Scored 66 using possible new score system for ESA

The link below

Using pages 10 to 16 these have a good chance of being the revised ESA test IMO

www.dwp.gov.uk/docs/work-capability-asse...-review-addendum.pdf


I just used them I see I score 66 on the test on this site I scored about 20 higher

Hi Dave, I just glanced through, and was immediately struck by the fact that it does seem to allow for people with what I call "exhaustion syndromes", e.g. ME, CFS, FMS... What I want to know is, if they bring this in (let's hope they do) what happens to people with these and related conditions who have already been chucked off of ESA because they were assessed under an earlier WCA? Could I, for example, go back to the DWP and say "You said I didn't qualify before because your assessment didn't suitably recognise my illness, now you've changed your assessment I want another go at the WCA"?

Is this not the test that was approved but didn't get through parliament on time so was not adopted?

Think there was some posts a few months about this?

Annoying cos there were some elements that would have significantly helped my 'points' score as well

jules
Baggs wrote:

Hi Dave, I just glanced through, and was immediately struck by the fact that it does seem to allow for people with what I call "exhaustion syndromes", e.g. ME, CFS, FMS... What I want to know is, if they bring this in (let's hope they do) what happens to people with these and related conditions who have already been chucked off of ESA because they were assessed under an earlier WCA? Could I, for example, go back to the DWP and say "You said I didn't qualify before because your assessment didn't suitably recognise my illness, now you've changed your assessment I want another go at the WCA"?

Thats a good question

choogle wrote:

Is this not the test that was approved but didn't get through parliament on time so was not adopted?

Think there was some posts a few months about this?

Annoying cos there were some elements that would have significantly helped my 'points' score as well

could well be. this or something like it is going to be used

They've effectively legislated away mental illnesses like mine. Whereas in relation to the physical descriptors, there is the issue of being able to do them reliably and repeatedly, in relation to the mental descriptors, there are words like "always" and "on a daily basis".

So to take social contact. If you can do it the majority of the time (51%?) then it's fine if you can't cope the rest of the time. That's going to go down a treat with an employer, isn't it?

They've improved the test for some and worsened it for others. They clearly haven't listened to organisations like Citizens Advice and Mind, and too many mental health organisations haven't seen fit to join in any campaigns on the issue.