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#551 |
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Thank you both so much, some good points there to look into. At the moment I'm thinking he is probably going to leave it as is. It's just frustrating to think how a man in identical circumstances from a family who had a low income would have gone into the work related group with no time limit. Something is better than nothing though I guess. I will look into things more closely tomorrow
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#552 |
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Join Date: Mar 2016
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I will be getting my sick note to continue ESA on Monday (this will then be my second sick note).
Would I'd like to know is, how long is it usually before I get called up for an interview to see which groups I am placed in to? |
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#553 |
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Join Date: Nov 2015
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My oh was 17 weeks on assessment rate before he was called for his
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#554 |
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Join Date: Sep 2007
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Work Focused Interview
Received letter yesterday stating that I have to attend a Work Focused Interview TODAY. Cutting it a bit close, but the letter states it was sent over a week ago but as always Royal Mail are rubbish so it took a bit of time to get to me. I have been to a couple of these before, one three years ago at which point they put me on the work programme with Ingeus (complete waste of time). The second being a year ago when my work programme stint had come to an end, which cemented that the work programme was a waste of time due to the fact they had sent over the wrong file (They sent a file belonging to a relative instead of myself.) So I had to give the lady doing the interview all of the right information.
Now both of these were pretty straight forward, and I was for the most part able to cope with them, other than being a little fidgety. This one however is different as the letter states "This will be a group session, if you would prefer a 1 on 1 meeting please give us a call." Obviously they will claim it is too late to rearrange for a 1 on 1, and to be honest I just want to get this over with. I am hoping somebody can give me a little information before 2pm about how these group sessions work, how many people are usually involved, basically any information would be a great help. I have never heard of them doing this type of thing as a group session before so was never going to be prepared for it. Thanks in advance for any information you might be able to give. |
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#555 |
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Received letter yesterday stating that I have to attend a Work Focused Interview TODAY. Cutting it a bit close, but the letter states it was sent over a week ago but as always Royal Mail are rubbish so it took a bit of time to get to me. I have been to a couple of these before, one three years ago at which point they put me on the work programme with Ingeus (complete waste of time). The second being a year ago when my work programme stint had come to an end, which cemented that the work programme was a waste of time due to the fact they had sent over the wrong file (They sent a file belonging to a relative instead of myself.) So I had to give the lady doing the interview all of the right information.
Now both of these were pretty straight forward, and I was for the most part able to cope with them, other than being a little fidgety. This one however is different as the letter states "This will be a group session, if you would prefer a 1 on 1 meeting please give us a call." Obviously they will claim it is too late to rearrange for a 1 on 1, and to be honest I just want to get this over with. I am hoping somebody can give me a little information before 2pm about how these group sessions work, how many people are usually involved, basically any information would be a great help. I have never heard of them doing this type of thing as a group session before so was never going to be prepared for it. Thanks in advance for any information you might be able to give. |
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#556 |
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Well my MR failed still with zero points, so just need yet another tribunal to sort out. Even with extra evidence and proof of things like side effects they seem to not even took any notice and still 0 in both.
Well I do have the advisor to go with me this time (done esa and iidb tribunals alone and won both) so I will need another battle to plan for. Tribunal evidence arrived today from courts, in two envelopes. Just need to wait for a court date now I guess. I do have more evidence, does anyone know if it is worth sending it in at this point, or just save for the tribunal? |
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#557 |
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^ I'd send it to them as soon as possible. In my experience, if you send all your evidence in advance then the tribunal panel will be up to speed with everything once you go in and you'll hopefully be asked fewer questions.
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#558 |
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An ESA50 arrived in my post box today
I had to go through an extremely stressful appeal process after the last time I had to send in one of these. I understand they have to maintain their records but I have an incurable illness, why do I have to keep answering the same questions? Yes DWP, still got that incurable illness, not sure why you'd think I don't have it any more.
