbury

stargazer59 wrote: »

I had one of these yesterday, 40 minutes of being talked at, didnt understand a word he said lol

he had some pieces of paper and was marking anything appropriate with A PINK HIGHLIGHTER, .

I told him i had my medical booked for next week and he smiled, i asked what to do if i failed or passed whichever way you look at it, i understood his answer, you appeal and keep going to a4e for the rest !

Then he printed out the details of what he had said.

When i got home i read it and the only thing he got right is that i wont be fit for work until after my hip surgeries!

Also that if i cant get employed i should sell on Amazon from home!!!:rotfl:

Please put me out of misery - what is a4e?

Ta!