Forum Home → Discussion → Work capability issues and ESA → Thread
ESA benefit breakdown letters
This is an odd query which applies to income-related breakdown letters, such as ESA(IR) - the sort you get for annual uprating or after a new decision. Does anyone know the relationship between what is printed on the letter and what goes into the bank?
Have been told by DWP that clt has received a premium for at least a year, but his breakdown shows otherwise.
Those notices are so unreliable I’d check a bank statement to see how much has been paid.
Had come to that conclusion too….!
Only today I was talking to a man who showed me that his claim for Income-Related ESA for him and his wife had been processed from January this year. The front of the letter sort of made this clear, but unfortunately the only calculation provided was the breakdown at the back for his single contribution-based claim from July to November 2012. Still, it’s the thought that counts.
That’ll be the winner in the UC poll then - 2025. Someone has a plan…..possibly….if the wind is right…...
I think the plan might be lost somewhere in Wolverhampton.
Yesterday I saw what appeared to be a proof of benefit letter dated 2014 but going back to 2012, with rates the claimant was in WRAG and latterly in SG, but the attached breakdown related to the WRAG award using old rates. Fairly confusing for me and the claimant.
i checked 4 claims recently where claimants had been migrated from income support to esa. all had sda before migration but no conts based benefit was showing on their award letters (all in the support group).
when I called to query this I was being told that as the income related esa amount was higher they just pay it all income related.
that’s a new one on me. it was nice of the DWP to explain to me how an applicable amount works though.
OK, so let’s get this right: the letters that explain what a claimant gets are as unreliable as Jeremy Paxman’s M&S underpants, the Public Accounts Committee is about to say that all the DWP’s programmes are on the ‘verge of meltdown’ (PIP, UC, etc.), the entire ESA system is a convoluted joke and the Work Programme doesn’t work.
And nobody gets fired?
OK, so let’s get this right: the letters that explain what a claimant gets are as unreliable as Jeremy Paxman’s M&S underpants, the Public Accounts Committee is about to say that all the DWP’s programmes are on the ‘verge of meltdown’ (PIP, UC, etc.), the entire ESA system is a convoluted joke and the Work Programme doesn’t work.
And nobody gets fired?
Don’t forget Universal Jobmatch is in the bin now too.
How are they going to keep all those new claimants on the CC busy 35 hours a week I wonder. I can see Angry Birds becoming a Jobseekers Direction.