ESA statistics ( including reviews)

bentan930
bentan930 Online Community Member Posts: 28 Connected
in Employment & Support Allowance (ESA)
I just stumbled upon this and thought it may be of interest. I know it has been said that no support group reviews are happening. This shows they are but in a very small number about 2% of pre covid. Maybe these reviews are some kind of special circumstances I’ve no idea. Basically graph shows pre covid they were doing close to 150k reviews a quarter and last September did 3k. 

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  • bentan930
    bentan930 Online Community Member Posts: 28 Connected
    So obviously backlog must be huge. It shows pre covid they did about 500k reviews a year. And obviously if you then add in new cases it’s hard to see how they catch up. 
  • poppy123456
    poppy123456 Online Community Member Posts: 64,456 Championing
    Those review stats could have been for those that received their forms just as the first lock down started way back in March 2020.
  • bentan930
    bentan930 Online Community Member Posts: 28 Connected
    That would be to far back surely this is September 2022
  • poppy123456
    poppy123456 Online Community Member Posts: 64,456 Championing
    No, not at all. With the backlogs at that time it was definitely possible that some revews hadn't been dealt with. I know i received my last review form just as lock down was announced but thankfully for me i had a paper based assessment, which was done quite quickly.
  • bentan930
    bentan930 Online Community Member Posts: 28 Connected
    Yeah I guess with the obvious backlog it does seem they would have to prioritise new cases. And the graph is still going in a downward direction so yeah maybe it was just clearing forms already sent out. 

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