ESA when both partners are disabled

alexandrajj

My OH has received their form for the ESA transition. I want to understand how this will affect us.

My OH gets IB and DLA (HRC HRM). I get SDA and DLA (HRC, LRM). I have not received my transition 'call up' yet. We get IS top-up currently and the claim is in my name.

OH has not worked for 10 years. When OH has their ESA assessment how will this affect us if they (a) get put in the support group or (b) gets put in the WRAG group ( I can't ever see them being found fit to work).

Will we still get IS until I get called for the ESA transition?

What possible "evidence" do you send with your form??? I have no idea what we are doing with this new form. I understand DLA forms but this is so different. I have hospital reports, hospital appointment cards but none of these relate to the ESA descriptors.

My OH would find it near-on impossible to go to an assessment centre. Can you request a home assessment? How? What are the disadvantages of a home assessment? The DLA doctor came to our bungalow.

jonliv

Sorry I do not know the answer to all of your questions but when I was migrated to ESA from Invalidity benefit I filled in the ESA50 and sent it off I did not supply any further information/evidence There is a part on the form that asks for the names and addresses of you GP and Hospital Consultant I know the DWP sent a letter to my GP requesting confirmation of what I had put on the ESA50 I expect the DWP looked at information already held and I was placed in the ESA (C) Support Group

I did not have an ATOS Medical

Also on the ESA50 there is a part that asks if you can or cannot make it to an assessment point if so required

Good Luck Hope you can get the answers to your other questions

It is not half as worrisome as you think it might be

Jono

amus

alexandrajj wrote: »

My OH has received their form for the ESA transition. I want to understand how this will affect us.

My OH gets IB and DLA (HRC HRM). I get SDA and DLA (HRC, LRM). I have not received my transition 'call up' yet. We get IS top-up currently and the claim is in my name.

OH has not worked for 10 years. When OH has their ESA assessment how will this affect us if they (a) get put in the support group or (b) gets put in the WRAG group ( I can't ever see them being found fit to work).

Will we still get IS until I get called for the ESA transition?

What possible "evidence" do you send with your form??? I have no idea what we are doing with this new form. I understand DLA forms but this is so different. I have hospital reports, hospital appointment cards but none of these relate to the ESA descriptors.

My OH would find it near-on impossible to go to an assessment centre. Can you request a home assessment? How? What are the disadvantages of a home assessment? The DLA doctor came to our bungalow.

Hmm Ive never come across this one before but AFAIK IS and ESA are overlapping benefits so I dont think you would get both. It may be that you will have to move on to your partners ESA claim. You would not get any less than what you are getting now as your benefit is transitionally protected. You will either get the same amount you are getting now or you will get more.

My advice would be to send in all the recent medical evidence you have for your partner, it is up to the medical professional to see where your husband may fit into the descriptors.

If your husband requires a home visit he would need to provide a letter from his Dr requesting a home visit. I would advise you to send this in with your ESA50 form also.

HTH.

System

monkeymouth wrote: »

Do you not each claim Carers Allowance? Can't see how you would both be able to satisfy the 35 hours a week test given that you both need 24 hour round the clock care to get HRC! But heyho, who cares, you might as well join the happy band - everybody and anybody seems to be on that bandwagon at the moment!

Really depends on their disabilities, for example if one partner had MH problems and the other had a physical disability

Though i can see how it might contradict nif they had the same problems

System

monkeymouth wrote: »

To be awarded HRC for a mental health problem would, in my mind, preclude them from even attempting to care for someone, never mind do it for 35 hours a week. They must be in a pretty bad way with the requirement of needing 24 hour care!

You only need to be on MRC to get Carers though...

alexandrajj

Question was about ESA not our DLA awards or carers allowance. However since you ask, neither of us claim carers allowance for the other because quite simply neither of us can say we do 35+ hours a week for the other. We have people who come in to help bus but they don't/can't claim carers allowance.