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intrested wrote: Thank you so much for reply , wil my son need to phone for mandatory reconsider ation and will he need to ask for full medical assesment records or anything else needs to ask.my son was on esa support early last year after waiting 6 months for appeal but late last year wanted to try working so went back to work , but his condion worsened so back to square one. Thank you

We recommend making the request in writing, have a look at our ESA Appeal guide for details of the process and template letters that you can use to make the request with.

www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/help-for-claimants/esa1

He should contact the DWP for a copy of the assessment report (ESA85) if you have not already done so, I would phone them but again follow up the request in writing. Once you have the assessment report you will have a better understanding of how the DWP Decision Maker has come to their conclusions and will then be able to argue against them.

His primary task is to show that he meets the criteria, there are many reasons he may have failed, you need to address each of these but he should try not to get bogged down in criticising the assessment report unless he can clearly show that it is incorrect, it is a lot easier to argue the facts of the situation;

"the assessor recorded that I walked 50m, I did but they have failed to document that I had to stop every 10m for a rest due to breathlessness"

than their opinions

"based on my observations of the claimant walking I believe that they can reliably walk more than 200m.

When you have a better idea of the issues with his claim, come back to the forum and we will do our best to help.

Gordon

intrested wrote: Hi
my son received his medical report this morning half of what happened at medical not mentioned my son also suffer s from hypertension his blood pressure whas taken and was 140 over 100 yet report state s it was 140 over 9 ?.how long does he have now to get is mandentry reconsideration reason back to them is it 28 days from decision letter telling him he doe not qualify .hope you can understand what I have written. Thank you

It's one month from the date of the Decision.

Gordon