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#559 |
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Join Date: Jul 2005
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An ESA50 arrived in my post box today
I had to go through an extremely stressful appeal process after the last time I had to send in one of these. I understand they have to maintain their records but I have an incurable illness, why do I have to keep answering the same questions? Yes DWP, still got that incurable illness, not sure why you'd think I don't have it any more.I do believe the Government should organise trips to Lourdes as part of the support group programme as they do seem to believe in miracle cures. |
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#560 |
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An ESA50 arrived in my post box today
I had to go through an extremely stressful appeal process after the last time I had to send in one of these. I understand they have to maintain their records but I have an incurable illness, why do I have to keep answering the same questions? Yes DWP, still got that incurable illness, not sure why you'd think I don't have it any more. |
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#561 |
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*be really weary we recently moved nothing has changed in terms of "change of circumstances" My brothers money wasn't there when he rung they considered the move a change of Circumstances 40 minute interview over the phone they finally saw it really was just a move. And the money was there 4 hours later but stress that totally wasn't needed.
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#562 |
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Join Date: May 2004
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An ESA50 arrived in my post box today
I had to go through an extremely stressful appeal process after the last time I had to send in one of these. I understand they have to maintain their records but I have an incurable illness, why do I have to keep answering the same questions? Yes DWP, still got that incurable illness, not sure why you'd think I don't have it any more. |
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#563 |
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Join Date: Jul 2014
Location: Station Eleven
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Thanks for the advice
That's a really great idea to send in a copy of my tribunal decision, I'll definitely do that.Because my condition hasn't changed much, and also because it's often difficult for me to see a GP, there isn't much in my medical records that details all my limitations and so there's not much I can offer by way of supporting evidence. A GP can't say "I have observed the patient struggling to walk for 20 meters" because they don't make those kinds of observations. Despite the previous tribunal decision I fear I'm going to have to go through the entire process again. |
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#564 |
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Join Date: Apr 2013
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Medical on Saturday terrified.
I have my medical on Saturday I am absolutely terrified. I have thought about nothing else for 12 day since the appointment letter came.
My doctors surgery is crap. It is nigh on impossible to ever get an appointment. And needless to say they have messed me around since I asked for a personal letter from the docror. I have very little medical evidence except my prescription historuy that I am in chroniic pain with back and hip problems and very bad depression. I am on Fentalyn for the pain and mirtrazapine fro the depression. I have had a couple of exploratory tests for my anemia, a colonoscopy which I made them stop halfway through because of the pain. One of the locums at our surgery threatened me with social services if I refused to the colonoscopy as she said I wasnt making good decisiona about myself and therefore our daughter was at risk! Needless to say I will never be candid with a GP again. If they sstopped my money or forced me into work I would fall apart. I just cant do it. Any takers out there with some advice/ |
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#565 |
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I have my medical on Saturday I am absolutely terrified. I have thought about nothing else for 12 day since the appointment letter came.
My doctors surgery is crap. It is nigh on impossible to ever get an appointment. And needless to say they have messed me around since I asked for a personal letter from the docror. I have very little medical evidence except my prescription historuy that I am in chroniic pain with back and hip problems and very bad depression. I am on Fentalyn for the pain and mirtrazapine fro the depression. I have had a couple of exploratory tests for my anemia, a colonoscopy which I made them stop halfway through because of the pain. One of the locums at our surgery threatened me with social services if I refused to the colonoscopy as she said I wasnt making good decisiona about myself and therefore our daughter was at risk! Needless to say I will never be candid with a GP again. If they sstopped my money or forced me into work I would fall apart. I just cant do it. Any takers out there with some advice/ |
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#566 |
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Join Date: Apr 2013
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In 2006 I had to go through the appeals process and finally won. My health has deteriorated since then, would it be helpful to show them the tribunals result as evidence or not?
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#567 |
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It's impossible to send them too much evidence.
Better to send too much than too little. |
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#568 |
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It's impossible to send them too much evidence.
Better to send too much than too little. They called me a liar and said the medication I was on was unneeded. I have OA, tendinitis in both shoulders, OA in neck, depression, anxiety , obesity, Ibs, Urinary frequency, and a few minor ailments. Nice to know that my GP and hospital specialists are liars heh... |
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#569 |
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Not too sure on that, for my Pip I sent in 17 pieces of evidence. And I got 0 points for both (did have 16 care and 8 mobility before a Capita lied on my report)
They called me a liar and said the medication I was on was unneeded. I have OA, tendinitis in both shoulders, OA in neck, depression, anxiety , obesity, Ibs, Urinary frequency, and a few minor ailments. Nice to know that my GP and hospital specialists are liars heh... |
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#570 |
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Pip is based on the care and mobility needs you have. Not the names of the conditions.
