If you want to read up on the Employment and Support Allowance. You may find this page from the Disability Alliance useful for background reading.  Although this mainly concerns new claims for the first time. At some point before 2015 all existing Incapacity Benefit claims will be migrated across.  Though this changes. The original date was 2010.

I am a great believer in forewarned is forearmed.

John.

P.s. I found this in a Trade Union magazine the other day and it applies to me and has been rolling around my head so I though I would share it. 

"If you fight you might not always win.  But if you don't try you will surely lose"