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All of this is very helpful too, I'm just wondering how best to present that sort of info to them. It doesn't necessarily come up as answers to their generic questions, so combination of medical records and my own "diary" sounds like the way to go. And the bit I've highlighted sounds very...

...the side effects and how they affect you. I'll be honest, most of this will make bugger all difference if you get assessed by the standard atos drone. but gathering them together now will allow you to prove you did give the asessor all the available information when you go to appeal. if...

...form way back then, the only evidence which I have submitted has been regular medical certificates from my GP. I've finally had a letter from ATOS calling me in for an "assessment with a healthcare professional" in early December and I've got a couple of questions I hope people can help me...

Indeed. It is up to the individual whether they decide to observe the two minute silence, or indeed any other aspect of remembrance. I'm an ex-soldier, today I sat in silence and remembered my colleagues that are no longer here. A personal thing, no one else in my office knew these people. I...

A well balanced post, ta.:thumbs:

...see people trying to make political capital out of their deaths, while traumatised and injured soldiers are being listed as fit for work by atos. it's not the remembering that's the bloody problem. it's the feeling we all are being pushed into becoming part of a fuciking circus of...

Welcome to Nick3535, congratulations to longdog and good on ya to Roadkill.

I've been claiming ESA since September of last year and I've finally had a letter from ATOS calling me in for an "assessment with a healthcare professional" in early December. Once I've read the info sheet, I may be back with some questions...

...a physiotherapist (and a crap one at that) to do a mental health assessment, well, it's no wonder that many people applying for the benefit say to hell with this and just sign off it. If you'd like to help others, Roadkill, try your local CAB or even the Atos Support thread here on urban (in...

...MR is there purely as an obstacle to discourage claimants from appealing. If you don't have a copy of the Medical Report (ESA85) written by the ATOS chimp then get hold of one now. When you get kicked back from MR go straight to appeal. Once you have submitted the appeal form (which only...

...I can barely walk anywhere now without being breathless and in so much pain I have to stop. So how I scored ZERO this time is beyond me?!?! The Atos ''Doctor'' told me the rules are stricter now for Epilepsy than they were before, but all the info I have read to date still says you get 15...

I think it will realistically be more than that.

They are coming to his house, which is better, they can see the stanna stair lift, see how he can hardly get to the front door to open it. Will give him the heads up regarding continence....

In the 15-ish years I've been "on the scrapheap", I've never taken any question an assessor asks as "casual" (having been a former bureaucrat myself, I was somewhat wise to their tactics, thank fuck!). Unfortunately, Greebo and I know quite a few people who do/did, at least in the first...

indeed. similarly, you may have bad days and days that are merely indifferent. ATOS and the like may not see things like that. If the assessor asks what may seem like a casual question about how you got there, it's not a casual question...

Although "independence" is a bit of a moveable feast. I got to my appt "independently", but that was independence assisted by Greebo, a minicab and a brace of walking sticks, the walking bits of which I covered slowly and painfully.

I'll be taking my trusty Olympus digital dictaphone along, once ATOS actually get round to sending me a new appointment, the dicks.

Indeed. There have been some suggestions that the ATOS 'health care professionals' tend to scale back the general level of twuntitude if there's a witness. Also, depending on the disability / health condition involved, being able (physically or psychologically) to get to the assessment...

18 months to clear the backlog, says Maximus: http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/nov/08/fitness-to-work-assessment-backlog-maximus-health-services-atos

((Chris.H.1961 )) Do post on the ATOS thread. The TLDR version is that everything is set up to deliberately fail you to stop you from claiming, but if you persevere to the tribunal stage, you will get a fair hearing. As for free internet, libraries often offer it.