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Angel, and anyone else who may be willing and able to help me.

Please would you give me additional advice?

I'm currently receiving £74 odd for ESA per week, paid fortnightly, and I've received this since mid July 2021. I understand that after 13 weeks the DWP decides if they will place you in the support group or keep paying you in the assessment phase. I'm due to give another 3-month sick note to them at the end of this month and wonder if they will then keep me in the assessment mode, or put me in the support group. My medical condition has not changed, and I'm still in the Clinically Vulnerable Group, and I'm still completely self-isolating. Do you think I should get some statement from my GP confirn=ming this, and submit this GP assessment with my next sick note? So far, I've been receiving the Employment-related ESA since July 2021, as I mentioned.

Do I just leave things as they are and see what the DWP do after I submit my 28th Jan 2022 sick not? Also, if they do decide to put me in the support group, would they be likely to pay me the £114 odd per week after that?

Please advise,

LH

Hi Mrs H,
Exactly what Gary said about esa, I would phone them and ask when your review would be? as if you don't get an assesment your esa will stop after a year as gary said.

I will point out to you that people in the clinicaly vulnerable group were told last year to stop sheilding (me being one of them) and unfortunately because you have decided to continue this it is your decision, I totally get why, its very scary to start going out . I currently work in a doctors surgery and do not think you would get a letter from them based on this. as it is not now a government instruction. But anything is worth a try.

I wish you luck in your claim, fingers crossed for you
Let us know how you get on

Hello Gary,

Many thanks for your detailed reply.

In early Dec 2021 of last year, I was informed that my PIP claim has now been allowed (after I asked them to look again at their previous ‘decline’ decision). And as of the 12th of Jan 2021, I have been awarded £60.00 for the Daily Living Component, and £23.70 for Mobility, as of the 12th of April 2021.

How would this assessment and award influence the processing and maintenance of my NS ESA situation? Are the two awards connected in some way? They are both administered by the DWP, and presumably, the DWP knows what a particular claimant has been awarded?

Please advise when you have a spare moment.

Kind regards

LH

Many thanks for your reply and for being there to ask for advice. Don’t know what I’d do without you all. Take care.