Roughly 1.7 million current receive employment and support allowance in the UK
People all across the UK could be owed a monthly payment of more than £500, according to the Department for Work and Pensions .
The 'new-style' ESA is available to those below the state pension age, however, the claimants must have either worked as an employee of have been self-employed while paying enough to contribute to National Insurance. Usually, this must have been done in the previous two or three years, Wales Online reports.
All the medical conditions that qualify for ESA The DWP recognises 23 groups of medical conditions that qualify for ESA:
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