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Bank statements
Hi the DWP have asked to see mine and my husbands bank statements as he took out some money from his pension to pay off a loan. Thy said that they’re interested in times that cost over £500 and that we have to explain what that was for and send them any receipts if we have them. What I’m worried about is them looking at…
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Can I request my esa early if in financial hardship
hi all Would anyone be able to advise me if Can I request my esa early if in financial hardship, I can’t have a budgeting advance from uC as I am still paying one off. My esa isn’t due until next weds but have literally nothing at all
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Advice about Employment Support Allowance
Hi everyone I am new to the community. I am currently on ESA long term and in the support group as I am mentally ill. I was wondering if i could ask advice about inheritance and what if anything i can do. The reason i am asking is my mother has gone into palliative care and i have started thinking about what will happen…
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Hi, my name is 852! ESA questions.
Good afternoon Sir or MadamI would like you to help me with these 2 questions.I receive ESA benefit related to contribution.My partner's Jobseek's Allowance has ended.My partner worked for 13 years.My partner is 64 years old, in March she will be 65. 1- My partner worked and contributed, can she also claim ESA benefit.???…
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Information
hi iam currently on esa support group and not getting any other benefits my esa is not income related as I understand it I will be staying on esa not going to uc am I right?and if so is it eventually the plan that even this group has to move over any information is welcome thanks
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ESA to UC migration to end in 2026
hi all, I read somewhere that the migration from ESA to UC will now end at the end of 2026 and not as we thought 2025. Can someone confirm this?
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Curious to know.
If you are on iresa and in support group with numerous health conditions for many years , then a condition gets much worse or you get a new health condition, (Bear with me on this 😊) or a long standing condition developed into something else ,Do you need to inform esa and would you need to send in fit notes for said new…
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ESA haven't called
Hi, I submitted a new style ESA as I was medically dismissed from my job due to my fibromyalgia and work not being able to make adjustments (apparently!) I had my assessment appointment today over the phone (6/11/24) at 1pm. It's now 2:30pm and nobody has called me. I am extremely worried because I don't know what is going…
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ESA Support Group - will Permitted Work (self employed) cause future problems?
Hi all, last year I was placed in the ESA support group (first time, so I’m new to all this). I’ve now got the opportunity to do some self-employed work (low-key, from home, flexible) for a day a week, for a small local company. I’ve read the official ‘permitted working / less than 16 hours / less than £152 a week’…
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Hi, my name is tinkerbell75! Does backdated ESA count as savings?
no idea where to start but here goes: awarded backdated esa underpayment award it’s over £5,000 due to official error so will take me over savings allowed what happens to esa and move to UC and also worried now about housing benefit as this is income should of received and not psid till now will all this be affected? kind…
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Esa migration confusion
I'm am so sorry if this has been asked already but I've been searching and can't find a definitive answer. I am on contribution based esa support group, with income related top up ? Will I be migrated to universal credit ? Will i be worse off on universal credit ? I understand that migrations will be completed by January…
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Is this ESA letter right?
Hi guys. I have a maybe strange situation. I have been in the ESA Suupport Group since 2017 (originally a tribunal decision). Just in the last 2 weeks I changed to UC and have been placed in the LCWRA group, from the ESA Support Group, and that change happened just 2 days ago. Anyway I have now been given a work focused…
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Worried about losing ESA
I Have severe social anxiety and depression recently filled in form about esa worried about losing it
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ESA SUPPORT GROUP
hello everyone, I am currently undergoing a review I requested for my employment and support allowance because I am in the Work group but I think I should be in the support group. If you can help me with the following questions I would be very very grateful. If I get my migration letter to move to UC while I’m in the Work…
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Repeated losing of evidence
Three times this year I have tried to send evidence to the DWP. First time first class post. Second time in there freepost envelope. Third time guaranteed signed for next day delivery. Each time they have said it has not been received. I have sent each lot to the address given in the letter. How do others actually get…
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Is this ESA letter right?
Hello again guys. I am so confused…. I started a managed migration on 16th October to go from ESA Support Group over to UC and to then go onto the LCWRA group. I have just 2 days ago, on 31st October, been informed that I am now in the LCWRA group, as I was previously like i said, been in the ESA Support Group. I have been…
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New style Esa and U.c commitments
I have been on both now since the middle of October.I agreed to the u.c commitments but I've never really had any correspondence from new style esa.only a generic letter sent out initially telling me I was going on it.Nothing to tell me what amount I was going onto.I only found out by numerous calls to different…
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Uc managed migration missing SDP esa
Currently going though managed migration to. Uc, I should get the first payment next week but don't know how much, I am on esa support group with SDP, I got a esa payment yesterday but no SDP Is the SDP paid with uc? Or should it have been paid with the esa yesterday? Should i do anything or is it normal? Thanks
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Esa
quick question, I send of my ESA 50 reassessment form recently, and know there is a backlog ? I just worried that these new measures, with be brought in before I am assessed, as the parts they are take out, are my main point scorers, or will they say with the form I filled in ?
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Lwcra
hello I’ve been awarded LCWRA it says from 3 months when I put in the fit note which was the 1st of august i also receive carers allowance so will I be entitled to extra money