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Placed in the support group :)
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Just a quick update to my previous posts regarding my husbands ESA claim. He has been placed in the support group until October. The benefits people have said they are only awarding the support group side of ESA for 6 months at a time. I don't know if this is now 100% true but anyway the good news is we got the award. I may request a copy of the report just to see what has been noted.
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Mmmmmm wonder why they are only awarding the Support Group 6 months at a time, just gonna cause move havoc for people.......0
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I have been in the support group for nearly two years. I was reassessed after 9 months and expect reassessment around December 2011.I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over and through me. When it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
When the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.0 -
I have been in the support group for nearly two years. I was reassessed after 9 months and expect reassessment around December 2011.
What I don't understand is if your placed in the Support Group why do they keep assessing you every few months! I could maybe understand once a year fair enough, just seem like they are hounding people.0 -
6 months!!!
After my assessment for ESA in early 2010 I was put in the Support Group with a review date of June 2014 which is my 65th birthday, when ESA will cease and I take up my OAP.0 -
OneHubbyOneSon4Debts wrote: »What I don't understand is if your placed in the Support Group why do they keep assessing you every few months! I could maybe understand once a year fair enough, just seem like they are hounding people.
Because you could improve in six months and not qualify for the support group any more?
Some people, as detailed above, are being placed in the support group for much longer.
My husband (on Incapacity Benefit) has also documentation to say he will not be assessed again until 2014, when he will have his State Pension.(AKA HRH_MUngo)
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seven-day-weekend wrote: »Because you could improve in six months and not qualify for the support group any more.
In which case that makes little sense as I was given 4 1/2 years which means they will never re-assess me (on paper they won't!).0 -
In which case that makes little sense as I was given 4 1/2 years which means they will never re-assess me (on paper they won't!).
Some people will get better, or be able to manage their condition better. Others won't.
So, some people will be assessed more often than others.
It makes sense to me, anyway.
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seven-day-weekend wrote: »Because you could improve in six months and not qualify for the support group any more.
True, but according to all the horror stories I've read on here, you need to be wheeled in in your coffin to get in the Support Group
*makes note to oneself* don't listen to tittle-tattle.
No, seriously I really thought it was only the people who were in dire health that only got put into the Support Group that why I didn't think it was fair to hound them.0 -
seven-day-weekend wrote: »Because you could improve in six months and not qualify for the support group any more?
Some people, as detailed above, are being placed in the support group for much longer.
My husband (on Incapacity Benefit) has also documentation to say he will not be assessed again until 2014, when he will have his State Pension.
My husband's brain wont recover at all , niether will his heart or kidneys because they cant recover from ishemic cerebral disease (brain and its still recovering from his stroke too), ishemic heart disaease and kidney failure a hair's breath from needing dialysis, my husband is very ill and they accepted that by putting him in the support group under the criteira 29 and 35 which aknowledge that working could kill him.
We dont have a review date, they didnt bother to send any paperwork out.0 -
My husband's brain wont recover at all , niether will his heart or kidneys because they cant recover from ishemic cerebral disease (brain and its still recovering from his stroke too), ishemic heart disaease and kidney failure a hair's breath from needing dialysis, my husband is very ill and they accepted that by putting him in the support group under the criteira 29 and 35 which aknowledge that working could kill him.
We dont have a review date, they didnt bother to send any paperwork out.
sunnyone, I'm so very sorry to hear that, please don't think I was being flippant with my remark above. Its just that I'm hearing all different stories about ESA, don't know what to believe half the time.
My love and best wishes to you and yours XxXxXx0
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