Extention to fill in esa 50 questioner

abc

1. I'm afraid there is no extension available for completing the ESA50, it must be returned to the DWP by the required date or it will be considered as late.

2. The two are not linked, ESA reassessment dates are set by the previous ESA assessment.

3. You can but you need to explain why it is relevant to your ESA claim, although there are areas of overlap, even where there are the actual criteria can be quite different.

Gordon

abc

Both PIP and ESA have very specific criteria but that criteria is different from one to the other, as an obvious example; PIP is a walking test and ESA is a mobilising one, so your PIP report will only cover part of the ESA requirement, a slightly less obvious link would be problems holding a knife in the PIP Preparing Food activity may be relevant to the ESA Dexterity activity.

However, those assessing you are not going to make these connections on their own, so that is why I say that you need to explain the relevance of the PIP report.

Gordon

abc

It's your claim, all I can do is make you aware of the issues that we have seen on the forum.

It is perfectly OK for you to type your answers and attach them as extra pages to the PIP2, just make sure that each page has your full name and NIN at the top and that they are numbered, we recommend "page X of Y" so that it is easy to see if pages are missing. Make sure you clearly mark on the form where your answers are and on the relevant page that you are answering question X.

Attach the pages to the back of the form using a staple or make a hole in the top left corner and use a treasury tag, string or ribbon to the form. The pages need to be easily detached so that they can be scanned by the DWP.

Gordon