My wife has high functioning autism, audio processing disorder and other processing difficulties. We heard from a friend that autistic people do not have to attend face to face work capability assessments for ESA. Is this true?
Hi Whistler It is not something that I am aware of, do you have POA? You usually need a Dr's or Psychiatrist letter stating that the person cannot attend an assessment centre and require a home visit. Your post raises a few questions such as, is your wife in receipt of ESA now and has been asked to attend a re-assessment, as you cannot claim IR ESA now, you have to claim 'new style ESA' which is UC based. Does your wife receive PIP/DLA? Check out the National Autistic web site: www.autism.org.uk it has excellant information. I have had a quick check and cannot see anything about not having to undergo a face to face WCA assessment.
Gary
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