What is a unreasonable reason to miss a ESA interview

Viberduo

Just for future knowledge really, I am the sort of person who finds it hard to even leave the house due to extreme stress and depression so I can go over a week without leaving but lets say a family member arranges a few days holiday that would help me and a advisor wants to give me an appointment during that period would you think its unreasonable to go since the appointment can be arranged around the holiday?

Just asking because of in the past whenever the jobcentre or a job club offers me an appointment no matter how hard it is for me they get quite uptight if I ask for a different time or date i.e when I lived with parents and had 4 buses a day them offering me an appointment when I had a 3 hour wait after bus got in and further 2 hour wait after the appointment to get bus back and was expected to job search in that time(this was quite a few years ago back when they still had the cards not even when they had the touch screen pcs) and in a very small town with very high unemployment.

Even in recent years they seem to be actually annoyed if you say you cant go for an appoinment, I had social work appointments or doctors appointments and was told I had to cancel them despite them being there for my mental health or when I had to do a 1 day a week training course that I arranged myself which was a hour away by bus and started at 9.30am and they changed my sign on date to that day at 11am and told me to leave the course despite it being a guaranteed job at the end of it and meant to be on the jobcentre list of authorised places.

rogerblack

There are a very, very limited set of reasons to miss an appointment, and the rest is up to the adviser being more generous than the law strictly requires.
They can decide that almost anything is reasonable.

http://www.dwp.gov.uk/docs/dmgch53.pdf contains the guidance they should be working from. (for work-related activity)
See 53050 and the next several paragraphs.
And also the notes on good cause in http://www.dwp.gov.uk/docs/dmgch02.pdf and http://www.dwp.gov.uk/docs/dmgch42.pdf

In short - they may choose to let you reschedule.
They do not - in law have to.