ESA award and documents

Hello Everyone,

This last Friday I received a letter regarding an ESA award. They have given me money for "living expenses" and money for "being severely disabled". Phew.

I called the information phone number for ESA to confirm but I did want to know when I might get my original documents back (5 sick notes, 2 payslips and an SSP1 form from my employer).

I was told they would keep all the original documents. As advised by B&W, I had made copies, but I was under the impression that the originals would be returned to me.

Would someone be able to tell me what is correct.

Thank you for your time.

cmarie

Gordon,

Thank you, I will do that today.

One more not so quick question: I have been reading and annotating the last 61 page ESA claims on Physical and Health grounds. I have JUST gotten as far as page 29 and as I wrote, I have been making notes and highlighting as I have gone along.

Should/Could I start with the latest doc. from page 27 say, and annotate it??? The old doc represents hours of work for me. I'm not sure how to proceed.

Kindest regards,
cmarie

many thanks