I called ESA yesterday as I had a letter to say my claim was closed as I had claimed UC - managed migration and the date ESA Claim closed is the date I did the switch to UC.
I was calling to see when my final payment of ESA would be, to see whether I needed to apply for an advance payment of UC.
The ESA employee told me that my CB ESA would still continue to be paid at £145 per week every two weeks.
I was not aware I was on CB ESA, and thought this had expired a long time ago.
I was originally on Incapacity Benefit having finished work at 30 due to ill health, I switched to ESA in 2013, why am I still getting CB ESA, and why are ESA Uprating Letters failing to breakdown what my ESA is made up of?
Your experience is familiar to a great number of our Forum members. There are some of them who have never worked but are still getting Contributions Based ESA because of the Incapacity Benefit rules going back 20 years. The computer generated letters issued by the ESA section are notorious for being meaningless or inaccurate.
David
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