Esa questionnaire - help please

stejobeth

Hello

My husband was on IS and received his ESA questionnaire in July last year. We sent it off and then waited till October for his reply. As you all know the stress of waiting for their verdict was horrible and was making me ill too . Anyway he got his letter and he had been put in the support group, no interview or medical needed. His ESA payments started in November.

This morning another questionnaire has arrived, is this right? Feel sick at the thought of having to go through it all again so soon

Thanks.

fogartyblue.

stejobeth wrote: »

Hello

My husband was on IS and received his ESA questionnaire in July last year. We sent it off and then waited till October for his reply. As you all know the stress of waiting for their verdict was horrible and was making me ill too . Anyway he got his letter and he had been put in the support group, no interview or medical needed. His ESA payments started in November.

This morning another questionnaire has arrived, is this right? Feel sick at the thought of having to go through it all again so soon

Thanks.

Quite and entirely possible. They can award ESA for a period as short as 3 months and as long as 3 years.

Sounds to me that they want to review after 9 months.
Surely you wouldn't have any objection to the review?

They are only checking to see if there has been an improvement or maybe a deterioration.

They are having to do this as they found under IB, very few claimants told the DWP that they had improved and needed to be taken off benefit. Most just continued to receive their money year in year out and said nothing.

broad-sword_2

Agree with forgartlyblue. Your husband was passed at scrutiny by ATOS Medical Services - DWP make the actual decision but in the absence of any evidence to the contary would not usually go against the reccomendations of ATOS. It does seem a short period before the next referral, can I ask, is there an expectation of improvement in your husband's condition - not perhaps as might seem obvious, but from a system looking to consider potential capabilty fo work?