Deliberately worsening condition in order to fail WCA.

rogerblack

I'm looking for the provisions in either the decision makers guide, or the ESA regs, that I seem to recall cover deliberately worsening your condition to fail the assessment.

I can't seem to find them - I was wondering if they may be capable of being read across to what happens if WRA worsens your condition, and if that may be a condition of entry into the support group.

(Upcoming appeal for support group)

Cpt.Scarlet

Are you referring to 35(2)?

PippaGirl_2

Oh, first of all I was reading that as someone was making themselves worse deliberately in order to fail the WCA!

I don't think it makes any difference from what I've heard, though the DWP do sometimes not call someone in for a face to face having read the ESA50 on that basis. Difficult to prove, that calling someone in, definitely does make someone worse.

sleepless_saver

PippaGirl wrote: »

Oh, first of all I was reading that as someone was making themselves worse deliberately in order to fail the WCA!

I don't think it makes any difference from what I've heard, though the DWP do sometimes not call someone in for a face to face having read the ESA50 on that basis. Difficult to prove, that calling someone in, definitely does make someone worse.

I took it that rogerblack meant work related activity, rather than the WCA.