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Fit for Work Notes - April 2019

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The Department for Work and Pensions' (DWP) ESA65B letters, sent to ESA claimants' GPs are not to dissuade GPs from issuing fit notes for ESA appeal purposes. To claim otherwise is inaccurate. That said, the DWP has recognised that GPs have not found the letter clear on this point. The DWP are updating it with input from medical organisations and intend to clarify this with GPs in the meantime. 

To clarify, claimants can be paid Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) whilst appealing a decision, the rate of which is equivalent to that of Jobseeker's Allowance. In order for someone to be paid ESA pending an appeal they need to provide the DWP with fit notes in order to be treated as having Limited Capability for Work until the appeal is determined. This does not apply when the claimant fails a second Work Capability

Assessment or if the claimant's GP does not provide them with a fit note during the appeal period. In which case, the claimant would need to claim new style Jobseeker's Allowance or Universal Credit.

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  • Universal Credit (£20 uplift) - September 2021
  • Electoral Commission - July 2021
  • Joint replacement surgery backlog - July 2021
  • Intellectual Property changes - June 2021
  • Ethiopia - June 2021
  • Legacy Benefits - June 2021
  • Caged gamebirds - May 2021
  • Violence in Israel and OPTs
  • Climate Change
  • Supporting Cinema - March 2021
  • Visas for touring creatives in the EU - January 2021
  • NHS Pay - November 2020
  • Fire Safety Bill - September 2020
  • Animal Welfare - September 2020
  • Pesticide Standards - September 2020
  • Support for Asylum Seekers - September 2020
  • Cladding and EWS1 form - August 2020
  • Transport for under-18s - August 2020
  • Sustainable Fishing - August 2020
  • Coronavirus (COVID-19)
  • Human Rights in Bahrain - July 2020
  • Immigration detention - July 2020
  • Merging the FCO and DFID
  • NHS Pay Increase - June 2020
  • Food Standards - June 2020
  • UK-US Free Trade Agreement - June 2020
  • Race horse welfare - March 2020
  • Windrush 'Lessons Learned' report - February 2020
  • Ocean Conservation - February 2020
  • Dementia care - January 2020
  • Horse tethering - January 2020
  • Abortion in Northern Ireland - (Updated) July 2019
  • Fit for Work Notes - April 2019
  • NHS - (Updated) March 2019
  • Immigration Bill - March 2019
  • Religious Persecution of Christians - February 2019
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