ESA has been rejected due to my medical

can anyone give me advice, I suffer from cervical dystonia (torticollis) and hip and back problems and have been taken of my ESA and been advised to claim job seekers allowance I have been told if I claim this then that's me saying that I am fit for work, on most days I can barely walk due to my condition, I'm in a lot of pain most of the time and wouldn't be able to hold down a job for 2 days, I have worked all my life until I was diagnosed with my condition and was paid off due to ill health, before my medical I asked my doctor for a letter backing up my condition and he said if they need to know anything then they can contact him, I called the job centre today and they said I would have to come down tomorrow but I told them I couldn't due to a hospital appointment in which I waited over a year for, so she cheekily said well you will have to come down within the next 20 mins, I said I cant as I'm barely able to walk today, so she cheekily said hold on so then came back on the phone and said you will have to be here on Thursday at 2, I said some days are worse than others so if I cant make can I re arrange, she said if your not here then there will be no benefit, but I find this strange as if I go am I not saying that I'm fit for work even though I know that i'm not, i'm in a state of shock by this on how I was spoken too and the medical person also lied and said that I agreed that I could do stuff that I know I told her I couldn't, I feel like I'm fighting a losing battle and the stress of this is making my condition worse, can anyone give any advice, thanks in advance, sharon

Sharon

Have you not tried to appeal the decision to stop your ESA? You have the right to appeal; it sounds as though you haven't given all the evidence you could to support your claim - did you not include evidence from your GP in with your application form? Perhaps if it's too late to appeal, you might wait and make a fresh claim at a later date, this time supported by your medical evidence?

In the meantime, you could phone the DWP and explain your medical condition/situation, and see what (if anything) they suggest. You could object to the attitude of the person you spoke to at the Job Centre, though I don't know whether or not that would get you anywhere. Obviously you are going to have to try to get there for your appointment - you don't get the benefit if you don't attend.

If you are having financial problems, go to your local government website and run through the benefits check list they have there - it might offer some other financial support.

hi, I have given all my medical evidence at the medical, she photo copied some things, all appointments that I have and who I'm seeing ie pain clinic, physio etc, I don't know which way to go as I have given all the evidence I can including all the drugs that has been prescribed for me, I was also told from the long term illness place that if I claim job seekers then I am admitting that I'm fit for work and this is far from true

hi this is my first time being rejected, I do intend to fight my case but everytime I ask any doctors or physios or pain management doctors for a letter to back me up they all say if DWP need to know anything its them that contacts the doctors and they don't supply letters to the patients, its cracking me up and the stress of it is making my illness worse