Does previous F2F count for next assessment ?

If you had a F2F last time for ESA, does it help at all in any way with someone not having one the next time ? Or does it make no difference at all ? I have had many assessments, and I usually give the same info each time, and I have no idea why but sometimes I have a F2F, sometimes I don't, sometimes I am in SG, other times WRAG, yet the info I send is the same as my condition is long term. I had a F2F back in 2014 and just sent off my ESA50 after being in SG for 3 years, do I have any higher chance of no F2F due to the fact I had one last time ? Cheers.

I can only comment on my own personal experience which is that I've had 2 f2f assessments since transferring from Incapacity benefit to ESA. The first one I went for, the doctor could not believe I'd been called in for a f2f after she read my forms and additional evidence etc. Even commented on the assessment report, (we asked for copies later), that 'the claimant looked very tired and unwell'.

Then 2 years later same thing all over again. This time the nurse, (who specialised in Fibromyalgia which is one of my conditions), told my husband and I that she couldn't believe I'd been called in AGAIN as it was clear from my own forms and the previous assessment records that it was clear that I would be unable to work! Weren't in there more than 15 minutes, (may have even been 10), and when the nurse had finished doing her typing, she told me that it would definitely be my last assessment since I'll have reached retirement age before the next one would be due.

I've been in the Support Group since my first f2f assessment. Mind you, I'm not resting on my laurels that I WON'T have to go through all that again before I hit my 65th birthday purely because I only had 2 years between the last two.

Good luck whatever happens.
Hippychick