So I sent off my application for ESA as advised by my psychiatrist, a couple of weeks ago. My mental health and bipolar are spiralling out of control at the moment, which is making it all the more difficult to finish my application.
Anyway, I got a text a couple of days ago saying I'm missing some required evidence and a letter has been sent detailing what I need to send in. The letter said I need to send in an SSP1 from my employer and around 8 payslips.
Here's the problem: when I filled out the ESA form I was on sick leave but still employed. A few days after I sent it off, I resigned from my job as I knew I wasn't going back and felt I was bring unfair on the employer using the two weeks leave my sick note had said I needed off (I was told by my psychiatrist to claim sick pay for a couple of weeks while I have time to claim for ESA so I still have some income, however I felt this was immoral and so resigned after a few days of receiving the sick note). So the form they've told me to get from my employer I can't get, as I now have no employer.
It's worse still - the first time I was off sick for a week and a half I self certified, AND my employer instead gave me the time off as annual leave. The second time, I got a sick note and took it in to my employer, but once again he said he'd just give me it as annual leave, so the note was wasted (though I did keep it and sent it off with my ESA form). So I never got sick pay - I was just paid as normal and it was apparently put down as annual leave.
As for the pay slips...I never got any pay slips!!! My employer was terrible when it came to formalities - I never got a pay slip, it was just paid monthly into my account. I never signed a contact in the two and a half months I worked there (aside from a confidentiality agreement) and didn't get a P45 when I resigned!
I'm so confused about what to do. Along with being bipolar I'm also autistic (Aspergers) which is making this all the more difficult. I just don't know what to do :(
I'm living off my credit card because my DLA of £70 a week is paying off my mum, a tiny bit of rent, food, drink, cigarettes, trAnsport and my phone bill! I'm literally getting myself into debt just to afford to live!
Any advice what to do? PLEASE help.
Anyway, I got a text a couple of days ago saying I'm missing some required evidence and a letter has been sent detailing what I need to send in. The letter said I need to send in an SSP1 from my employer and around 8 payslips.
Here's the problem: when I filled out the ESA form I was on sick leave but still employed. A few days after I sent it off, I resigned from my job as I knew I wasn't going back and felt I was bring unfair on the employer using the two weeks leave my sick note had said I needed off (I was told by my psychiatrist to claim sick pay for a couple of weeks while I have time to claim for ESA so I still have some income, however I felt this was immoral and so resigned after a few days of receiving the sick note). So the form they've told me to get from my employer I can't get, as I now have no employer.
It's worse still - the first time I was off sick for a week and a half I self certified, AND my employer instead gave me the time off as annual leave. The second time, I got a sick note and took it in to my employer, but once again he said he'd just give me it as annual leave, so the note was wasted (though I did keep it and sent it off with my ESA form). So I never got sick pay - I was just paid as normal and it was apparently put down as annual leave.
As for the pay slips...I never got any pay slips!!! My employer was terrible when it came to formalities - I never got a pay slip, it was just paid monthly into my account. I never signed a contact in the two and a half months I worked there (aside from a confidentiality agreement) and didn't get a P45 when I resigned!
I'm so confused about what to do. Along with being bipolar I'm also autistic (Aspergers) which is making this all the more difficult. I just don't know what to do :(
I'm living off my credit card because my DLA of £70 a week is paying off my mum, a tiny bit of rent, food, drink, cigarettes, trAnsport and my phone bill! I'm literally getting myself into debt just to afford to live!
Any advice what to do? PLEASE help.