ESA 0points - what happens now?

Gordon

Here I am again - still no letter - that makes 4 letters apparently saying the same thing swimming around between the Tribunal Service office in Birmingham and my home in Coventry .

However today is my ESA payment day so I always look on line to see if it has been paid in and I was wondering if I would even have a payment today. Well, here is the strange news - I have received my ESA but not at assessment rate or the rate you quoted me for the WRAG group Gordon - you quoted me £100. (cant remember the pence) per week but my fortnightly payment today was £220.10. I have also received today a lump sum of just over £1,000 which must be back pay.

I am absolutely gobsmacked that I have money in my bank and have still not been given a decision

As Mrs H said yesterday, you couldn't make it up.

Your opinion would be appreciated Gordon or whoever is on line this afternoon!!

left and right hand comes to mind with little inbetween!!!!!!!!!!!!
At least with some money in the bank you can smile and have a good Xmas.

Perhaps write a letter to the dept concerned rather than phonecalls as they can all deny a phone call but a paper trail is more difficult to dispute as long as it is a recorded delivery.

Judith wrote: Gordon

Here I am again - still no letter - that makes 4 letters apparently saying the same thing swimming around between the Tribunal Service office in Birmingham and my home in Coventry .

However today is my ESA payment day so I always look on line to see if it has been paid in and I was wondering if I would even have a payment today. Well, here is the strange news - I have received my ESA but not at assessment rate or the rate you quoted me for the WRAG group Gordon - you quoted me £100. (cant remember the pence) per week but my fortnightly payment today was £220.10. I have also received today a lump sum of just over £1,000 which must be back pay.

I am absolutely gobsmacked that I have money in my bank and have still not been given a decision

As Mrs H said yesterday, you couldn't make it up.

Your opinion would be appreciated Gordon or whoever is on line this afternoon!!

Hi J,

It looks very much that,even though your decision notices have gone astray, that the DWP have received their copy.

The only way to confirm this would be to contact The DWP, but it is looking very positive.

You are of course still entitled to a copy of the decision notice from the TS.

This is a legal right, in case you wished to request a written statement of reasons in going down the road to an appeal to The UTT.

If it is confirmed by The DWP that they have received the TS decision notice, and they have actioned it.

Depending on whether you are happy with The TS decision, (WRAG) which I seem to remember that you are, it will then be down to you whether you wish to press the TS further for a copy of the decision notice, which you are entitled to.

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Gordon

Just spoken to JobCentre - I am in WRAG for 2 years - haha - I will be on retirement pension in 9 months!! They have sent me a letter to tell me that I won so should get that soon unless it gets attached to the 4 other letters from the Tribunal Service Interestingly the girl I spoke to said I would have been put into WRAG because they thought I could get back to work - what planet are these people on.

Now I know the facts I will start my complaint to the Tribunal Service not that it matters for me anymore but they should be running a much more efficient admin department so I will complain hoping others will not be affected.

WE CAN AT LAST CELEBRATE - and maybe this very long thread will now go into the archives.

The mods and other members have encouraged me to keep going but it has been extremely hard and I still will not have any money from April 2014 until my retirement pension in September 2014.