Mandatory reconsideration

MissK wrote: As I haven't heard anything yet I have rang them today, and they now say it is with somebody for reconsideration, Im not sure what that means, if my payments wont start again after being put back in the support group, I have to wonder why they had me fill in all those forms, and why did they bother with the mandatory reconsideration in the first place
One person I spoke to said I have enough contributions, so don't know whats going on

Does it usually take this long do you know

Hi MK,

I am afraid that the information that you receive from Call Responders in The DWP Call Centres, can, to put it kindly, be "very sketchy".

The MR was to see whether you qualified for The SG. You were successful and were placed into The SG.

You have had to fill in an ESA 1 Form (Book) to restart your ESA Claim. (As previously advised by Gordon)

There is no need to "reconsider" The ESA 1 Form, once it is processed payment of CB ESA should be reinstated, and backdated from the date that the fresh ESA50 was received by ATOS/DWP.

So it is purely a matter of how long it takes to scan The ESA 1 onto your file, and restart your claim.

bro58

Thankyou very much, I will of course report back when I hear anything

Received a letter today stating that my payments would start again they are back dated to the date I had the phone call from the lady at DWP sating that she was recommending I go in the support group and that was July.

There wasn't any date on the letter as to when it is to, so I rang and they said until at least January 2015, so I can breath again for a while.

Thankyou so much for all your help and advise, so happy I found this site.