esa payments

Sorry to request help on something that may have been discussed before, my plea for help is in response to a recent post by Badders, for two and a half years I have been in receipt of cb based esa in the support group, I receive full care and mobility dla, I have a work pension of £719, widow pension of £53 and another work pension of £147 all three are monthly figures after income tax.
I was totally ignorant of the benefit system and with your help managed to fumble through what I thought successfully, on receiving esa I thought I was entitled to free prescriptions, glasses dental treatment ect and showed my esa letter to chemist , dentist optician all who noted number. After my second dental app I received a letter from an agency that they could not find my esa number on phoning them and talking to them I was told I had to pay for all above treatments, shocked. Then reading Badders item I may have to pay more back.
More though what I receive in cb esa approx.£5500 annually I pay exactly the same amount in income tax to dwp, when I queried the dwp voice on the phone looked at the computer said I didn't pay tax after phoning tax office for amonth for reply said I did!!!!! contact dwp for why!!!!, brain give way. Help I am in my mid 50`s.

Hi roger,

I have to ask whether DWP are aware of your private pension? Although you are on contributory ESA, this amount can be reduced for claimants who recieve more than £85 per week pension . If you have not already informed DWP of this you should do so as soon as possible in order to reduce potential overpayments.

Hi Gordon, Mrs H thank you for the responses though I am still uncertain! sorry my post was hurried and I have Parkinson`s which makes it difficult to type.
I received letters from hmrc in March stating where my tax allowance was going of which over £5000 of this allowance or exactly what I get in esa allowance was going to the Dwp, therefore in a context I don't get esa? , this was the same previous tax year.
When I phoned the DWP they said I don't pay tax I phoned HMRC they said I did!?. Dwp are aware of my pensions as informed when I first claimed, they have never taken or reduced my esa payments I was unaware of this until I saw message on Badders topic?.
I have requested i think its called H C 3 for prescriptions for which I do not have to pay which has been passed
thank you for your time again

Hello Roger55,

I receive an occupational pension and although I declared it at the start of my ESA claim, it took them a long time to sort out the deduction which resulted in a £6000 overpayment of CB ESA which is being deducted from my current payment at the rate of £18.99 per week. The income tax for the ESA and my occupational pension is calculated by HMRC and deducted from my occupational pension through my tax code (total tax due on ESA and Occupational Pension is deducted). It sounds like you are in a similar position so the tax code you receive from HMRC reflects all of your income from all sources and the tax thats due on all your income.