ESA Tribunal

Short

You should take all of the papers sent to you by the Tribunal Service, this will include the papers sent to you by the DWP and you should have received a copy of your own papers from the TS.

Your husband will be allowed to speak, but the questioning will be directed at you and he should not answer in your place although if he thinks that a key issue has been missed in your response then he should speak up.

As to preparing, make sure you are familiar with your response and arguments. I would not bother making a "plan" for the hearing, I did this on my first appeal and it fell to pieces within a couple of minutes

I would try and relax the day before and try not to think about the hearing, easier said than done, but you will be better served going in relaxed than tired and anxious.

Good luck for the day.

Gordon

Short

You said in your original post that you had sent a "detailed account of why i disputed the decision", you need to go through this, the DWP bundle and your PIP2 ESA50 to make sure that you have covered any issues that have been raised.

You will win your appeal by showing that you meet the PIP ESA Criteria for an award, so make this your priority, you should not ignore what the DWP have said but try and deal with issues of fact rather than the opinions of the assessor.

Have a look at the following

Disability Rights UK Factsheet - Appeals and reconsiderations

Preparing for a Tribunal

Good practice for those appealing

MOJ Video of ESA Appeals Process and Tribunal

Any submission that you make must be with the TS no later than seven days before your hearing.

Gordon

Short wrote: Hi Gordon

I have had nothing to do with PIP, should i be looking into it?

So if this is the case, what should i be focusing on?

Thanks

Sorry the references should have been to ESA and not PIP.

Gordon