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can somone shed some light on COVID vunerable letter

Hi, my wife has been off work since last march. She works at a supermarket and was put on furlough. When it was time to return back to work her doctor said she was not allowed due to her health condition. So she stayed off work and received company sick pay until it finished in October. Now, she is receiving £95 per week. She has got the letter from the government to shield and it mentions she maybe entitled to ESA. She does not understand that. Also, received information that even though she is on SSP because the government have asked her to shield she can now ask her employer which is Tesco to put her back on furlough, but she does not know if that is correct or not.
We are just trying to find out what the right thing to do
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Also 4 months supply of free vitamin D...lol
When she didnt go back after shielding ended it was her gp who prevented this hence her being off sick
As for esa I'm sure one of our benefits experts will answer that one
As for the govt. making a mess of covid financially, I beg to differ, they have provided around a quarter of a trillion £'s so far to protect jobs and businesses, I fail to see how that can be regarded as a "complete mess". Our kids and grandkids are going to be repaying this debt for the rest of their lives.
I'm afraid its almost impossible to discuss Covid and not bring politics into the conversation.\
ETA Just had a look at some figures which go upto mid Dec UK debt is now £2.1 trillion or 99.5% of GDP almost as bad a during WW2 in % terms, and we finished paying the WW2 debt off in 1999.
The worry is now that lockdown3 will add to this mountain of debt, god help our grandchildren is all I can say.
We sorely miss the family dropping in although they get us anything we need and drop it at the door . We cannot thank them enough for all they have done .
I would not say we took our family for granted as they dropped in to see us regularly and we had a meal together pretty regularly ..but... we took life for granted in general I would say. If God spares us from the ravages of this pandemic then I will never again take life for granted . We do not know what's around the corner and we must live life to the fullest .
The sooner the vaccine I'd distributed amongst everyone , the better things will get ....hopefully .
Please take care and May your God be with you . 🙏