Joint claim ESA to UC migration now asking for fit note & face to face review

Hi David,

I'm so sorry for this I've been a mess. I found my last esa form copy and it was 10/12/18 when it was submitted with added GP letters etc but now I don't know if I did have a WCA. I lost all my backup data on my phone and don't know if I had one. I found a job centre letter from April of 2019 saying we have looked at your claim again following a recent change from 27 February 2019 you will receive £127.15 because a decision on your capability for work you have been placed in the support group and from 10.aprilnyour money will be £128.45 because of a change in money coming in you meet the eligibility criteria for the support group. I know that we started getting help to put in a couples claim around the end of March/beginning of April 2019 and I don't know if while it was happening our payments were stopped

I don't know if this was after we first started trying to join our claim
When we first tried they denied us a couples claim and said my partner was on contributions based when he wasn't and then said we needed to go on UC because I was moving from a different area but I wasn't becoming a tennant or claiming HB or CT and thanks to advice from here we eventually stayed on esa. Does this mean the messages in my journal are correct and I will have to provide fit notes?

Someone also said I should quote regulation 19 of the transitional regulations about the fit notes. Is that something that relates to me.

Hi David, does it matter that I don't know if I had a work capability assessment? I don't recall having to do one face to face. It might have been a decision made on evidence I provided. I think my last face to face WCA might have been Dec 2016 or Jan 2017 and then I didn't get another ESA form in until end of 2018.

I'm just realising as well, and I apologise because I have bad brain fog. I have been diagnosed with new things since our claims were joined and I wasn't getting assessed and so I didn't inform the DWP because I didn't know/realise if I had to and with the UC migration Input the new conditions down. Could it be related to this? And will I then need a WCA? I am so sorry. I just realised I'd forgotten to update them. I thought because my partner was the lead claimant it was more about his conditions which I know sounds stupid. I started getting new diagnosis around 2023.