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ESA Severe Conditions Guidance
What have peoples’ experiences been of the new ESA Severe Conditions Guidance (SCG) which effectively exempts people from further WCAs?
DWP say they have not had any feedback from charities about it.
Have you found the SCG being applied? It’s difficult to know without a phone call to DWP as DWP don’t refer to it in the decision notices and I suspect most people don’t ask.
Has anyone tried challenging when it has not been applied when it should have been? I have tried using the DWP complaints procedure, (as it is not appealable), and DWP have not regarded these as complaints. Judicial Review looks like an option in a suitable case.
CHDA’s reasoning about why the SCG does not apply in the cases is almost perverse, but then what’s new?
I’d be interested in peoples’ experiences.