Support Group re-assessement

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I would start by having a look at our ESA Claim guides on the following link, they can be downloaded to your own computer and printed, either individual pages or the whole guide.

www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/help-for-claimants/esa1

The title of your post suggests that you are already in the Support Group, it would be worth your looking at your previous ESA50 and any documentation that you have as to how you qualified for the SG.

In case you are not aware, your epilepsy, however severe, cannot in it's own right qualify you for the SG, so you must have qualified either through another Descriptor or through what is known as Regulation 35, which looks at the dangers you would have if you were required to perform Work Related Activity, this is not work but the activities that might prepare you for work and includes things such as your attending interviews at a JC+ or training courses and preparing documents such as a CV.

If you did qualify under Regulation 35 then you must show that you still meet the criteria, the fact that you previously did will not be considered in any new assessment. This is covered in more detail in the Three ways to get into the support group section of the guides.

If you have any specific questions, then please reply to this post and we will do our best to help, you might want to bookmark it in your browser so that you can easily find it.

Gordon