Esa letter.

Hi , I wonder if anyone can help. I migrated over from IR ESA support group to UC couple of weeks ago, all went smoothly so far. Last week I had another Claimant Commitment to accept and when I queried this on my Journal I was told “As you was in ESA support group the Limited capability for work and work-related activity decision has been added to your claim. This has generated for Commitments to be accepted. These are in your to do list, please accept them.” Which I did. Today I received a letter saying your contribution based ESA will change to New style ESA on 30/10/24 and proceeds to say that they will contact me to book an appointment I must attend , your work coach will explain what you need to do to get New Style ESA and they will create an agreement with you called a Claimant Commitment which I must accept etc. Any clues as to what it’s for? It says my contribution based will change to new style. I was on Income related support group migrated to UC not contribution based. I have already “signed “ 2 claimant commitments on the journal and had interview with work coach. I’m wondering if my letter could be to do with the second claimant commitment ( mentioned above)I had to do coincidentally same date as the letter or if it’s a completely separate thing. I have put a message on my journal but wondered if anyone else has encountered this or knows what it means? TIA

Sorry to nosey in, but I have had the exact same letter! I was on income related ESA support group and had the same letter stating I would be on contribution based. I telephoned DWP advising them I was in the process of migrating to UC and had already signed the commitments etc but more importantly, to tell them they had made a mistake saying I was on contribution based ESA when I was in fact on income related ESA. The woman on the telephone told me I had been moved onto contribution based due to my ‘past work NI contribution stamps’ being up to date even though I haven’t been able to work for the last five years or so. She then said I will lose out on money each month and that she can’t tell me how much I will have to wait until my UC is worked out, but that I can still receive my ESA fortnightly is I so wish? I told her I thought the whole point of UC was to make things into one monthly payment but she claimed I was able to still be paid my ESA fortnightly is I want to. I am so confused and worried by the whole contribution based thing?