ESA Assessment - you couldn't make this up!

TheMerlin486 wrote: Lodging an appeal now.... would that simply be as easy as speaking to DWP on the telephone or should I contact the Maximus Claire Bushby (Senior Customer Relations Manager) who drafted the reply?

An appeal is made to the Tribunal Service.

The ESA Appeal guide has links to the SSCS1 form that you will need to complete and the Submissions guide has a complete example that you can use to help you fill it in, you do not need to provide detailed reasons at this stage for your request.

Once your appeal is accepted the DWP will prepare their submission to the hearing and send you a copy, whilst you should wait until you receive this to finish and submit your own, you should start to prepare your own case, an increased award will only be made by your showing that you score the extra points for one, so I would start by going back through your ESA50, the assessment report and the ESA Claim guides to see how you might show this is the case.

Gordon

Merlin

How was the information made available? Was it a Decision Letter or one that might be described as "for your information"?


Id the latter then I would expect a Decision Letter to be sent, this could take another couple of weeks.

In either case, you should receive a "payment" letter outlining any back payment and what your payments will be going forward. As this is ESA, you may receive several of these!

Gordon