long overdue reassessment esa

i was assessed for ESA in 2012, i was transfered from IB the process started April 2012. I was placed in the support group without a ftf. I have heard nothing since, still receiving correct monies and looking through my paperwork i did not receive annual upgrading letter this year.

Not complaining and i couldnt bring myself to ring but this does seem an awful long time, is this usual as i read other people are reassessed on a much more frequent basis.

many thanks and thank you for all you do

Thank you for your sound advice/view Gordon. I wont contact them its just the daily dread of the postman its such a strain at times.

Thank you for all you do

My award for ESA Support Group was supposed to end in June 2014, but absolutely nothing has changed and I don't receive annual letters anymore either - although I think this can sometimes be the case when the government freeze benefit rates, as they recently have done, since there's no increase for the DWP to tell you about.

My award was supposed to be for 1 year meaning it began in June 2013. Interestingly, I never had a face-to-face assessment because it was cancelled without a reason being given before I could attend, and the same thing happened with my form - the deadline wasn't up and I hadn't sent it yet, when they suddenly cancelled everything and just awarded me SG. No explanation, very weird; gathering what I could from the news section of this website, I assumed the backlog was so great that they hastily bundled some longterm claimants into the SG and indefinitely postponed their reassessments. This appears to have remained the case, though some friends of mine who were awarded SG at around the same time as me have recently been reassessed, so I fear that the dreaded brown envelope may be imminent. The way I try to look at it is, at least I've had almost 3 1/2 years and counting on an income that I can *just* scrape by on, which is more than can be said for many other people (or myself in the past).

Just wanted to let you that you're not alone.

I'm in the same position too. I was moved from Incapacity Benefit to ESA without an assessment at the end of 2012. I wasn't told how long for, and have certainly been expecting a re-assessment this year, but have had no letters/contact at all from the DWP.