SDA to ESA ?

bro58 wrote:

carruthers wrote:

Gordon wrote:

Amber

The IB/IS/SDA transfer only started in April this year and is scheduled to run till April 2014, so I think you still have a while to wait

Gordon

Has there been any clarification on the order in which the SDA recipients are to be assessed for ESA?

Last time I read any comments on here, there seemed to be no organised programme for the switch-over at all.

Hi C,

This was the way it was supposed to be. :


IB claimants will be transferred based on their re-assessment date, if you have been exempted the PCA, then you are likely to be transferred in the first year. If you have no re-assessment date and are not PCA exempt, then a date has been allocated.

SDA claimants will be assessed later rather than sooner and those receiving IS because of ill health will be transferred last.

If you reach State Retirement Age before April 6 2014, you will not be transferred.

There will be variations from one centre to another to maintain a constant throughput of transferees, which may mean you being called later or sooner than anticipated.

(Copy and pasted from a previous post by Gordon.)

However as you may have gathered this is not the way it is.(Except for the State Retirement Age bit.)

cheers

bro58

Hi,

Just to clarify, the information above given by Gordon, was the same given by the DWP, before the start of the migration process earlier this year.

We now know from members, that it is not happening that way.

cheers

bro58

Thanks Gordon for your reply.I haven't found anyone here that has been called up to switch from SDA to ESA yet, so hopefully it will be a while yet.I will do as you say and start doing some research on here.
Thanks again