Failed esa assessment

Kayslay

pmlindyloo wrote: »

So you have these options:

1. Apply for JSA. You can do this as you have been found fit for work. If after you have claimed and had your first interview you are unable to attend interviews etc you are allowed to have up to 13 weeks extended sickness (you would need fit notes) If, at a later date you were diagnosed with a specific illness you could then make a new claim for ESA on the basis that this is a new condition.

2. Appeal the ESA decision and claim the assessment rate of ESA during this.
From your description you are saying that this is a fluctuating condition. As such you will need professional support for your appeal as you will need to rely on the concept of being unable to perform a descriptor repeatedly/safely/reliably. Your 'presenting' condition is not 'backed up' by any medical evidence which will also mean that professional advice from CAB or a welfare rights advisor would be sensible as to how you manage your appeal.

Of course, your priority is to get better. Looking at your previous threads it would seem a good idea to follow up on your last 'consultant's' advice to see one of the people who was recommended.

Sorry I did not even see this post. Thanks for the advice I've been on jsa since that post and in a bit of a limbo, they keep trying to push me to jobs I can't do.

Anyway I will see the consultants who I've been recommended after I try one more medication my current gastroenterologist recommends I try (amitriptyline)