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DLA due to end - is ESA affected?
- Muffin
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I am currently in ESA support group due to severe mental health difficulties.
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Welcome to Benefits and Work
ESA and DLA/PIP are very different benefits with different qualifying criteria. After all, it is possible to get enhanced rate PIP and yet still work full time!
Your DLA ending would have no effect on your current ESA award. Nor have we seen unfavourable PIP reports used to reduce or remove ESA awards at reassessment.
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Muffin wrote: So if I decide not to apply for PIP because I can't manage the stress right now, will my ESA be left alone and continue as it is? My worry is that if I don't apply for PIP the ESA people might decide to reassess me.
There should be no impact to your ESA.
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Muffin wrote: Disability Action Group told me if I just don't apply for PIP, it could trigger an ESA reassessment. My health is no better, but I just can't cope with the stress of PIP assessment right now after two bereavements.
All I can say is that we have not seen a single member have their ESA reassessed as a direct result of them not making a claim for PIP or failing in their claim for PIP.
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