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ATO has been in use for donkeys years. The Victoria Line has been using it since it opened. The driver doesn't actually "drive" the train.

I didn't know you could do that *checks CAB website* You mean this number here 03444 111 444?

Thanks thats good advice, I have all my health records as I needed them for my ATOS interview so I'll pull them together and get some more up-to-date stuff from my doctor, I figure if I go in with all the information they need and be as honest about everything as I can be, it can't surely go...

Why did you not disclose your savings? I don't mean to worry you but if you have falsely claimed £7K they will take this very seriously. Your best bet would be to turn up and hope that you can agree an acceptable repayment plan with them. At the moment you are only a compliance case which...

...mental health team. During this time I was suicidal. I had 5mths of CBT followed by 2mths of Mindfullness therapy. May 2014 After a medical with ATOS I was moved to the support group & my ESA increased. My family have researched about undisclosed savings & looked through all of my accounts...

They've deployed with Litening II (made in Israel!) not RAPTOR so they are not doing any meaningful recce beyond the stoker peering over the canopy rail with rheumy eyes. Really the Tornados are a net negative to the coalition effort as they are slow, hard to refuel and have very poor...

air operations are governed by an Air Tasking Order, an incredibly complex document that governs exactly what every single aircraft will be doing for every second its in the air - its purpose is to ensure that aircraft don't bump into each other, that there are tankers in the right place at the...

Hang 'em all. Let ATOS sort them out.

no. the victoria line was driver-only (or 'automatic train operator' only) from the outset, and still is - they travel in the front cab - open and close doors at stations, and press the 'go' button - they then normally don't have to take control until the next station. They also drive the...

There have never been guards on the Victoria line. AFAIK the line was designed for the doors to be operated by the "drivers" who actually don't drive too much as the trains are semi automated. At least that has been the case since I have been using it (from 1977). Wikipedia reports: The line...

All of which were also proposed by various Labour-aligned think-tanks back when Labour were in power, too, except for sub-inflation increases. The policy ideas came from the supposedly-ameliorative proponents of capitalism, not the red-in-tooth-and-claw side. Or by electing Labour.

Whilst it's entirely fair to attack the previous Labour government for introducing WCA/conditionality, ATOS, sanctions etc the Tories have gone much further in abolishing DLA, capping benefits, giving subinflation increases, cutting budgets for carers... But I agree it's the neoliberal agenda...

I know you weren't. This is where the support on here comes in handy, for people with insufficient support elsewhere. As much as I hated filling in the ESA50, I would sooner have one of those to fill, rather than being summonsed for a face to face without one. :)

...are getting decimated. Not just down south either. And I understand not everyone has a support network of family/friends etc around them. I was merely trying to point out (badly it seems) that Atos and/or the DWP can't use the difficulties someone has filling a form in as an excuse not to...

All of the Incapacity Benefit medicals I had (administered, if I recall correctly, by doctors working for Schlumberger-Sema, the company that had the contract for doing so at the time), you were very much observed by the reception staff. As I walk with sticks, and take a while to sit on or rise...

Tell me about it. Even before ATOS, it was obvious at IB assessments that the doctor was assessing VP before the official start of the "medical". So was the receptionist, from what I could see. For one thing, the attitude towards apparently able-bodied and cheerful people in the waiting room...

Aww wow, :( that made for a really depressing read.

...up in mental health hospital again for a few months. Hardly a cost saving exercise is it! I've also heard that their are bonus incentives for atos staff to get people off of benefits, but i can't say for sure that's true. IMO this system only serves to go after the most vulnerable people...

...that it doesn't need to be deliberate, it can just be a combination of ignorance and lack of empathy which is unfortunately standard for ATOS and the DWP. But when you combine that with a tendency to worry unproductively about existing problems, and also imagine possible problems which may...

Problem being that in terms of "support workers" and welfare advice generally, most local authorities have shed staff since 2010. Here in Lambeth we've lost about 60% of the welfare rights/support infrastructure/staffing over the last 4 years - there literally isn't enough help to go around...