DLA and ESA

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Folar wrote: »

But I've not been to Tribunal?????

I don't know why this keeps getting assumed. I am currently appealing the initial decision to put me in WRAG and not the Support Group. I am just trying to find out what I can use as evidence to send to the DWP to hopefully reconsider my ESA. As I have just been awarded HRM and HRC I wanted to know if I could use this towards my evidence.

I think that what is being said is that yes you can use the DLA assessment as evidence of mobility for ESA, as you can for other similar descriptors.

But it does come with a warning that they are not required to consider the two as they are different benefits.

In my example being assessed as not being able to walk 30 metres for DLA and being awarded HRM, does not entitle or guarantee that they will use that evidence to accept that you can't walk 50 metres for ESA.
They could simply say that they did not believe that you couldn't walk 50 metres despite DLA accepting that you can't walk 30 metres!!

Sounds strange I know - tell me about it.

But the two benefits are treated as two different benefits.