I am not receiving any benefits whatsoever, and not received any ESA since end of March. This is because I am told that we, my wife and I, receive more than what DWP deem as the bottom limit, ie more than say £200 per week. Do you think it is worth contacting my MP about my situation, or would there be no change as it were. From your previous message, on the decision notice it says: 5. No Schedule 3 descriptor applied. Regulation 35 of the ESA Regulations 2008 did not apply. Is there anything I can do at all to get any further ESA payments, or have I come to the end of the line now?

Apologies for the late response here, but I have been giving DWP a chance to let me know what is happening. Last Monday gone, I ended up phoning DWP about my claim as I still have not had anything in writing. The person who I spoke to told me that as I am in a work related activity component, and as any previous payments were based on NI contributions and only paid for a year, I have now ran out of, or don't have anything left to be paid any further ESA. In other words my payments have stopped and will not be elegible to be paid anything else. So, even though I have now got 15 points, it means nothing as far as receiving any benefit is concerned. Also it would seem that I have wasted time and effort in persuing my ESA claim, as well as other peoples time. I have thought about contacting my MP about this, and the fact that I have not had anything in writing from DWP, but as what has been pointed out to me, that might be a waste of time also. The thing is, I only have another 8 months to wait before I get my State Pension, and even if I did receive ESA now, I probably would not be able to claim it when I am been paid my State Pension.

I'll give DWP until the middle of next week, and if I don't hear anything from them, I think that I will ring them, and see what they say.

Ok, I went for my ESA appeal this morning, and it was heard by a qualified female doctor and a male judge. After they asked me some questions about my disablement, I can now say that I have been awarded an extra 6 points on top of the 9 points I already have. So I now have 15 points and can get ESA payments now, I hope! The appeal took about 25 minutes or so, and I was asked to wait in the waiting room. After about 5 minutes I was called back into see both the doctor and judge, who gave me the good news. I have this in writing now, and see that the other side will also get the same decision. So hopefully it shouldn't be too long before I start receiving payments again. Just on that, do or should I have to do anything, like tell DWP , apply for esa again etc.

I also am awaiting a decision on my Mandatory Reconsideration, when I sent in a dpctors letter and a letter from myself. That was back at the beginning of April, and like the op, when I ring up I get either: a: we don't know what is happening, and we will get someone to call you back within 5 days to tell you what the delay is, OR b: we have sent the form back to the assessor, and are waiting for them to return it. So I also got my local MP involved, and he has written the DWP on my behalf , so we will wait and see if they do in fact say what the delay is.

I have been waiting for a mandatory reassessment since early April, and I have recently rang DWP, to ask what is happening, and guess what: they don't know! The guy said he will get someone to call me back in the next 5 working days.

I have had my dealings with both ATOS and DWP as I wanted to claim ESA. I am now at the appeal stage, but don't have a date yet, and after I went through the bundle paperwork I was sent, they have based their case on conjecture (lies)and assertions. No real facts at all.

Your last sentence says it all. My dad always told me that to be a liar you have to have a good memory. I caught someone at DWP telling me porkies, and then I proved what I said she back tracked.

Yes I have an appointment with CAB in about 2 weeks, and I have updated them with how DWP have treated me. I received a letter from Welfare Rights this morning saying they had also received the same bundle as I had. I have now an appointment with one of their appeal people next Wednesday.

It would NOT open as an audio recording and that is I wanted but did not get.

If it was an actual audio recording, then there would be a file probably a .wav or.flac or even .mp3 of a particular size. The said xml opened up in my webpages building program, and was only very small in size, about 3 lines if I remember right

Well all that was on the cd was an xml file, no recording whatsoever. I first tried on my computer then on my music cd player, nothing, no audio at all.

When I went for my assessment, audio recorded, after the assessment, the nurse went to give me a copy, but guess what, when I got home the disc was blank.

I received a second Doctors letter this morning and I scanned onto my PC as a copy. I then finished an introduction letter to the courts and tribunal service saying what what I was enclosing: 2 doctors letters, proof of receipt of the first letter and 5 pages of contradiction notes where I disagreed with the assertions in the bundle I received. I then went into town and hand delivered them to a security guy behind a desk, and telling him who they were for. So at least now I know for sure that the courts have all the required documentation from me.

I received all the Appeal documentation the other day, and I have spent a good few hours going through it. And its a good job I have done. From page 1 I have found assertions and conjecture relating to my disability. Some of the answers to my specific questions are straight out of a text book or manual, and do not go anywhere to answer my questions. I have typed up 5 pages of notes relating to the assertions etc, which I will use when the case goes to court.