Hi Jude
You will only add stress to what is already a stressful situation wondering whether it is a way of removing people from the benefits list. There is no point - because even if it was true (and I don't believe it is) no one would ever admit to it.
Whether you will get the outcome you want - no one can predict. We haven't had many people feed back about ESA phone assessments. With the PIP phone assessments - as you would expect - some people had a good experience and some haven't.
BIS
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