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Hunmanby
Hunmanby Online Community Member Posts: 7 Listener
in Employment & Support Allowance (ESA)

spoke to DWP today, three weeks after my assessment. My assessor recomm bds I go into the support group but the decision is still with DWP decision maker…??? Does this sound hopeful!?? Or am I counting my chickens 🙏🤔

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  • IrishManc
    IrishManc Online Community Member Posts: 112 Empowering

    My DWP “assessment” decision letter on UC in Feb 2025 for autism as being declared “fit for work” was given to me via journal message, only after all legal time limits for any appeals or mandatory reconsideration had already elapsed, thereby preventing me from lodging any appeals against their decision, even though it had been made on the basis of incomplete information, because the assessor had declined to accept any supporting documents in any format when offered - I’d had an online later in life diagnosis of autism in 2021 outsourced to a private provider by the NHS and carried out via zoom, but I’d never had a proper post-diagnosis assessment

  • Mary_Scope
    Mary_Scope Posts: 4,383 Scope Online Community Children and Family Specialists

    Hope you're not waiting too much longer for your outcome @Hunmanby!

  • Hunmanby
    Hunmanby Online Community Member Posts: 7 Listener

    aw thank you 🙏 🤞

  • SheffieldMan1976
    SheffieldMan1976 Posts: 1,158 Connected

    Unfortunately, the government wants ALL disabled people of working age to get a job to reduce the MASSIVE benefits Bill, even though in a LOT of cases, it'd be mentally and/or physically impossible for some disabled people to work, but the government are desperate to save money.

    What gets me though, is that they're perfectly willing to chuck endless pots of money at International interests but when it comes to helping our own natives, they don't wanna know.

  • flour
    flour Online Community Member Posts: 126 Empowering
    edited April 3
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1111889#Comment_1111889

    You can lodge an appeal up to 13 months after the date of the decision.

    You can lodge an appeal over 13 months after the date of the decision but you will need specialist advice. It may be possible to argue the appeal should be allowed 'out of time'. It will depend entirely on your circumstances and what the decision letter said.

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