appealing WRAG- support group criteria?

pip wrote: i'm considering a reconsideration or appeal after being placed in WRAG last week from IB/ ESA transfer. can you tell me what the criteria for the support group are beyond those for the WRAG?
thankyou.

Please have a look at the following FAQ

Qualifying for the Support Group

Gordon

pip wrote: thankyou. just read understanding ESA (jan 2013), and you need to have one of the descriptors on the list apply for most of the time. now, i have a fluctuating mental illness condition. am i to ask for reconsideration or appeal based on how i was when i sent in the ESA50 and had the home visit medical (nov 2012), or how i am now, mar 2013? thank you

Any Appeal or Reconsideration can only consider your condition as it was at the time of the assessment (e.g. 11/12).

Please make sure that you are referring to the correct guides in the Members Only area, as the 2013 guides only apply to Decisions made after 28/01/13.

Gordon

pip wrote: thankyou. just checked the earlier ESA guide. whilst any reconsideration/ appeal would refer to how i was at the assessment in nov 2012, i am obliged to tell the DWP if my condition changes. with my mental illness condition, getting better and getting worse is part of its cyclical nature and despite the treatment i get. also how can DWP medics make a realistic prognosis with a cyclical and long term condition? thank you.

You do not need to tell the DWP about an improvment or deterioration in your condition unless there is an expection of the change lasting for a reasonable time, so if your condition fluctuates over a period of weeks or a couple of months, there should be no need to contact them, however, and this is just an illustration, if the variation was over years, then you should contact the DWP.

The way to deal with fluctuating conditions is to consider how you are for the majority of the time and how you are when you are at your worst, and to provide them with details, so you might say;

for the majority of the time, 5 days out of 7 I am... 1 day a week my condition is worse and I can only do...

I hope this helps

Gordon