ESA - strange things.. is this correct..

I have been on ESA for just over a year.. Was sent ESA50 to fill out.. Sent that off by the 21st Dec.. Just looked at my bank online.. Payment from ESA 193.70.. Divided by 2 that equals 96.85..

Have I been awarded the support group for ESA without being told.. or am I hoping against nothing.. Very confused..

It looks very much like it.

The basic allowance is £65.45 and the support group premium is £31.40, which adds up to £96.85.

Well thank flip for that.. Next the battle for DLA I suppose.. How can a govt which know first hand the expense and hard life a disabled person may suffer.. ie Camerons child.. still be up for all the ideaological cuts they are planning.. I stood/stand to be worse off by 90 odd pound a week.. if I did not get in the support group.. Yet I paid NI for over 20 years.. Then I contracted MS.. an incurable.. progressive disease.. Was that my fault.. Seems under coalition rules it was..

Cameron is a millionnaire and didn't see his child grow to adulthood. Whilst his child may have given him an insight into love and pain, I don't think that it will have taught him anything about the financial precariousness of sick and disabled people.

Survivor wrote:

Cameron is a millionnaire and didn't see his child grow to adulthood. Whilst his child may have given him an insight into love and pain, I don't think that it will have taught him anything about the financial precariousness of sick and disabled people.

So true, but it didn't stop him maximising it for public sympathy along the lines he knows how important the NHS is as he has had personal experience. As if he would ever have had to join a waiting list.
I accept there are people claiming IB and ESA who shouldn't but what I can't stand is the blanket approach of tarring everyone with the same brush. It goes strongly against the British way of life where someone is deemed innocent until proven guilty. Now you have to prove you're innocent.

Rant over.