ESA Can you live on fresh air

smileytiger

lyniced wrote: »

I have been getting it for nearly 2 years. Should I contact them?

You should have had a phone call - OH did about 2 months ago - i knew as i'd read all about it on here:D
It wasn't mentioned anywhere on his renewal letter/April rise notification - which i thought was stupid personally.

lyniced

smileytiger wrote: »

You should have had a phone call - OH did about 2 months ago - i knew as i'd read all about it on here:D
It wasn't mentioned anywhere on his renewal letter/April rise notification - which i thought was stupid personally.

No phone call. Unless they left a message. Really worried now. Will I have to pay it all back, if I've been over-paid?

smileytiger

You can't have been overpaid as it only stops from tomorrow - in fact it's paid in arrears so you might get a payment at beginning of next month and that will be your final one.
EG - my OH got his fortnightly payment last Wed - so two weeks from that date (next Wed) we will get a payment covering the days between that last payment and April 30th

Don't worry about being overpaid - you're still entitled until tomorrow;)

sleepless_saver

lyniced wrote: »

No phone call. Unless they left a message. Really worried now. Will I have to pay it all back, if I've been over-paid?

Are you in the support group or the work related activity group (where you have to attend work focused interviews)?

lyniced

sleepless_saver wrote: »

Are you in the support group or the work related activity group (where you have to attend work focused interviews)?

Support group

Torry_Quine

lyniced wrote: »

Support group

Then there is no time limit, all the anguish could have been ended if you'd clarified this earlier! You asked about the WRAG group and didn't say that it wasn't the group you were in. Oops, sorry for the worry I may have inadvertantly given you.

smileytiger

ok - crossed wires here - if you're in Support Group - you'll continue to get paid it's only people in WRAG that are losing their benefits.

sleepless_saver

lyniced wrote: »

Support group

I thought so! As Torry Quine says, you have no need to worry as the 12 month time limit doesn't apply to you.

lyniced

Torry_Quine wrote: »

Then there is no time limit, all the anguish could have been ended if you'd clarified this earlier! You asked about the WRAG group and didn't say that it wasn't the group you were in. Oops, sorry for the worry I may have inadvertantly given you.

Well to be honest ESA has confused me from day one. I have read and re-read the leaflet and i must be mrs thick, cos it makes no sense to me. That's why I asked what WRAG meant. A new acronym I hadnt heard of, you see.

All I know is I am now permanently in a wheelchair (due to an illness you would never have heard of) and now cannot work. I did mention I got DLA.

Anyhow, how long does ESA continue whilst in the support group?

Torry_Quine

lyniced wrote: »

Well to be honest ESA has confused me from day one. I have read and re-read the leaflet and i must be mrs thick, cos it makes no sense to me. That's why I asked what WRAG meant. A new acronym I hadnt heard of, you see.

All I know is I am now permanently in a wheelchair (due to an illness you would never have heard of) and now cannot work. I did mention I got DLA.

Anyhow, how long does ESA continue whilst in the support group?

In the support group it continues indefinitely as long as you fulfill the criteria.

Getting DLA is nothing to do with which group you are in. People can work and get it so that tells me nothing.

Sorry though to hear that you are a full time wheelchair user.