The article itself doesn't mention Israel, so I took it to mean they can boycott G4S, Serco, Crapita, Atos, et al. Not for religious reasons, but on account of repeated shitness.
Called the DWP about an hour ago regarding my migration from DLA to PIP. They said I'm on the list for an appointment with ATOS. I'll try to get a home visit, but if I do end up at one of their assessment centres (Truro has two, apparently) I'm looking at getting a dual tape or CD recorder to...
I'm so sorry to hear this - they really don't make it easy. The whole sytem is so complex you have to be an expert or a cheat to understand it, and just when you think you know the score they change it all, so I've no idea how it all works now. Just been reading your other thread, what a palaver...
It's all gone to shit with my benefits, my ESA has been stopped and I'm about to lose my DLA and have to apply for PIP. It's not directly an ATOS issue so I won't go into detail here, but I could do with some support/advice if anyone's able to help (thread is here ESA stopped because partner...
...other option would be to admit that almost all that the Blair / Brown government had done - PFI, outsourcing, privatization, benefit "reform" (of the ATOS kind), weakening regulation and the rest - had wasted an unheard of amount of money, and they would have been wiped out as a party as a...
...later post (also badly typed and full of jargon) that paramedics have the sort of training that in your opinion makes them well qualified to be Atos assessors. As I said before:
Which 'groups' or 'populations' have a high first time sucess rate? do you have some info on this? I'd love to...
for those going through the process of assesment, this is an old but valuable thread, and includes anyone4 being assessed by any of the companies :-
Atos Medicals - Questions, Answers and Support
I moved from DLA to pip about 12 months ago, supported by folk here,
...since has been easy. hoops. Filling in the forms has reduced me to tears - and I'm not even the one who is ill. hoops.
Her re assessment with Atos was was cancelled twice making me take extra time off work at short notice, inconvenient for me and my employers. Hoops. hoops. hoops...
a good few years ago there was a Panorama or some such documentary that claimed that UK Paramedics 'had six weeks training' ...
at the time that was partially truthfully, as the theory part of a a 'Blue Book' Paramedic course was 6 weeks in Duration ...
However it ignored the fact that...
...on this forum a few years ago and I'm trying to offer that back to others going through these assessments. My own experience of dealing with Atos means I take a dim view of this useless, profit grabbing, heartless company and its harsh, underhand, sneeky methods.
No idea what most of this...
We can't repeat these words enough, those are what the govt guidance say you should be able to do.
Beware atos /whoever will take any small thing you do once in the interview, like picking up a pencil or travelling there on your own, as evidence that you can do that thing REPEATEDLY, RELIABLY...
This is why you have to be fairly brutal about presenting your "worst case scenario" as your everyday experience. If you don't, they'll pretty much mark you as "he can occasionally manage, therefore he can manage, therefore he doesn't need ESA".
It won't. In fact they're likely to take the...
If you filled in an ESA application form, then they'll be looking to cross-check your responses on the form with your responses on the assessment - basically, if they can get you to even mildly contradict yourself, you'll fail the assessment, as they're thoroughgoing scum.
If you haven't filled...
Just read online that these people were once called Maximus and they're like the new ATOS - did a search here for Maximus and found quite a lot of mentions, along with some good advice. Gonna research the points system, but am shit scared they'll think I'm not unwell enough to find work cos I...
Is this the thread to ask questions about any work capability assessments or just those done by ATOS?
Mine is going to be done by the Health Assessment Advisory Service, whoever they are.
I really don't know what I'm supposed to be telling them - the Assessment takes between 20-60 minutes, so...
Susan Bate
Written by her son, Paul Bate, on Atos Miracles Facebook
I, Susan Bate
Susan Bate was my mom, she was a single parent who worked while my Nan looked after me. Five years later my brother was born (his dad did a runner before the birth).
My brother was born with cerebral palsy and...
Do Atos do all assessments for the DWP?
I've been summoned for one on the 25th after 3 months on ESA.
But it's at the DWP head office. With a 'healthcare professional' (I assume that means they're not a proper doctor, otherwise they'd say so.
Shitting it tbh. Don't know what to tell them...
It sounds like you're pretty well set up to do some righteous arse-kicking here, even with what you do have. Not, of course, that you should ever have had to, but...
...last night and all the pages are accounted for. :eek: :(
Even though the DWP want to rule the transcript of the assessment inadmissible as ATOS have no recollection of a request to record the assessment, the part of the transcript where I start to black out and the HP apologises appears to...
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