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ESA medical- who passes?

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  • mardatha
    mardatha Posts: 15,612 Forumite
    Have passed this all onto her, thanks xxx
  • NASA_2
    NASA_2 Posts: 5,571 Forumite
    jonty1970 wrote: »
    ESA and DLA are more than JSA.
    The more ill people thrown off the those and onto JSA saves money.

    If you are too sick to work, you have to have benefits to live!
    For an awful lot of people, they never get better, so will cost more!

    the changes are to save money and people are being made worse with the stress of these forms and being found fit for work!
    That's nonsense actually. People who are on DLA will immediately get a Disability Premium on JSA whereas ESA claimants have to wait at least 13 weeks to get a component added to their claim the first of which is still lower than the DP.

    So for most disabled people they would actually get more by cliaming JSA and the DWP also have to maintain the jobsearch end of things too - also more expensive than the ESA work related regime.

    One conspiracy theory that really needs smashin.
  • NASA wrote: »
    That's nonsense actually. People who are on DLA will immediately get a Disability Premium on JSA whereas ESA claimants have to wait at least 13 weeks to get a component added to their claim the first of which is still lower than the DP.

    So for most disabled people they would actually get more by cliaming JSA and the DWP also have to maintain the jobsearch end of things too - also more expensive than the ESA work related regime.

    One conspiracy theory that really needs smashin.

    But this is MSE. Never let fact get in the way of a conspiracy theory.
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