Start the employment and support allowance (ESA) test
Benefits and Work has created an online form which allows you to assess yourself using the ESA work capability assessment just by clicking with your mouse.
Our online test takes you through the work capability assessment, the test used to decide whether you are eligible for employment and support allowance (ESA), and if so, whether you should be in the work-related activity group (WRAG) or the support group.
It covers:
- Points for the work-related activity group
- Descriptors for the support group
- Exemptions
- Exceptional circumstances
But please be aware that a decision maker using a report from a Maximus health professional may not reach the same conclusion that you do about your eligibility for employment and support allowance.
Our online ESA test will tell you whether you assess yourself as being eligible for ESA and if so in which group.
If you assess yourself as being in the ESA support group, it will also tell you the ways in which you qualified for the work-related activity group. Many people may potentially qualify for the work-related activity group in more than one way – for example by scoring two different 15 point descriptors or by being covered by the exceptional circumstances rules, as well as scoring points.
If you know the different ways you may qualify, you can ensure you give evidence about all of them in your questionnaire and at your medical, in case your evidence relating to the support group or one way of qualifying for the WRAG is not accepted.
The ESA test is anonymous, and the results will appear in your browser as soon as you have completed the four pages of multiple choice questions. But, if you wish, you can also have your ESA results emailed to you.
Good luck.
