Telephone assessment in the morning

hughie1

My rescheduled reassessment / review is in the morning. 

First, please give me some last minute tips. I don't know what I will do if this goes wrong. Can't cope with that again. Got so much riding on this. It's my first review since 2016/17.

Second, I want to know if you know whether the assessor or the DWP will have contacted my GP for information. Say, about what medication I'm on, for example.

Third, this is a reschedule. And when I was rescheduling the guy told me it would be a new assessor this time. I asked about the questionnaire and extra information I sent. He said they'll probably read it 15m before. 

I sent a lot of papers. How can they read everything so quick? Do these papers not matter? Is everything riding on the interview and subsequent report?

Will the DWP decision maker read all the information I sent? 

Hannah_Alumni

Hello @hughie1

Good luck with your assessment Please keep us updated! 

hughie1

Thank you. 

Had assessment. Lasted about 1 hour. Don't know if that means anything. 

poppy123456

The length of time the assessment took doesn't mean anything at all other than they had no further questions to ask. Once a decision is made you will be sent the decision letter, which can take up to 12 weeks after the report is returned. 

hughie1

Guys I have received the letter. I think it's good news. Can you please confirm. 

https://ibb.co/dccvtkB

Is this it. Positive outcome. Done with? I can relax now? 

poppy123456

Yes, that means you’ve been placed into the Support Group. Now you can relax, great news! 

hughie1

Thank you. Any idea or way of knowing how long until the next assessment? I thought I'd receive a report or something. 

poppy123456

Support Group is an ongoing award until a new decision says otherwise. Decision letters never tell you any timescales. 

They will not automatically send out the report and if you want a copy you need to ring ESA to ask. In the report it will give an award length in either short, medium or long term, it will not tell you any specific timeframes. This is because it's ongoing. 

Best thing to do for now is to forget about it, if possible and move on. At least you can relax for now. 

hughie1

But I don't have to worry about it for at least a year? 

hughie1

What the shortest? 

poppy123456

In normal times you can be reassessed anytime from 3 months. Though at the moment, it's not normal times because those that are in the Support Group haven't yet started their reviews, as far as I'm aware. With the exception of selected few that were reviewed last summer.

hughie1

poppy123456 said:

In normal times you can be reassessed anytime from 3 months. Though at the moment, it's not normal times because those that are in the Support Group haven't yet started their reviews, as far as I'm aware. With the exception of selected few that were reviewed last summer.

I waited 5 or 6 years for this review. You're saying it could be 3 months? 

hughie1

I got this message today. Why if I already got the decision letter? 

verityc

Sounds like it's crossed with the your outcome source you got. I wouldn't take any notice of it. Same sort of thing happened with my pip

poppy123456

hughie1 said:

poppy123456 said:

In normal times you can be reassessed anytime from 3 months. Though at the moment, it's not normal times because those that are in the Support Group haven't yet started their reviews, as far as I'm aware. With the exception of selected few that were reviewed last summer.

I waited 5 or 6 years for this review. You're saying it could be 3 months? 

Yes but as i advised it’s unlikely to happen due to them still not reviewing those that are in the Support group.

hughie1 said:

I got this message today. Why if I already got the decision letter? 

Unless what you received was the annual uprating letter but I looked like a decision letter to me. 

For confirmation you could ring them to ask. 

hughie1

poppy123456 said:

hughie1 said:

poppy123456 said:

In normal times you can be reassessed anytime from 3 months. Though at the moment, it's not normal times because those that are in the Support Group haven't yet started their reviews, as far as I'm aware. With the exception of selected few that were reviewed last summer.

I waited 5 or 6 years for this review. You're saying it could be 3 months? 

Yes but as i advised it’s unlikely to happen due to them still not reviewing those that are in the Support group.

hughie1 said:

I got this message today. Why if I already got the decision letter? 

Unless what you received was the annual uprating letter but I looked like a decision letter to me. 

For confirmation you could ring them to ask. 

1. I was in support group and I got reviewed. 
2. https://ibb.co/jZkpCZ3

poppy123456

Yup. that's what I thought. It looks like a decision letter to me. The text may have been sent in error. You can ring ESA to ask. Those texts for ESA are very new and they've only very recently started sending them. 

hughie1

My first instinct was it was a delayed automated text. 

poppy123456

Yup it could have been that too. I've also seen a lot of error texts being sent from DWP in the last week or so on here. To be honest, I've no idea what is going on.