Key points of this subject
- There are three types of ESA: 'new style', contribution-based, and income-related.
- The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) will ask you to fill in a form with questions about your health in order to determine if you can work, and you will probably require a health assessment.
- If you get ESA, the DWP will place you in the ‘work-related activity group’ or the ‘support group’ depending on how difficult it is for you to work.
- If you join the work-related activity group (WRAG), you must attend meetings to discuss the level of support you need in order to be able to work.
- In the support group, you don’t have to go to meetings and you receive more money than you get in the WRAG.
- If you disagree with a decision about ESA, you can ask the DWP to look at it again and then you can appeal if you do not agree with their second decision.
