ESA - the Interview

Hello

At the moment, I am concentrating a lot on ESA, as a lot of folks are going through it, I hope the information, I put here helps.

At some stage, you will be sent a letter, asking you to attend an interview at your local Job Centre, now you may have been told, that if you refuse to go to this interview you will loose your benefit, this is not the case.

If you have stated on the form, that you are housebound with ME, and have a backing letter from your doc, simply ring them up, and tell them, sometimes they don't read the forms properly and so don't enter the data properly, stick by your guns.

Ask for the interview to be done over the telephone, and generally that is OK, you can also ask for it to be done over a period of time, in small bits, as well.

The system is generic, one size fits all, and as you know, it doesn't work like that, have them work round you.

If you come up as being able to work when you clearly can't don't be afraid to appeal, people are appealing several times, in fact the system, in on the verge of collapse, because of the number of appeals.

If you don't like the system, feel free to get onto your MP, you voted for them, so use them, for your benefit.

That's it for now.

Miriam