Epilepsy

Are people with Epilepsy classed as unfit for work?

wendy wrote: Are people with Epilepsy classed as unfit for work?

Hi w,

I see from your other posts that you also suffer from emphysema.

It is not any particular illness or medical conditions that would qualify you for ESA in either The WRAG or the Support Group.(except for a couple of instances such as cancer)

It is the the limitations as a result of these conditions that may qualify you for example, emphysema causes breathlessness on exertion, so depending on how severe your respiratory condition was you would need to show that any of the symptoms would fulfill the qualifying descriptors.

Epilepsy causes blackout and seizures, so again you would need to show how these limitations would qualify you under the descriptors.

Have a look at this topic from today :

www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/forum?view=top...d=10&id=97710#102788

You may find it helpful.

So it is up to you, with the aid of medical evidence or letters of support from a G.P. etc, to show that you suffer the limitations as a result of your medical conditions that would qualify you for ESA under the WRAG and/or SG descriptors.

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