ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
They paid me! I'm going to be able to clear all my debts!And then go into more debt to pay for a DELTA course.
And yes, for the sake of my credit rating it is, bizarrely, better to do it that way round.
Told ya!
Atos Medicals - Questions, Answers and Support
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Told ya!
equationgirl
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WouldBe
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Had another letter from the DWP. I am entitled to IS / severe disability allowance but they have worked it out to be about half what I did althogh that only goes back to May this year and not when they stopped paying my DLA early last year. 
However they are withholding it as their records show they may have made an overpayment AGAIN that was cleared up 2-3 weeks ago.
Perhaps I should ask them for the interest on all this money they have withheld for the last 15 month. 
However they are withholding it as their records show they may have made an overpayment AGAIN that was cleared up 2-3 weeks ago.
Perhaps I should ask them for the interest on all this money they have withheld for the last 15 month.
equationgirl
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BREAKING NEWS - Move to PIP delayed
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-24680366
Now not happening to everyone from next week, although who it will apply to is not yet clear.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-24680366
Now not happening to everyone from next week, although who it will apply to is not yet clear.
equationgirl
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You should ask them for interest.Had another letter from the DWP. I am entitled to IS / severe disability allowance but they have worked it out to be about half what I did althogh that only goes back to May this year and not when they stopped paying my DLA early last year.
However they are withholding it as their records show they may have made an overpayment AGAIN that was cleared up 2-3 weeks ago.
Perhaps I should ask them for the interest on all this money they have withheld for the last 15 month.
Usual late payment interest rate is Bank of England base rate + 8 points APR.
Nice one - There's a few people on this thread who've ended up getting a decent result. Long may it continue. Well, I don't mean long may ill health continue, I mean favourable decisions.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Congratulations!
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
I got my DLA! Middle rate care, high rate mobility. :-D This is extra good because I think I'll need to get a taxi to work today as my left foot, hip and knee are conspiring to make life hell - bloody lefties.
The letter doesn't mention anything about backpayments, but I am due a fair bit. Any ideas how that'll work?
Congratulations.
That's lucky, considering mobility's being moved to 20 metres
equationgirl
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Well done, really pleased for you
How long is a piece of string? It can be anything between a few weeks after the initial decision was reached and (potentially) a few years.
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wobbly
as often as they want to tbh.
you should have an entitlement there to a home assessment, at least make them come to you and do it in the less stressful situation of your own home
Bakunin
I am Noodle's bitch.
You can also request that an assessment be recorded.
I am waiting to go to tribunal on their original decision of WRAG, in the meantime I filled in the ESA50 renewal form and returned it in July, I phoned in September my form was received but ATOS couldn't tell me any more. Since then I filled in the form for means tested ESA as my original ESA was for 12 months and runs out on the 21st November, the DWP phoned me on Friday to say they had dealt with it, "did I know I would loose the amount of my pension"a letter was being sent out, I do know that, that is why I am appealing their orignal decision as I feel I should have made support group. I had expected to get the letter today, it hasn't come, no doubt tomorrow. The stress of all this is just about unbearable, my mental health is deteriorating and my physical condition is no easier to cope with than it was at the beginning. Chronic pain is a bitch, chronic pain and anxiety is too difficult.
equationgirl
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Sorry to hear this Celt. Hang in there if you can x
They must have heard me, I've got my tribunal date, 29th November.
I am pleased to have it so soon, although it gives me very short time to gather extra evidence, my advocate has been really unwell with serious physical health problems, he had returned to work this week and I have an appointment with him on Tuesday to go through the appeal papers, I asked him if he felt this would add further stress to his health and he said his brain needs occupying, he hasn't always been the best at keeping appointments and promises, but he has stood by me and he is what I have.
I need to get this tribunal won, but life doesn't always work that way and I need to know how the future will be.
I have a lot to think about.
Good luck, Celt!
equationgirl
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Does anyone know if tribunals can offer anything to help people with anxiety having to attend a hearing?
Can you change your mind and ask to be heard in absence (even though that's not going to help, I realise).
Do tribunals sometimes decide ahead of time if they think there's enough evidence to do away with a hearing?
Can you change your mind and ask to be heard in absence (even though that's not going to help, I realise).
Do tribunals sometimes decide ahead of time if they think there's enough evidence to do away with a hearing?