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#571 |
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Join Date: Nov 2007
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Pip is based on the care and mobility needs you have. Not the names of the conditions.
People say this as if implying somehow DLA was less rigorous - in fact, I always found it to be far more rigorous. It's just government spin, pretending they've created a superior system to the old, 'faulty' one. |
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#572 |
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It makes my blood boil.
did you see that C5 show last night? that guy on DLA spending it on Betting and rubbish. with the likes of C5/4 daily mail and sun. They propagate this myth everyone on Benefits is just a con artist and all the reforms are vital. I went through utter hell with ATOS years ago, even will all the doctors supporting me |
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#573 |
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Join Date: May 2004
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I have my medical on Saturday I am absolutely terrified. I have thought about nothing else for 12 day since the appointment letter came.
My doctors surgery is crap. It is nigh on impossible to ever get an appointment. And needless to say they have messed me around since I asked for a personal letter from the docror. I have very little medical evidence except my prescription historuy that I am in chroniic pain with back and hip problems and very bad depression. I am on Fentalyn for the pain and mirtrazapine fro the depression. I have had a couple of exploratory tests for my anemia, a colonoscopy which I made them stop halfway through because of the pain. One of the locums at our surgery threatened me with social services if I refused to the colonoscopy as she said I wasnt making good decisiona about myself and therefore our daughter was at risk! Needless to say I will never be candid with a GP again. If they sstopped my money or forced me into work I would fall apart. I just cant do it. Any takers out there with some advice/ Quote:
It makes my blood boil.
did you see that C5 show last night? that guy on DLA spending it on Betting and rubbish. with the likes of C5/4 daily mail and sun. They propagate this myth everyone on Benefits is just a con artist and all the reforms are vital. I went through utter hell with ATOS years ago, even will all the doctors supporting me What really gets me is that there are many more benefit investigators going after £1 billion of benefit fraud than there are HMRC tax inspectors going after £40 billion of tax avoidance and evasion money because the politicians want their wealthy mates and party donors left alone. Our French friends would be vigorously protesting in the streets about such an unfair situation but the Brits just sit back and take it. |
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#574 |
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Join Date: Dec 2011
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Okay. Hoping someone might be able to help. I filled in a ESA50 renewal a couple of months ago. I have been on ESA for a few years. The last time I didn't have to attend a medical as I had a letter from my CPN which might have made a difference. I got a letter on Wednesday for a face to face appointment in a couple of weeks down my local centre where these things happen. My condition has gotten a lot worse since last time and my relationship has broken down with the mental health team. I haven't left the house for over a year. Basically I wondered how easy it is to get a face to face home assessment visit. I know I have to have a fax from my GP to send to the DWP to justify why I need a home visit. I have a phone call arranged with my GP for next week. I don't know what to say. Will my GP know about home visits for assessments and also what is the likelihood of being granted one?. I could go to the FTF but basically I would have to have a shedload to drink beforehand because my anxiety is so acute. If anyone has any advice I would be grateful and thank you in advance.
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#575 |
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Okay. Hoping someone might be able to help. I filled in a ESA50 renewal a couple of months ago. I have been on ESA for a few years. The last time I didn't have to attend a medical as I had a letter from my CPN which might have made a difference. I got a letter on Wednesday for a face to face appointment in a couple of weeks down my local centre where these things happen. My condition has gotten a lot worse since last time and my relationship has broken down with the mental health team. I haven't left the house for over a year. Basically I wondered how easy it is to get a face to face home assessment visit. I know I have to have a fax from my GP to send to the DWP to justify why I need a home visit. I have a phone call arranged with my GP for next week. I don't know what to say. Will my GP know about home visits for assessments and also what is the likelihood of being granted one?. I could go to the FTF but basically I would have to have a shedload to drink beforehand because my anxiety is so acute. If anyone has any advice I would be grateful and thank you in advance.
Sorry I don't know if they are likely to change it to a home visit now at such short notice. |
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I had to go through an extremely stressful appeal process after the last time I had to send in one of these. I understand they have to maintain their records but I have an incurable illness, why do I have to keep answering the same questions? Yes DWP, still got that incurable illness, not sure why you'd think I don't have it any more.

That's a really great idea to send in a copy of my tribunal decision, I'll definitely do that.