The ESA Scam

This morning I received my new ESA 50 form and now have to figure out how to fill it in and get across the ruddy obvious.

Out of interest I pulled up the schedule 2 descriptors from the Employment and Support Allowance Regulations 2008 (http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/794/schedule/2/made) and did a quick score.

Amazing I scored 72 Points, I didn't have to think about the answers, I just answered the questions they asked. No squeezing my brain to figure out what there actually asking, just simple straight forward activities and sensible descriptors. Ok some are a bit oddly worded, but by the time you have read your 5th government document you get used to those.

Then I pulled out the ESA 50, I read each question, read it again because my brain couldn't understand the question, what are you actually asking. I still have no idea, so I called in my carer, yes I have one of those but am fit for work, the DWP and the Appeals panel both agree with the limited little box I need to fit in I am fit for work.
I can get up and get dressed (shirt, track pants, robe, slippers) and make my own breakfast (porridge, microwave) so I am obviously capable of going to work.
I can sit in an adjustable chair and I can use a keyboard, oh and yes, at 50 I can use a pencil, I can think of a few things I would like to use a pencil for, but none of them come under what it was designed for.
So I am obviously fit for work.

So between us we looked at the questions and the descriptors, discussed each one, scraped away at the strange wording and finally think we may have scraped out 30 points, as long as I am really careful how I answer the questions.

Of course we all know that no matter how much medical evidence I include they won't believe me.

I brutally expect to have appeal for a 5th time in 5 years, I have had to appeal everything, why because 1st my employers lied about the accident and said it didn't happen.
Even now, long after the same DWP found it was an industrial accident, the same DWP found me to be physically 40% disabled for life and the same DWP awarded me Industrial Injuries Benefit at 40% for Life.
I am still fighting.