ESA Appeal - Time Scale

rogerblack

Congratulations!

Muttleythefrog

Chorlie wrote: »

Just an update on my Appeal...

I have today received a letter advising of a change in my ESA, a decision on my capability for work means that I've been move from the Work Related Activity Group to the Support Group...

No Tribunal, No Medical and No Extra Evidence (other than the A4 letter I included with the GL24 form).

A Happy Chorlie...

Well done. Your appeal letter obviously convinced DWP in their automatic reconsideration that the Support Gp descriptor did apply.

NASA_2

And goes to prove that reconsiderations are not a waste of time like some suggest they are. DWP change things in claimants favour more often than people think.

Chorlie

NASA wrote: »

And goes to prove that reconsiderations are not a waste of time like some suggest they are. DWP change things in claimants favour more often than people think.

Fully agree NASA, looking back at it I think (even tho at the time I didn't think I had) made the common mistake of not going into enough details about my disability on the application form. It's those little things that we all just put up with, thinking it's not worth mentioning or trying to keep it in the space provided on the form so you miss things out to make it fit.

On the Appeal form I just wrote 'See Seperate Sheet' in the box to explain why you're appealing and typed (not hand written this time) a full A4 sheet giving full details of my disability & how it effects me, but keeping it soley to the direct point of decision I thought they had wrong.

rogerblack

Chorlie wrote: »

Fully agree NASA, looking back at it I think (even tho at the time I didn't think I had) made the common mistake of not going into enough details about my disability on the application form. It's those little things that we all just put up with, thinking it's not worth mentioning or trying to keep it in the space provided on the form so you miss things out to make it fit.

Though there probably aren't statistics about this, I suspect that very, very few reconsiderations are made if the client just says 'I want to appeal because I don't think the decision was right' - or similar - without adding to the documentation they have.
This is simply as there is a reluctance to revise a plausible decision, only one which is clearly wrong.
Giving more information - ideally at the ESA50 stage - will give a much better likelihood of the correct outcome.

NASA_2

Chorlie wrote: »

Fully agree NASA, looking back at it I think (even tho at the time I didn't think I had) made the common mistake of not going into enough details about my disability on the application form. It's those little things that we all just put up with, thinking it's not worth mentioning or trying to keep it in the space provided on the form so you miss things out to make it fit.

On the Appeal form I just wrote 'See Seperate Sheet' in the box to explain why you're appealing and typed (not hand written this time) a full A4 sheet giving full details of my disability & how it effects me, but keeping it soley to the direct point of decision I thought they had wrong.

Yes, lots of people do just write, 'I wish to appeal because your decision was wrong' and leave it at that. The only way a reconsideration will be succesful on that basis is if the original decision was so obviously wrong that the new decision maker can revise the decision.

Supplying as much 'relevant' information is always the way to go.