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Adding another voice to it being fucking horrible. My 10 day late period and raging PMT are blates direct stress from ESA. In theory that one appointment aside I've had a great week but I feel shit. I keep bursting into tears.
 
Frances Lengel said:
So am I best to keep signing on/going to appointments at the JCP and going through the motions of jobseeking in the meantime then do you reckon?
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I would - don't hand them any excuses to deprive you of what you're entitled to.

No point in incurring sanctions at this stage.
 
WouldBe said:
I might need to use a 6" nail to hold all mine together when I need to fill one in. :eek: :)

Got my sanction overturned. :)
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I'm also pleased for you but agreeing with Greebo. This was a punitive sanction designed to save them money and meet targets. The fact that your life was made hell was incidental to them.

Well done - I hope you get the money they rightly owe you too.
 
Rang them today, it's as ericjarvis said - They haven't even got it on record yet. And it could take up to 8 weeks to process and backdate and that. In the meantime she did say yeah, just keep signing on as normal - Hope I don't fuck up and actually get a job in the 8 week period:eek: And to think all this could've been avoided if, when I initially failed the medical, I'd got a sicknote off my GP and claimed ESA at the appeal rate instead of just resigning myself to having been kicked off and signing on for JSA - Had I thought the appeal had a cat in hell's chance, that's what I would've done. There's a lesson there - Next time I'll be a lot more organised.
 
Frances Lengel said:
Rang them today, it's as ericjarvis said - They haven't even got it on record yet. And it could take up to 8 weeks to process and backdate and that. In the meantime she did say yeah, just keep signing on as normal - Hope I don't fuck up and actually get a job in the 8 week period:eek: And to think all this could've been avoided if, when I initially failed the medical, I'd got a sicknote off my GP and claimed ESA at the appeal rate instead of just resigning myself to having been kicked off and signing on for JSA - Had I thought the appeal had a cat in hell's chance, that's what I would've done. There's a lesson there - Next time I'll be a lot more organised.
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Just be erm.... not yourself at any interviews :D
 
Brain injured face benefits 'trap'

People with brain injuries are stuck in a 'revolving door' of benefits assessments, it has been claimed.
The brain injury charity Headway and personal injury lawyers Digby Brown have said many people with brain injuries are failing the government's new benefits assessments.

Many have their benefits reinstated on appeal...

Simon Glen, Headway project co-ordinator, claimed the assessors don't ask probing questions.

He said: "Thinking problems - problems with memory or planning or concentration - are all hidden but they really affect your life.
"If you don't remember how to get somewhere, where you are, or who people are, that really affects your life.

"The assessment process doesn't really pick up these cognitive problems."

Digby Brown has seen a big increase in the number of clients who are constantly having to go to appeal to have their benefits reinstated.
We know that conditions affect different people in different ways and can change over time, so it's right that people should be reassessed rather than written off to life on benefits”​
DWS
It provides a welfare rights service to its existing clients and also to people referred by charities such as Headway.
Official figures suggest around 30% of decisions are being overturned but Digby Brown says 90% of clients with brain injuries are having decisions reversed.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-21851998?SThisFB

DWP's kept a bit quite about those figures for brain injuries appeals
 
kittyP said:
Oh goodness you are all making me think I added nowhere near enough extra info :eek:
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I typed about 40 extra pages (but the majority of it was memory related), plus I added all the latest consultants' letters, listed his 4 consultants, along with their telephone numbers and addresses, plus other doctors and clinics he'd attended, and I even typed out a list of the last year's hospital appointments which took up a few pages :D

Also got a letter from his neuropsychiatrist stating that in his opinion, he wouldn't be fit for work at present or in the foreseeable future
 
Minnie_the_Minx said:
I typed about 40 extra pages (but the majority of it was memory related), plus I added all the latest consultants' letters, listed his 4 consultants, along with their telephone numbers and addresses, plus other doctors and clinics he'd attended, and I even typed out a list of the last year's hospital appointments which took up a few pages :D

Also got a letter from his neuropsychiatrist stating that in his opinion, he wouldn't be fit for work at present or in the foreseeable future
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Ok.
I guess he has been not working for quite a while?

I didn't have time or the head space to get a Drs letter stating extra information before it had to be sent off.
I gave them gp, cpn and psych name and address and last appointment dates but that all fitted on the form.
The only extra pages I added was for when I ran out of room on the form.
There wasn't really anything else I could give them tbh.
 
kittyP said:
Ok.
I guess he has been not working for quite a while?

I didn't have time or the head space to get a Drs letter stating extra information before it had to be sent off.
I gave them gp, cpn and psych name and address and last appointment dates but that all fitted on the form.
The only extra pages I added was for when I ran out of room on the form.
There wasn't really anything else I could give them tbh.
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No, not been working for a while now.

That's fair enough if you don't really have anything to add, but DWP's defence for people winning appeals is because they provided more paperwork, so I made sure they couldn't say not enough evidence was provided :D
 
Minnie_the_Minx said:
No, not been working for a while now.

That's fair enough if you don't really have anything to add, but DWP's defence for people winning appeals is because they provided more paperwork, so I made sure they couldn't say not enough evidence was provided :D
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Yeah that's what's worrying me.
I couldn't invent things though. :(
 
Minnie_the_Minx said:
You can only give them as much info as you have. I'm lucky, because he sees doctors/consultants regularly so I always have up-to-date letters I can provide
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Yeah, all the more specialised people I see never write to me. It's all organised over the phone.
 
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