IB to ESA

I received my form this morning, deep joy. It's a week since the intitial phone call. Is there a reason why some seem to receive the form quicker than others? As in mine and Summertrains cases?

You need to ask the DWP office that sent it. We cannot be expected to know about these matters.

Karlo

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Gordon

Gordon

Fair enough I'll revise the post.

Aren't ATOS Origins responsible for sending out ESA50 forms as opposed to the DWP?

Gordon wrote:

Karlo wrote:

Hi all

I received the letter last week and I've just had the telephone call, which was obviously read from some type of script lol. Anyway the very pleasant lady I spoke too seemed to think after the call it goes like this. Allow 7-10 working days for the form to arrive, then up-to 4 weeks to fill it in, then two weeks to hear about a medical then after that three weeks to hear the decision. Now that to me seems a very quick turn around, has anyone's conversion gone that smoothly?

They used to

My impression is that this is not the case now, except very rarely, the time from returning the ESA50 to a potential assessment has increased by at least a week (it's much longer if you want your assessment recorded), and from the assessment to a Decision has increased by at least a month and in many cases by several months if not longer.

Gordon

I am very suprised to hear this, that it is only taking about 4 weeks to organise assessments. It took me 9 to even get the ESA50 form posted out.