I would never be able to shop someone. Having being falsely reported myself and was able to prove the reporter wrong, I know how nasty it can be. However, having problems myself with waiting for pip results and going thro mand recon for my esa with NO income at the mo (I have amazing kids who are helping us at the mo)...and knowing that someone in the next street who I known very well for years, bragging how she duped the dla and esa assessments with help from her kids, claims all housing benefits etc and doesnt declare her partner living with her who is on full pay.....leaves me feeling sick! So even tho I cannot bring myself to report someone, there are instances when I wish someone else would !!

This is the same as my hubby. Check your bank as you may find a payment there?. Its only because I phoned dwp about hubbys claim that they told me a payment for esa was going into his bank the next day. He had a medical form to complete in the post the next day and hasnt had any letter telling him he has been allowed esa payments lol.

Is that 6 interviews in one year? Whilst on Wrag ( up until my recently failed repeat medical) I had to attend every 4 weeks ..meaning some months I had to go twice lol at the beginning and end of the month. Food for thought there apologies, only now noted the date of that post, no doubt there have been changes by now lol

we signed back off jsa on the following Monday, three days after signing on. My husband has now applied for esa under his own medical problems to keep us going during my mand recon. But by the time they process it, I might have had the result of the mand recon lol

Apologies, repeated myself after I thought my first post hadnt appeared lol

This may be stopping as its probably the contribution based esa you are receiving. Its only payable for one year. You may be entitled to receive income based esa but depends on your household income

Hi Storm, you have encountered a similar problem to me. Despite arguing that if I was fit for work, I would not be going through mandatory reconsideration! I indeed signed on last Friday with my husband still putting forward the point that I am unable to work but she pressed on. After reading all the paperwork on the weekend we decided that we could not fulfill the obligations and would never get any jsa due to this so we signed off today and told them why. They asked how we would manage so I said I will have to start selling stuff lol ! why would we go through the long process of reconsideration and possible further appeal if we were fit for work !

Hello everyone, I am new here and I am being cheeky and tagging along with this post. I am in a similar situation as Storm. Had my esa medical "phone call" to say I had failed. I said I would be requesting the Mandatory Reconsideration and have asked for the paperwork to do so. Also told, like Storm, that I would have to claim Jsa for any incone as we dont have anything else coming in. (Applied for pip, still awaiting results, no doubt for a while yet). However, like most people, we are unsure what to do now. The nice lady (not) at the jobcentre was very brutal and insisted we look for work, despite the long list of my medical problems in the back of the form. My hubby is my full time carer and had medical problems of his own. My doctor has given me a (un)fit for work certificate and will keep giving them to me as long as Dwp need them. He doesnt understand how I was disallowed the medical. I read you cannot be put on Jsa whilst on a sick note? Perhaps I read wrong. we really dont know what to do. Can anyone give any other help apart from jsa, whilst waiting the mandatory time? apologies to Storm for jumping in on your thread.