Moving to income-related ESA

Hello,

Does anyone know what happens if someone sends off their application to move to income-related ESA (after the 365 days in receipt of contributions-based ESA are finished) late and once ESA payments have stopped, wishing to backdate the income-related payments to the day after the contributions-based payments ended?

Also, does anyone know what notifications should be received by a claimant informing them that ESA payments will be stopped after 365 days unless a successful application for income-related ESA is made?

Many thanks.

Hi Gateway,

I believe that DWP are supposed to write to the claimant 6-8 weeks before the contributary benefit will be exhausted. I do know that they are not always doing this and there doesn't seem to be any come-back.

I don't know whether the income-related will be backdated, maybe one of the more exoerienced mod's will be able to comment.

Thank you, Mrs H. and Gordon.

Gateway wrote: Thank you, Mrs H. and Gordon.

You are welcome