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6 years 11 months ago #187993 by Orangeblossom
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I have the last report here and it lists a lot of evidence used, past reports as well. I wonder if it is necessary to copy all this stuff again and send it all or just the report will do as it refers to it. It is a lot of stuff to send again.

For example this is the kind of thing it says.

In risk category (the paragraph about being in it)

Justification of advice-

Evidence considered- the Med 3, consultant letter, specialist letter, copy of prescription, care plan and hospital correspondence, and reports from 2008, 2010 and 2014.

The Med 3, ESA50 and medical evidence indicates there would be substantial risk... because of ...(states MH condition)


So,what do you think, would this being listed be enough or have to send it all again. Or just anything more recent which they haven;t seen already. Thanks.

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6 years 11 months ago #187994 by Orangeblossom
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I just noticed it says with PIP to include other benefit letters as it may help them, whereas with ESA it tells you not to! Very intriguing (and inconsistent).

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6 years 11 months ago #188007 by Gordon
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OB

You have picked a bad example to ask about, there is no on-going presumption of risk even if the claimants conditions are permanent, claimants must re-establish this with new evidence every time they are reassessed.

I think the difficulty with trying to use a previous report in the way that you are suggesting is that it lacks context, using the example you include in your post, there is no explanation of how the previous assessor came to their conclusion, you are in effect asking the new assessor to base there own opinions on someone else's.

Only you have sight of the information available, so you will have to use your judgement to decide what source of information to include, just try and think how an assessor will look at it.

Gordon

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6 years 11 months ago #188022 by Orangeblossom
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Ok. It seems they have done the same in the past as the previous ESA Report was similar, just the older ones add more stuff on there each time.

I think I will enclose the most recent report, refer to the stuff on there, add in new stuff I have and outline how I still meet the risk category on the form.

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6 years 11 months ago #188027 by Orangeblossom
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I'm sorry of it is a bad example, but it is simply the medical report they did about me, the previous ones have been just the same kind of thing with a few words different or different examples of evidence, so not much i can really do about that.

It might be because they always seem to do paper assessments. Not sure. I read, there is a pre-board check with people in the SG, where they look and see if the criteria still apply, so the info I am giving may help with this, at this stage, you see. as it has in the past.

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6 years 11 months ago #188034 by Gordon
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OB

All ESA50s go through a pre-board check to see whether a F2F is required, they may check at this stage with you medical contacts to see if you are still at risk, but I stand by my statement that there will be no presumption of risk from your previous assessment so you need to consider how you might show that this is still the case.

Gordon

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