Won at Appeal!

I just want to thank all of you at Benefits and Work for the support I've had from your website. At the appeal yesterday I was put back into the ESA support group, with a recommendation that I shouldn't be reassessed! I wouldn't have got that without you - your advice and guides have been as good as having my own solicitor! I was terrified at appearing before the Tribunal but they were very pleasant and I understand now why it's so important to appeal if assessment lets you down. I don't think I'm quite out of the woods yet - the letter said that if the DWP wished to appeal the Tribunals decision they could, and the Tribunal couldn't make the DWP pay!

On another topic, I've received a form ESA3(IBR)06/18 and a letter telling me I might be eligible for Income-based ESA. Since I began receiving ESA I've always been told I had too much income to be eligible, so does anyone know what this is about?

I just read of your success and wanted to know if when you were assessed and taken off ESA did they tell you to claim UC . Am asking because this happened to my sister they stopped her ESA benefit and told her to claim UC while she appealed her decision . With a lot of help from me we got enough evidence for her to win her appeal but they have told her she cNt go back onto ESA as we are in an area where UC has been rolled out but her benefit is over 100 pounds a month less because although she won her appeal they said hers was a new claim on UC so the cut off date for the enhanced payment doesn’t apply . So basically she has won her appeal but it’s done her no good as she can’t go back onto esa. Any advice please?