My dh was awarded ESA in 2019. He had been working full time for many years before he became ill and his employers ended his contract due to his ill health. After a few weeks he was put into the support group for ESA and is still in it now. I think it gets looked at every July but is always just reawarded for another year and we are never contacted to fill in forms etc. He is also in receipt of PIP, so I did wonder if they just check if he's still got his PIP award and go off that (I am aware they are two different things, but you never know). My query is that I don't know what type of ESA dh gets. I know there is new style, contribution based and income related. I'm assuming it was originally contribution based as he'd worked for many years. We are a low income household and also get UC. I had to give up work to become his full time carer, but I don't ever remember being told he's now on income related ESA. Does anyone have any idea? I know I could possibly phone them but I don't fancy hanging on the phone for an hour waiting to be put through to someone!