ESA

Hi guys! Anyone else in the ESA support group received their ESA today? I noticed that the senders details have changed to ESA JSA…for the first time.
Are things further advanced than the govt would have us believe? Just curious!

Hi Gina1

I think you're probably referring to the description of your ESA payment on your bank statement? Whilst mine usually says
"[my NI number] DWP EESA and then the amount paid is shown I don't think that because your payment today is showing as ESA JSA has any great significance, I suspect its just the way their computer systems work, for example mine usually has "EESA" rather than ESA, this is said to be quite common and the additional E is said to have resulted from an error that the DWP has never corrected! I'm in the support group too, my payment day is not actually today, but what I would say to you is that as long as you get the payment as expected and for the expected amount I wouldn't try to work out whether a particular change of wording on a DWP payment into your bank account has any "deeper" significance re DWP benefits as a whole as I think this is unlikely!

Hope this helps.

Kind regards

Mr B

Thanks Gordon, I see! Best wishes

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