ES50 FORM, REQUEST DWP TO WAIVE OFF MEDICAL REVIEW

Rose

From your post you have requested a supersession (re-assessment) of your boyfriends claim based on a deterioration of his condition. As such you need to show that he now meets the criteria for the Support Group, as opposed to when he was placed in the WRAG and that the deterioration has occurred since then. The burden of proof lies with you to provide the evidence to support this (see below).

Your boyfriend will only avoid an ATOS assessment because there is sufficient evidence to support a recommendation on an award without it, to this end you need to speak to his GP and/or consultants in regard to their providing evidence to support his claim.

ATOS do have authority to write to those supporting him for more information, but it is important you stress to them that they only do this in around 25% of claims and there is simply no guarantee that they will do so in his case, especially as it you initiating the re-assessment, so their input now is very important.

Any information they provide must address the Support Group Descriptors (see the Guides), a statement of "unable to work" will be of little value and more specifically only refers to a WRAG placement not the SG.

Your goal at the moment should be to remove the need for an assessment in the first place, so whilst the Good Cause Jim has referred to in his post is important, you have not reached that stage yet and hopefully will not.

Please refer to our ESA Claim guides for assistance in completing the ESA50

www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/help-for-claimants/esa

If you have further questions, please reply to this post and we will do our best to help.

Gordon