Esa timescale

Spoonhead88

Hello,

My SSP is ending today with the final payment is coming this Friday, Yesterday 29/03 I phoned up to start my ESA claim, I had all the information they asked for and I also sent my fit note to the address they gave me at 12 noon that day.

I was just wondering what kind of timescale it will be from making my phone call yesterday to receiving my first payment?

I'm guessing a few weeks but not sure.

Thanks for reading

TELLIT01

Your claim should be processed within about 10 working days of receipt. Your actual payment date depends on the last 2 digits of your National Insurance number. 00-19 is Monday, 20-39 Tuesday etc.

Spoonhead88

TELLIT01 wrote: »

Your claim should be processed within about 10 working days of receipt. Your actual payment date depends on the last 2 digits of your National Insurance number. 00-19 is Monday, 20-39 Tuesday etc.

Thank you, just to be clear will those ten working days be back paid or does the Benefit class as starting on the 10th working day after receipt?

paulap72

Should be back paid.

TELLIT01

Because you are claiming following SSP I don't think there are any 'waiting days', so you should be paid from the first day. If waiting days do now apply you won't get anything for the first 7 days, not 10 days.