esa reassessment delays

Chrissy wrote:

micksville wrote: Thanks Gordon...I trust b and w more than anyone on benefit issues and I know they never base anything on assumption. Just wondered about this though after reading this thread as the addendum to the esa updated guide makes it sound quite certain that maximus are looking at spring 201u b4 restarting reassesments. Im sure the b and w office got this from somewhere

Hi, the information you require is on page 81 of the .pdf. That pdf was written this morning, (11th March, so is hot off the press)
As the pdf was only written in march 2015, and it says reassessments that come up will be deferred for another year, so, to me that means spring 2016. I'm only a member though, but, I cannot imagine wrong info being put in the pdf book.

See : Here.

bro58

I should imagine if they are defferring re assessments until 2016, prior to that only those with coc etc, then those who are already to be re assessed in 2016 will be done hot of the press. This ensures that Maximus is keeping up to date, which means those still waiting to be re assessed may be mega lucky and wait a real long time til an ESA pops thru the post.
Unfortunately as mine is due in 2016, no doubt I will be first in the rotten queue as I was on transfer from IB to ESA SG.
( My IB was not due to be re looked at until 2015, however I was sent my first ESA I believe in 2011 which does not bode well for PIP as an Indefitite at HRDLAC/HRDLAM I therefore expect to be first in the rotten queue again )

I got my first (and only so far) ESA in 2011 too (I think!) - transferred from IB. I have an indefinite DLA award too and share your worries about maybe being one of the first to be reassessed for PIP. Although they say it will be random. I don't know if the ESAs were done in alphabetical order (and area).

I see some people on the forum have been asked to attend medicals without actually being sent a new esa50 first. Is this going to be a new thing? How is it supposed to work?

I would imagine that the people on indefinite DLA awards would be getting assessed for PIP last, but that is just me speculating.

The DWP say they are planning to start referring indefinite DLA award people to PIP assessments from October 2015 onwards. I think pusscatsmum and I were wondering whether we would be amongst the first in the queue in that group because we had early IB to ESA migrations when that process started.