New Style ESA

Hi there.. many thanks for your help so far.

Regarding the completion and submission of the ESA50 form.

My husband is planning to complete page 23 and then to say that he filled the form in on my behalf, but the answers he supplied were my thoughts and my conclusions regarding each question.

He helped me put the answers in good English, plus he typed out each answer and pasted it into each answer box on the form so that the answers are clear and concise. If any answers could not easily fit into any particular box he typed the required details onto separate sheets which were then attached to the end of the form.

The reasons he assisted me are as follows:

0/ My hands tend to have pains in them and after a fairly short time when writing, I have to break off. It is much easier for me if someone else fills the form in on my behalf.

1/ My concentration and consistency of approach are not good, neither is my application when filling out long complicated official forms. If he had not helped me fill the form, then I would not have filled it in at all.
2/ My handwriting is naturally quite poor and quite often it can’t easily be read. I appreciate that the form asks for capital letters to be used.

3/ Some of the wording used on the form is not fully understood by me and my husband explained what the wording was actually asking me to consider.

4/ My combination of illnesses makes for reduced concentration and also makes expressing my ideas more difficult.

5/ I am not from the UK originally, and hence I tend to still think and write in Russian, even though I have been in the UK for 17 years now. I still find that I have to think of what is being said or read in English, and then translate it into it’s Russian equivalent.

Please give me your conclusions and advice.

Thanks.

RH

I decided to send this form Health Questionnaire Form in without the direct assistance of my husband.. You have to always try to do what you can yourself, and not be too dependant on other people. Kind regards, Luda

Hi Folks,

Just sent in my New Style ESA Health Questionnaire and I've got my fingers crossed.

Regarding my PIP claim, submitted on 12th Jan 2021, and only just finally assessed: the DWP have kicked back my application and only given me 6 for Daily Living and 4 for Mobility. I don't quite know which world that these assessors are living, but I get the impression that one side of the DWP has helpful staff working for them, and the other side (the Private assessors) has a different set of people working for them. Maybe the Private Assessors get a bonus for every applicant that they deny a benefit to?

Anyhow, I'm not sure what to do now. My husband rang up the 088 121 4433 number and after 55 mins managed to speak to a nice young chappy called Chris. Chris advised that I send in my response to the failed decision before the cut-off date and that I use bullet points to indicate where the assessor may have missed some important points about my health situation.

Any advice that may be available would be much appreciated. Thanks.