Phantom ESA50 to Medical as marked 'Mental Health'

Gordon, thanks for the further info.

Yes the correspondence will be in his name and done with his permission and signed by him.

It is of course possible that the form went 'missing' and that the not receiving it issued a medical assessment which also went 'missing'. This would be standard practice if a vulnerable claimant did not return a form and is preferable to the benefit being stopped on a technicality, although a reminder might be better. This would also be more preferable to the alternative of deliberately not sending a form because he had a mental health problem which as I said I haven't heard of happening but I can see why you have got this impression from the sounds of your conversation. Gordon suggests sending the form in ASAP and I suggested taking it to the medical to be absolutely sure the assessor had it in front of them. As a compromise you could send the form in but make sure a copy is taken to the medical as well. Alternatively you might be able to get a home visit via a letter from the GP and then maybe someone could be there with him?

survival71 wrote: Gordon, thanks for the further info.

Yes the correspondence will be in his name and done with his permission and signed by him.

Hi s71,

There is a template SAR letter at the bottom of this page :

www.ico.org.uk/for_the_public/personal_information

bro58

bro58 wrote:

survival71 wrote: Gordon, thanks for the further info.

Yes the correspondence will be in his name and done with his permission and signed by him.

Hi s71,

There is a template SAR letter at the bottom of this page :

www.ico.org.uk/for_the_public/personal_information

bro58

With respect to a SAR to the DWP :

SAR Form Download

From this page :

DWP Data Protection Policy

bro58

Thanks for the form links.

An update regarding the SAR. We phoned Atos today to check for the assessment centre address to write to, when I phoned the local assessment centre I was told the ESA file has gone back to the local BDC after the claimant didn't turn up for the medical 11th Nov.

Does this sound the correct procedure for the file?

If we think it is, then instead of sending to Atos we're thinking to send a downloaded SAR form to the local BDC rather than a template letter, and ask for all computer data, as well as copy of the phantom ESA50.

During the 40 days wait for the info we could then delay any new medical appointment by as you suggested, asking the GP to write in requesting a home visit
- would this be addressed to the local BDC or Atos or copied in to both?

Also today a blank ESA50 arrived in the post, but we have already typed half of the downloaded ESA50.
-Should we still send this in asap?

I expect they won't be able to argue the new form we send in was the one on 12th July with it being signed & dated December.