I think that Tribunal only comes after appeall, and for me they said there was not enough evidence atwha appeal, so I am trying to get more evidence, I'm guessing you know that it would be better to be present at Trubunal as the panel may want to ask you questions.
I think what you refer to should be recognised after http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/may/22/fitness-work-tests-mental-health-unfair
Do you have anyone who supports you that can go with you? If you don't (I apologise if this is obvious from previous posting) is it worh approaching MIND and seeing if they have any support available? I don't think they can decide prior to the tribunal as they only have the paperwork 7 days prior to the tribunal.
Most people fail on appeal: it's just another jobcentre decision maker.
Attendance is of course preferable, but for someone with chronic anxiety this is not easy. Besides I can't help thinking Dominic Littlewood is going to turn up and put me on BBC as a Scrounger and not a Saint somehow (yes it's ridiculous, mental health problems do that to you).
I dopn't have anyone that can attend with me and as a result can't help thinking that, as with ATOS, if you turn up for your appointment, you've already failed. MIND doesn't operate locally. There is no support at all for mental health except in severe cases or if you want a course of CBT.
I'm dreading it really.
Awesome Wells do you have a date for the tribunal? What is the tribunal for? What decision have they made and what are you hoping the tribunal outcome will be?
I suffer from anxiety and depression myself and I do understand how daunting it all is, if as you say you have no support share it with Urban and see if we can support you. I see your a longtime urbanite and like me have a lowish postcount, I looked to see if you had talked about your benefits situation and I don't think you have. This thread has offered others help in the past, it has gone a little quiet, but there is a lot of urban experience here.
I suffer from anxiety and depression myself and I do understand how daunting it all is, if as you say you have no support share it with Urban and see if we can support you. I see your a longtime urbanite and like me have a lowish postcount, I looked to see if you had talked about your benefits situation and I don't think you have. This thread has offered others help in the past, it has gone a little quiet, but there is a lot of urban experience here.
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wobbly
There's also the possibility if you give a general area where you are based, then someone might know of support that might be available?
if you contact the tribunal service and ask what adjustments they can make for someone with severe anxiety?
is your gp supportive? would they be able to offer any advice/support/medication for the process?
if you contact the tribunal service and ask what adjustments they can make for someone with severe anxiety?
is your gp supportive? would they be able to offer any advice/support/medication for the process?
I'm thinking about asking them that. I just spoke to my CAB advisor but she didn't know of anything. Mental health support locally isn't great to say the least. The only advocacy service is miles away (and the buses are astronomically dear) and not particularly good (I went once and wasn't impressed by the racism on display - not to me, but jokes about pigs heads and mosques for some reason as someone brought in a birthday cake in the shape of pepper pig). I'm a bit funny about mentioning where i live online so i won't for now.
Dealing with the GP is a whole post in itself. They are helpful - in their own way, but they massively and at times wilfully do not understand the system or what is going on. At all. It's also extremely hard to see a regular GP due to changes in the organisation of the surgery. It's really badly run. My GP takes the view that all work is resotarative and healing and doesn't really grasp just how difficult the DWP make things through the Work Programme (which I'm on) and signing on.
purenarcotic
Conveniently Pocket Sized
Tribunals do tend to try to accommodate as much as possible, I would speak to them and see what they can do. Unlike Atos they aren't there to deliberately trip you up so if there is something they can do they will try.
FWIW you can have a person at the appeals tribunal with you for moral support (friend, partner, carer, advocate, or support worker) in addition to the person representing you there. It's similar to allowing a blind person to bring their guide dog.
If you'd rather not say on urban where you live, the alternative is to put a few keywords for the type of support or help you need into google, along with your county, borough, or town/village. It's a long trawl for your fingers, but it can be done, if there's anything out there. My apologies in advance if you've already done that and drawn a blank.
If you'd rather not say on urban where you live, the alternative is to put a few keywords for the type of support or help you need into google, along with your county, borough, or town/village. It's a long trawl for your fingers, but it can be done, if there's anything out there. My apologies in advance if you've already done that and drawn a blank.
purenarcotic
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Also, if it would help, ask if you can see the room / building etc before your tribunal date. That shouldn't be too difficult to arrange and then the buildings and people won't be so unfamiliar to you.
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