Thanks for the response guys. I appreciate your input to this forum on other threads too! Nice to know there is advice available out there.

I've been on the work program for 6 months and have started to feel the re emergence of illness which I have suffered on and off most of my life. I should have good grounds to ask for a doctors note and begin the esa process until my condition improves or I am told by the gov I am fit for work. My concern is whether my contract with the work program will be restarted if I spend time on esa and then move back to jsa. So for instance, if I was put onto esa for 6 months now, I should only have 12 months left on the 2 year "program". My concern is if I recalimed jsa after this 6 months, the contract would begin again and I would restart from scratch with another 2 years to look forward to. Can anyone shed some light on this please?