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Received" need to asses you for ESA" -help please!
11 years 1 month ago - 11 years 1 month ago #103984 by kotenok
Replied by kotenok on topic Received" need to asses you for ESA" -help please!
Thank you Bro,- better late than never 
In Guides - both mental and physical we have an exemptions:
" If you think that any of these exemptions may apply to you, inform the DWP office dealing
with your claim and give them details of your GP or other health professional ...
If this is the case then you will need to try to get medical evidence to support your exemption and send this to the DWP as soon as you can.
If you can’t obtain medical evidence explain the
situation to the DWP and tell them who best to contact to get the necessary evidence.
If you believe that this exceptional circumstance applies to you, include information with your
questionnaire and try to obtain supporting medical evidence.
Substantial risk
The second regulation says that you will be found to have limited capability for work if:
(b) you suffer from some specific disease or bodily or mental disablement and, by reasons of
such disease or disablement, there would be a substantial risk to the mental or physical
health of any person if you were found not to have limited capability for work.
For this exceptional circumstance regulation to apply you need to show firstly that you have a
specific ‘disease or disablement’.
This could be anything at all, for example: anxiety,
depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia.
Then you need to show that there would be a ‘substantial risk’ either to you or to someone
else if you were found not to have limited capability for work.
How might this pose a ‘substantial risk’?
For example, might your condition deteriorate seriously?
Might you attempt to harm yourself?
Would you be unable to leave your home to sign on and attend interviews. In this case
would you be left without any money to buy food and pay for heating and lighting with the
result that you would become ill?
Would you find attending job interviews or work very distressing and might you be liable to
lash out in fear and possibly physically injure someone else?
The risk may arise because of a mental health condition – for example because you may
become extremely anxious, depressed or distressed if you are found not to have limited
capability for work and this could cause danger to you."..
My question is - if one can’t obtain medical evidence, would be letter from carers be enough- like it says below?
Can someone explain how this works and what do people have to do, to prove that these exemptions /exceptional circumstance applies to them, please? I think that this could apply to my mother.
"If you can’t obtain medical evidence explain the
situation to the DWP and tell them who best to contact to get the necessary evidence.
If you believe that this exceptional circumstance applies to you, include information with your
questionnaire and try to obtain supporting medical evidence."
And again- thanks a million!
In Guides - both mental and physical we have an exemptions:
" If you think that any of these exemptions may apply to you, inform the DWP office dealing
with your claim and give them details of your GP or other health professional ...
If this is the case then you will need to try to get medical evidence to support your exemption and send this to the DWP as soon as you can.
If you can’t obtain medical evidence explain the
situation to the DWP and tell them who best to contact to get the necessary evidence.
If you believe that this exceptional circumstance applies to you, include information with your
questionnaire and try to obtain supporting medical evidence.
Substantial risk
The second regulation says that you will be found to have limited capability for work if:
(b) you suffer from some specific disease or bodily or mental disablement and, by reasons of
such disease or disablement, there would be a substantial risk to the mental or physical
health of any person if you were found not to have limited capability for work.
For this exceptional circumstance regulation to apply you need to show firstly that you have a
specific ‘disease or disablement’.
This could be anything at all, for example: anxiety,
depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia.
Then you need to show that there would be a ‘substantial risk’ either to you or to someone
else if you were found not to have limited capability for work.
How might this pose a ‘substantial risk’?
For example, might your condition deteriorate seriously?
Might you attempt to harm yourself?
Would you be unable to leave your home to sign on and attend interviews. In this case
would you be left without any money to buy food and pay for heating and lighting with the
result that you would become ill?
Would you find attending job interviews or work very distressing and might you be liable to
lash out in fear and possibly physically injure someone else?
The risk may arise because of a mental health condition – for example because you may
become extremely anxious, depressed or distressed if you are found not to have limited
capability for work and this could cause danger to you."..
My question is - if one can’t obtain medical evidence, would be letter from carers be enough- like it says below?
Can someone explain how this works and what do people have to do, to prove that these exemptions /exceptional circumstance applies to them, please? I think that this could apply to my mother.
"If you can’t obtain medical evidence explain the
situation to the DWP and tell them who best to contact to get the necessary evidence.
If you believe that this exceptional circumstance applies to you, include information with your
questionnaire and try to obtain supporting medical evidence."
And again- thanks a million!
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