Gareth wrote: I haven't recvieved my first ESA payment yet the bloke who rang me to tell me my WCA result said ESA will be start being paid in April. He did say that they would be sending me an ESA3 in case I needed to claim any extra money which in my case I don't or rather can't.
The usual process is for the claimants IB payments to continue for a further two weeks after the Decision and then for ESA payments to take over, so that there is no gap in payments and no requirement for a part payment.
Just to confirm the requirements for an ESA(IR) top-up, apart from income