esa appeal from wrag to support

epitome

If she is writing, needs to make it clear she is asking for a supersession...

WRAG payments last for 1 year, but there will be a scheduled reassessment date on her record. She should call and ask when her next ESA assessment is due, if they say a general answer like "2 years" or "I don't know, we can't tell you that", ask them to look in JA791 and it will give an actual date like 23/04/2015 this is only an approximation because they will send the ESA50 out about 1 month before this date and then it is upto ATOS when they will see her..... although it is an approximation it is good for you to know when it will be.

And like I said she should ask for a callback from the DWP ESA Appeals section to confirm that her case is still at reconsideration, This sounds to me to be VERY wrong, that's why I'm telling you to get the callback.

nashly

Cheers again Epitome, found out today that she cannot get a letter from her doctor backing up her claim as the local health board have barred doctors from writing support letters due because the board think doctors should be treating patients not writing letters.

tomtontom

nashly wrote: »

Cheers again Epitome, found out today that she cannot get a letter from her doctor backing up her claim as the local health board have barred doctors from writing support letters due because the board think doctors should be treating patients not writing letters.

That would not stop the GP writing one as a private service, you would of course have to pay for this.

nashly

tomtontom wrote: »

That would not stop the GP writing one as a private service, you would of course have to pay for this.

Good idea

HB58

Some GPs won't even do a letter privately. If yours falls into this category you can ask to see your medical records and take copies of anything helpful. They could be a charge for this.

mrchicken

if anyone can make sense of my case please help

i was on esa wrag for a couple of years with my condition worsening. Also in receipt of dla with both componnants. With added pressure of the job centre pursuing myself to go to work related appointments i coudnt attend i logged an appeal in march 2013. My appeal was heard in may 2014 and wad allowed. The tribunal placed me into the support group. I recieved a letter from esa stating that i have changed to support group. And they are back dating my benefit from the 27/05/14. My tribunal date was the 30/05/14. Confusing right.
to confuse things further i has a home assessment on the 27/05/14 for PIP. I RANG the jc today and the lady informed myself that i changed to support group following my appeal. So why have they back dated to the 27th?????.
sirly they should of backed the difference from wrag to support group from the date i appealed. Confused!

nannytone_2

they will only pay the support group rate from the time that the decision was made and not the date that you asked them to reconsider

HB58

nannytone wrote: »

they will only pay the support group rate from the time that the decision was made and not the date that you asked them to reconsider

That is true with supersessions (where the claimant is reassessed due to a change of circumstances) but an appeal effectively remakes the original decision and payments should be backdated to that date.

nannytone_2

HB58 wrote: »

That is true with supersessions (where the claimant is reassessed due to a change of circumstances) but an appeal effectively remakes the original decision and payments should be backdated to that date.

i assumed that it was a supersession as the poster said they had been on ESA for a couple of years and so well outside the appeal time

HB58

nannytone wrote: »

i assumed that it was a supersession as the poster said they had been on ESA for a couple of years and so well outside the appeal time

Yes, I thought that but the OP also talks about a 'tribunal'.

mrchicken, please will you confirm whether this was an appeals tribunal or a reassessment due to changes in your condition?