ESA re Assessment

Bamboozal

Let's deal with the assessment first.

If one has been booked then your friend has realistically gone past the point where an supporting medical professionals will be contacted by Maximus, so his CPN and/or his GP have got to write a letter asking for at the least a home assessment, they need to explain in detail why he cannot attend at their offices.

If any face to face assessment is going to cause unreasonable mental distress then I would involve his MP as it would suggest that the contents of his ESA50 are insufficient to warrant a paper based assessment, if they were then I would have expect one to be done.

Contacting your MP

As to his CPN, he has first hand knowledge of your friends conditions and the training to explain them, so his help in filling out the ESA50 would undoubtedly be invaluable, but he does seem to lack knowledge of how the system actually works. For example; there is no legal requirement for the assessor to contact any of the claimants health professionals and the simple reality is they is the vast majority of claims they do not!

As to using bullet points rather than a more detailed response, I think the proof of this approach will be in the end result, although they don't seem to be doing very well so far.

Gordon