ESA won at tribunal but still no payments

[pebs]

My mum won her tribunal on the 26th March but has yet to receive her ESA or backdated payments which go back almost 1 year.

 

Everytime she rings they say they have a backlog or there is nothing on the system. It is almost 2 months and she does not know what she can do.

 

Any advice please.

[Life-Goes-On]

Contact your mum's local MP, they have been known to get things moving.

[debt4get]

god these stories on this become more as every day passes what a joke of a system.....as above contact your MP and anyone else you can think of.....(tongue in cheek by the way) ' the trouble is us benefit scroungers always expect something for nothing'

[osdset]

I have been looking at this for a while, there is some evidence that the DWP are 'querying' appeal decisions as a matter of course rather than for specific reasons.

I suspect they are also bogged down with processing the amount of successful appeals.

Rest assured though that if an appeal is lost the DWP will waste no time in closing the claim.

[hantsie]

I would suggest something has gone horribly wrong.

After reading this thread it got me worried, My Tribunal was Thursday last week, I phoned up Newcastle this morning and they have informed me they have issued the back dated payment today and confirmed the amount and the date I will receive it.

 

All less than 3 working days after the Tribunal.

 

Maybe go to your local job centre and ask them to re-fax the tribunal decision and then chase them constantly.