New Style ESA Telephone appointment

Victoria1 · January 2025

Hi everyone,

I've be claiming ESA( Support Group) for 10 years. Due to the migration into Universal Credit, next week I'm due a New Style ESA telephone appointment. I'm anxious beyond words! During the telephone call, I need to accept my claim commitments, what does this detail ? And what other questions can I expect to be asked?.

I'd really appreciate any help to calm my nerves

poppy123456 · January 2025

It will be a very quick, easy and straight forward phone call. Your commitments will be to agree to report all changes and that's it, nothing else. Once the claim is up and running there will be no issues at all. Your payments will be £276.40/fortnight and the deduction from UC will be £598.86/month. It looks more than what you receive but there's 4.3 weeks in a month, not 4 weeks. UC will then top up your income.

Kimi87 · January 2025

It will be a very brief call, your only commitment will be to report any changes.

Please see this thread where two members reported how easy their call was

https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/127904/question-re-manditory-migration-from-esa-to-uc

Victoria1 · January 2025

Thank you so much, your insightful words have brought me peace of mind.

Jimm_Alumni · January 2025

Welcome to the community @Victoria1 😊 I'm glad the words of our members has brought you peace of mind! If you do have any other questions please do just ask.

Best of luck with the call, and if you wish please do let us know how you get on 🙂

Victoria1 · February 2025

Hi,

My commitments phone call took no more than 5 minutes, if I hadn't of asked two questions it would of been even shorter!. Thankfully, we only spoke of how I need to report any changes in circumstances and that was that, very straight forward. Absolutely nothing to worry about.

Many thanks to poppy123456, Kimmy87 and Jimm_Scope