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Exemption from Work Focused Interviews
Hello & Happy New Year to everyone.
Please excuse me if I am having a foolish moment but can someone please confirm the circumstances whereby someo | murphs | 05-Jan-10 01:20 PM
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ESA during appeal - med cert demanded
Hi
My client has been told she can only have "appeal ESA" when she has provided a med cert covering the relevent period.
This can't be legit can | dannorris | 31-Dec-09 09:00 AM
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Length of time for WCA
According to Bonner Hooker White, vol 1 page 1138, the Work Capability Assessment is a face to face meeting lasting between 75 and 90 minutes. | Mr Celine | 30-Dec-09 09:59 AM
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IB & SDA uprating
Hi all
just ploughing through uprating statement - http://www.dwp.gov.u k/docs/benefitrates2 010.pdf
anyone got any explanation for the oddity of | RNIB Alban | 22-Dec-09 11:20 AM | 0 | 367 |
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ESA appeal Request for Postponement
Is there a limit on the number of postponemet request without agrivating the Tribunal ?
I took instructions from a client on the 8th she is a singl | darlocab | 22-Dec-09 09:29 AM
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Can forgetting to attend appointments lead to any points in coping with change desciptor for ESA?
Hi
I have a client who I am helping with a ESA appeal. She is able to cope with change as long as somebody reminds her to go to an appointment (sh | iut044 | 21-Dec-09 05:07 PM
by ariadne2 | 1 | 352 |
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ESA Descriptor 3 (Bending and Kneeling)
I have two clients who have been given no points for any of the bending and kneeling descriptors following a WCA medical. Both clients reported that | pete c | 19-Dec-09 10:26 AM
by Steve Johnson | 2 | 698 |
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ESA - Hackney BPC is diabolical
Hi Users
To cut a very long story short, I helped my client claim ESA almost a year ago. Hackney STILL haven't processed his mortgage costs and hi | jom | 18-Dec-09 03:31 PM
by joannah | 3 | 591 |
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experiences of limited capability for work group
I am wondering if anyone has heard of their experiences when they are found unfit for work but have failed to meet the criteria for the support group. | stevenm030 | 11-Dec-09 10:36 AM | 0 | 344 |
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Medical certificates and alternatives
The evidence of incapacity for work - normally medical certificates- arises from the Social Security (Medical Evidence) Regs 1976. I am trying to loca | joe collins | 09-Dec-09 01:11 PM
by joe collins | 2 | 370 |
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The end of the ESA / IS loophole
(Edited to fix link)
This was sad news!
[a href="http://www.rig htsnet.org.uk/cgi-bi n/sub_client/search. cgi?template2=news/u ser_details2.html&ou t | Jane80 | 09-Dec-09 08:27 AM
by darlocab | 4 | 781 |
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'Cruel' ESA tests for terminally ill cancer patients
Referring to todays news item, I agree entirely with what has been reported.
We deal with people with severe mental illness who are regularly sent | steve_h | 08-Dec-09 04:50 PM
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Right to Reside questions - request for case law
Our client is a Union Citizen who has been continuously in the UK since April 2006.
S had lived in the Netherlands for about 22 years prior to com | KJK | 07-Dec-09 04:01 PM
by ros.white | 2 | 372 |
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Reclaiming ESA after ESA appeal disallowed
Can any ESA expert help me on this.
I am assuming someone who has lost an ESA appeal, can reclaim on a new claim using the same medical condition | johnwilson | 04-Dec-09 08:07 AM
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ESA regulation 25
Regulation 25 states-
Hospital in-patients
25.—(1) A claimant is to be treated as having limited capability for work on any day on which that clai | Victor Ridding | 03-Dec-09 02:45 PM
by Victor Ridding | 3 | 510 |
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ESA and War Pension
Hello
Can ESA be paid as war pension, in the same way that incapacity benefit can.
Many thanks | mpmap | 02-Dec-09 03:39 PM | 0 | 237 |
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Missed medical - ESA stopped
Claimant missed an ESA medical and did not complete the form asking for good cause. Consequently ESA has been stopped. She has asked for a review but | Liz_Wilson | 02-Dec-09 03:34 PM
by Liz_Wilson | 1 | 368 |
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Atos Health Care Evidence Based Protocols
The ESA Handbook refers the disability analyst to these protocols. Apparently they contain key points to assist them with aetioly, diagnosis, prognosi | Quinn | 02-Dec-09 09:02 AM
by Quinn | 4 | 1035 |
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1st esa judgment ??
here we go ..... http://www.osscsc.go v.uk/Aspx/view.aspx? id=2783 | shawn | 01-Dec-09 01:56 PM
by Casework team | 3 | 944 |
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independent review of the work capability assessment
whilst the promised independent review of the work capability assessment will begin in the new year, the government said yesterday that 'it is not yet | shawn | 01-Dec-09 10:45 AM | 0 | 359 |
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Contribution based ESA 2nd contributions test
Grrrrrrrrrrr as per usual would really appreciate some of the usual learned suspects advice on this one, because the DM doesn't understand me......... | andyp4 | 01-Dec-09 09:57 AM | 0 | 304 |
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ESA and interviews with A4E while appeal is pending
I don't know if anyone else has run into this one.....
What appears to have happened is that my client has failed the WCA and appealed against the | pete c | 30-Nov-09 02:21 PM
by Casework team | 8 | 1164 |
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ESA and ICB
I have two appeals for the same person on the same day back to back. First Appeal is against ICB, second is ESA appeal as he claimed ESA awaiting out | higginsa | 27-Nov-09 10:25 AM
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ESA/IB linking
I'm having a row with our local JC+ BDC and just wanted confirmation that I'm in the right before I get even hotter under the collar! Plus I have seve | suewelsh | 26-Nov-09 05:06 PM | 0 | 363 |
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esa submission. date to request benefit from
we have had an appeal in dundee where the chair has told our rep that the date in the submission was incorrect.
for esa we have been following a si | stevenm030 | 26-Nov-09 04:54 PM
by suewelsh | 3 | 568 |
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UK citizen married to A8 national
I'm getting really confused and wonder if anyone knows....my client is a UK citizen, her husband is an A8 national. He is unable to work due to deafn | judithd | 26-Nov-09 12:47 PM
by judithd | 7 | 581 |
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Esa appeal and DWP requesting statement of reasons...
Hello All,
Ooh, I am hopping mad!! Went to tribunal with a client last month - ESA - and client won appeal and was placed in the WRA group. Client | frodo | 26-Nov-09 10:17 AM
by frodo | 12 | 1613 |
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ESA Descriptor 3C - Bending Kneeling; Advice please
FTT states in the Statement of Reasons for the decision..."As regards bending and kneeling the Appellant told us that he avoids this activity. If howe | johnwilson | 25-Nov-09 12:32 PM
by johnwilson | 2 | 424 |
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ESA Appeal
Hey
When an ESA appeal is allowed by the tribunal do they also make at the same time a decision as to what component the claimant should go into i. | roecab3 | 20-Nov-09 02:19 PM
by phiso60 | 1 | 366 |
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ESA and permitted work during the assessment phase
I was looking up the rules in relation to ESA claimants and Permitted Work in the Disability Rights Handbook. The handbooks covers the higher work hi | Sam Warburton | 19-Nov-09 04:51 PM
by dab | 2 | 584 |
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