xBettyBoopx
11-08-12, 22:52
I wonder if anyone has the same problem.......about 3 months ago I filled in a form for ESA (have been on incap benefit for a few years). I heard nothing for a couple of months until jobcentre+ phoned and subsequent letter which states that my benefit is changing to ESA, then says I have been placed in the work-related activity group!!
I mean seriously.......on the form I stated that I could not go more than a couple of hundred yards and I wasn't called in to be seen by anyone, so what makes them think that I can go for work related interviews?! I have got physical illnesses as well as agoraphobia and would love nothing better than to be able to go back to full time work and get myself some money that I have been going without since 2006! I can appeal this decision and telephoned for the leaflet, which I now have in my hot little hands! What I can't make out is how different can I put that I cannot go further than a few hundred yards?! Do I really have to repeat myself?! If they didn't call me in for an assesment, then they obviously know that I can't go far!
"Must take part in work-focused interviews with a personal adviser to continue to receive ESA in full...."!!! Live on my own and am so worried about this + the financial factor!!
Anyone had this experience?
Forgot to say than they have now changed the benefit to two part (financial), saying that "You must attend or your payments of ESA may be affected" and that my living expenses are "£xx and that £xx is extra money because you are in the work related acitivy group". So if I ask to come out of it (which I am asking) becoz I can't do it or even get there, they are going to take nearly 30 quid from me a week!! I just can't deal with this anymore, things are hopeless enough!
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I mean seriously.......on the form I stated that I could not go more than a couple of hundred yards and I wasn't called in to be seen by anyone, so what makes them think that I can go for work related interviews?! I have got physical illnesses as well as agoraphobia and would love nothing better than to be able to go back to full time work and get myself some money that I have been going without since 2006! I can appeal this decision and telephoned for the leaflet, which I now have in my hot little hands! What I can't make out is how different can I put that I cannot go further than a few hundred yards?! Do I really have to repeat myself?! If they didn't call me in for an assesment, then they obviously know that I can't go far!
"Must take part in work-focused interviews with a personal adviser to continue to receive ESA in full...."!!! Live on my own and am so worried about this + the financial factor!!
Anyone had this experience?
Forgot to say than they have now changed the benefit to two part (financial), saying that "You must attend or your payments of ESA may be affected" and that my living expenses are "£xx and that £xx is extra money because you are in the work related acitivy group". So if I ask to come out of it (which I am asking) becoz I can't do it or even get there, they are going to take nearly 30 quid from me a week!! I just can't deal with this anymore, things are hopeless enough!
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