Overpayment of ESA

[Maggie]

Re: Overpayment of ESA

Hi TimD

Well if you find anyone who can unravel this problem then pass it on or me please! It is a farce to say the least with them holding all the cards.

Well we met up with Michelle from Fightback today in Manchester, it was really useful and for the first time in ages we felt somewhat uplifted. She is very knowledgable regarding welfare law and she advised us regarding our next steps. We had been told by the tribunal service two weeks ago that would hear in 13-17 weeks regarding a date for the hearing so plenty time to get all the SAR requests back......yeah right! Arrived home tonight to find a letter from the tribunal service to say the hearing is on 21 Feb!! That gives us no time at all to formulate and appeal, bearing in mind we have still not received all of our SAR requests. What are they playing at? Can't do anything until Monday now and then. Im not sure if there is anything we can do.

Im so tired and drained from it all and so is my husband.

[SXGuy]

Re: Overpayment of ESA

I know very little but something in the back of my mind says you can ask to move the tribunial back in order to receive the papers you need to outline your defence. dont take my word for it though, double check it with someone.

[Maggie]

Re: Overpayment of ESA

I know very little but something in the back of my mind says you can ask to move the tribunial back in order to receive the papers you need to outline your defence. dont take my word for it though, double check it with someone.

Hi SXGuy

Thanks for responding We hope you are correct in your thinking, we too wondered about this. Of course it is now the weekend so will have to wait till Monday before we can ring the tribunal service. You would like to think that in all fairness we ought to have the paperwork requested otherwise how are we expected to receive a fair hearing?

fingers crossed eh?

[Maggie]

Re: Overpayment of ESA

A quick update. We rang the tribunal Service on Monday morning and explained the situation. We were told only the judge can agree this therefore we have put it in writing and are waiting a response.

[Never-In-Doubt]

Re: Overpayment of ESA

Hi Timd

Just had an email from you saying you didn't think you had an account with AAD - this update is purely to highlight your threads existence.