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iona, that's horrible. I mean it's bad in all sort of ways. It beats me why they can't admit to post sometimes going astray, and if they still use an address you haven't lived at for years, I'm not surprised there's a muddle but it's their fault.

As for the nurse getting bossy and telling you what to do - hell, did she imagine you ought to be all calm and settled. even so, raising her voice and yapping at you was never going to help. What a bloody shower. :(
 
Pickman's model said:
you were concentrating on drawing blood from the wrong body :(

i wonder, did you get any of this 'it's not on our system' nonsense in writing? have you considered making a complaint? you might find just writing it out carthartick.
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I couldn't really concentrate on anything other than trying to answer her questions and get out of there without getting nicked for assault. I'll think about complaining but tbh I don't think it'll do anything.
 
I had to go to East fucking Croydon too and there's only one train back every hour. So obviously I got to the station 55 minutes before the next train, which is now delayed :mad:
 
In a fair world, luck wouldn't come into it. In a fair world, tomorrow's tribunal wouldn't be faced unrepresented because every source of representation for these has become overstretched and underfunded. This is not a fair world, and it's not just about one case, this shouldn't be happening to anyone else either.

PIP appeal Tribunal Day -1, Fortuna be kind.
 
I finally got my decision on PIP, I got standard rate care and low(standard?) rate mobility, I'm going to accept this, I think its fair. I need to get in touch with motability and see what happens to my adapted car? I am going to have to buy a car, I'm hoping there is some way I can buy this car.
 
spirals said:
Hope it goes ok Greebo & ViolentPanda
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So do we!!! :D

It's been hilarious, reading through the report by the "healthcare professional". He's mangled what I've told him, made assumptions, quantified his asking me to recall three items after 2 minutes, as a "memory test", and in one case, derived a whole page of data from 2 minutes of strength testing my limbs.

This despite me submitting to them the results of my TWO 2.5hr-long sets of memory tests conducted by the Memory Clinic at St. Thomas's Hosp, and the professional opinions of a consultant neuro-psychiatrist and a consultant neuro-psychologist, and despite the fact that a couple of weeks after the Atos exam, I had an assessment by a Consultant Physiotherapist that did the same strength tests, but took 20 minutes to do them, and found markedly different results from the Atos monkey. :)
 
ViolentPanda said:
quantified his asking me to recall three items after 2 minutes, as a "memory test",
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They asked me this. I got confused and gave the last item first then couldn't work out what came after that. :D

and in one case, derived a whole page of data from 2 minutes of strength testing my limbs
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When she tested my strength she placed her hand on my right shin and told me to lift my leg up. I queried the 'up' bit several times before extending my lower leg as I assumed that was what she meant. Perhaps I should have lifted my leg up and kneed her in the face. :eek: :D


Got a dreaded brown envelope yesterday, when I picked up the courage to open it it was form ESA not PIP to say 'due to a change in circumstances my ESA would be staying the same.' :facepalm:
 
The good wishes and crossed fingers have obviously worked, you beautiful people!

I just had a call from the Tribunal Service, informing me that due to massive backlogs, some cases where a hearing was requested, have been decided "on the papers". Apparently the tribunal decided that the original decision and the Mandatory Reconsideration were unfair, and that I should receive the Enhanced rate for Daily Living, as well as for Mobility! We don't have to attend this afternoon!

Being almost pathologically paranoid where the DWP is concerned (and because I've heard of the DWP giving people misleading information regarding their tribunal), I phoned them back and asked a different person to check my case, giving them my case number, rather than my personal details. The information was confirmed - that my case had been decided in my favour, that my award was now Enhanced/Enhanced, and that I would be backpaid to reflect this (about £500, I think).

What can I say, but that I think this bears out what I've been saying for years - if it's at all possible to appeal, then do so!!!
 
ViolentPanda said:
The good wishes and crossed fingers have obviously worked, you beautiful people!

I just had a call from the Tribunal Service, informing me that due to massive backlogs, some cases where a hearing was requested, have been decided "on the papers". Apparently the tribunal decided that the original decision and the Mandatory Reconsideration were unfair, and that I should receive the Enhanced rate for Daily Living, as well as for Mobility! We don't have to attend this afternoon!

Being almost pathologically paranoid where the DWP is concerned (and because I've heard of the DWP giving people misleading information regarding their tribunal), I phoned them back and asked a different person to check my case, giving them my case number, rather than my personal details. The information was confirmed - that my case had been decided in my favour, that my award was now Enhanced/Enhanced, and that I would be backpaid to reflect this (about £500, I think).

What can I say, but that I think this bears out what I've been saying for years - if it's at all possible to appeal, then do so!!!
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Congratulations. Really pleased for you. x
 
Congratulations ViolentPanda and Greebo! but yes Greebo, it is so annoying that, even taking into account the disgusting way they've changed the goalposts for PIP to exclude lots of people who have been claiming DLA, they aren't making the correct decisions with the new criteria in the first place in so many cases :mad: - almost like they're hoping disabled people, their carers, and their families will just give up and go without
 
Greebo said:
iona VP would also be very happy to help, although not today as he's sleeping off the shock right now.

It's not just about the money, which matters when on a tight budget. It's about sending a message that claimants are to be helped, not screwed over.
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Couldn't agree more. Those who most need help and support should not be abandoned to the wolves like the DWP and ATOS are keen to do. The cockweaselly arsetrumpets that they are.
 
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