ESA Appeal & WFI's etc

Mrs Hurtyback wrote: In that case my comments about not having to undertake WFIs is mistaken

No problem, it's all so complicated - hard to explain from both sides of the coin. It's a dreadful situation to be left with no choice but to go on JSA even if you're appealing. I don't know if there was a small window where he could have had some leeway there but he had gone on what the person at the job centre said saying he'd lost his reconsideration (& in no uncertain terms).

Turns out the ESA appeal lot hadn't even got his request - which was submitted immediately - (allegedly) at that stage. It wasn't until I pointed out (some weeks later) that he would have got a letter if that was the case that he realised that something wasn't right & contacted them. So the reconsideration that should have been logged as being done from March now has a June date & - of course - after talking to them they asked for him to forward medical evidence.

As usual it's the claimants lost down a gap tied up in red tape that lose out (as I suspect they want us to).

Yes, I';d pointed that out before & we'd gone through the guide when he'd filled the form in. He tried to do that when he had the interview but the woman rushed & didn't listen to his answers. They'd seemingly tried to reschedule people that had appointments that day then suddenly they were asked in after all & he suspects that she was there 'under duress'/didn't normally do that job. He says he tried to make his objections felt but was on a hiding to nowhere.

It's just the 'you got nil points so you're fit for work & I don't care" (& the implication that he's lying) attitude that he's finding hard to deal with from the JC+ lot. Think it was a nasty shock after the advisor he'd been dealing with while he was in the ESA group (forgotten acronymn at moment lol).