ATOS & DWP...ESA

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  • elnafinn
    elnafinn Member Posts: 7,412
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    I am so happy for you, Iris. That is such tremenduously great news. :D:D

    It is very unfortunate that things did not go smoothly for you as they most definitely should have done, along with so many other people, but with your grit and determination to receive fairness, you will now receive it. :D

    MP's can come up trumps then? :D:lol:

    Now you will be able to concentrate so much more on getting yourself back to normal.

    Love
    Elna x
    The happiest people don't have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything.

    If you can lay down at night knowing in your heart that you made someone's day just a little bit better, you know you had a good day.
  • clairc
    clairc Member Posts: 90
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    I'm so glad you're getting this sorted! If only people would apply a little common sense none of this would ever have been an issue.

    Clair
  • dorcas
    dorcas Member Posts: 3,516
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Thank you Barabara, DD, Ironic, Dippy, Salamander, Toni, Elaine & Sol, Elna and Clair. :D

    It was nice to share some good news for a change :wink:

    No guarantees of a quick or positive outcome but it feels so good to have someone else take this on for me.

    It was this MP's private member's Bill that kick started the whole Disability Discrimination Act so he is always very approachable in relation to disability issues and has helped me in the past :D

    thanks again everyone, I'll let you know if/ when I hear anything.

    Iris xxx
  • barbara12
    barbara12 Member Posts: 21,281
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Hi Iris
    Just a thought , my MP is Andy Burnham, wonder if I was in the same situation ,he would come and visit me :)
    You never know
    Take care, bet you sleep a little better tonight
    Love
    Barbara xx
    Love
    Barbara
  • cebeem
    cebeem Bots Posts: 472
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Good to hear your news Iris.....he sounds like an ok kinda guy!
    For all the help you have given others here you deserve the burden to be taken on by someone of such office. Well done you are an ambassador for us all!...Hope it continues for you!

    *CB*
  • tkachev
    tkachev Member Posts: 8,332
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Hi Iris,

    am very pleased for you too,


    Elizabeth
    Never be bullied into silence.
    Never allow yourself to be made a victim.
    Accept no ones definition of your life

    Define yourself........

    Harvey Fierstein
  • skezier
    skezier Member Posts: 11,333
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Hi Iris,

    I am so pleased that you have all that weight taken off your shoulders and he will help! Its got to make them realise how bad this present system is hasn't it.

    Hey he had done his homework and so wish all the mps were as good.

    Leaving you a ((((( ))))) and a huge bucket of Hope... its has to be a big bucket as well :wink: and some very nice diet biccie..... not up to my normal spec ?! :lol: Cris xx
  • woodbon
    woodbon Member Posts: 4,969
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Hi, I'm so glad for you. Love Sue
  • dreamdaisy
    dreamdaisy Member Posts: 31,520
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Bumped up for canarybird.
    Have you got the despatches? No, I always walk like this. Eddie Braben
  • penfactor
    penfactor Member Posts: 366
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    & bumped up again by me! Pennie X
  • marion1952
    marion1952 Member Posts: 963
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Iris

    I'm so sorry- I seem to have missed this thread completely until just now!!

    The whole thing is absolutely ludicrous .. I'm so pleased your MP is taking it on board for you..

    Marion
  • dorcas
    dorcas Member Posts: 3,516
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Hi everyone :D

    all this 'bumping up' has left me feeling quite dizzy! ha ha! :lol::lol:

    thanks again for support and good wishes everyone...Marion too!

    The MP's PA emailed me yesterday to say the letters have gone off 'special messenger' whatever that is. :!: so the clock starts ticking as soon as the local dwp office receive it...they have 48hrs to reconsider the decision...and it has to be reconsidered by a different dwp officer.

    I'm not expecting that they will change their decision... that would be too easy! and we all know that we have to fight tooth and nail through the long process of appeal to stand a chance of overturning it!

    I guess dwp'll write back to my MP as he's now representing me. I'll let you know as soon as I hear anything....

    Iris xxx

    ps... has anyone/ know of anyone with arther who's been put into the 'Support Group'?... :?
  • penfactor
    penfactor Member Posts: 366
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    We will all have our fingers crossed for you, Iris. Your MP sounds great & it's really interesting to hear about the members bill regarding the DDA. So many companies, inc my last, seem to duck under the net on this issue however big they are & get away with it.
    Sorry, I can't answer your post script: the only person I know in the support group had an awful bike accident a few years ago & is bedridden but I also know that even he has had to fight tooth & nail for his entitlement! Ridiculous isn't it?
    love Pennie X
  • dorcas
    dorcas Member Posts: 3,516
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    penfactor wrote:
    the only person I know in the support group had an awful bike accident a few years ago & is bedridden but I also know that even he has had to fight tooth & nail for his entitlement! Ridiculous isn't it?
    love Pennie X

    That is absolutely shocking :shock: :shock:

    what a system :roll:

    do you know... I'm really surprised there hasn't been a bigger outcry from the public about this fiasco of a 'benefits' system .... especially in relation to ESA and DLA :?

    Nor have I seen a demonstration by any group .... there are 10million people in the UK suffering from arthritis and 12,000 children......imagine what would happen if we all took to the streets with banners!... or every adult and parent of a child with arthritis lobbied their MPs?... that would send a clear message to the government.

    It would be nice to think that the current WCA consultation will lead to restructuring and a fairer system of assessment..... we'll see..

    Iris x
  • frogmorton
    frogmorton Member Posts: 30,087
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Iris....


    is it our birthday??...


    just that you had the bumps a lot lately :wink:
  • dorcas
    dorcas Member Posts: 3,516
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    No Toni... :lol::lol::lol::lol:

    but now you mention it.....it is my unbirthday!
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    where's my presents.. :shock: :lol::lol:

    Iris xxx
  • penfactor
    penfactor Member Posts: 366
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Hello there, just another quickie question!
    Iris, do you know whether or when they review your ESA claim once it has been accepted? Is it every six months or yearly or do they do it at all? Yet another question that is not explained on their leaflets!
    Maybe anyone else might know answer to this also.
    love Pennie X
  • dorcas
    dorcas Member Posts: 3,516
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Hi Pennie!

    You can be called for further ESA work capability assessment at any time.

    The reassessment will 'normally' be based on how long the medical assessor at your first/ most recent assessment decided you were likely to have a limited capability for work? For example, if it was recorded that an improvement could be expected within a year, the WCA will in all probability be repeated around that period of time.

    Not a very precise answer Pennie... a bit like the whole process!

    Suggest you phone DWP and ask if a date/ timescale for WCA re-assessment was recorded by the Assessor.... or you could ask the Pathways Adviser at your next interview.

    Iris xxx
  • woodbon
    woodbon Member Posts: 4,969
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    My Neice went straight into the support group. She has a degenerative disease of the brain, inherited from her mother. She worked until her employer could'nt cope with the safety issues around her case. She is much worse now, she can't eat unless the food is in special containers, she is in a wheel chair, she can't go outside the house unless someone is with her, even in her electric chair, as she could loose control of it. She can't write anymore and her vision is effected although she can still read. Mentally, she is not always able to remember or say what she means.

    I filled the form in for her and wondered if they would try and send for her. They didn't, they just got her social worker to visit and tell her not to worry she'd go into the special support group. Fantastic, but I would have liked to fight that!!! Don't feel sorry for her, shes a happy girl who still enjoys her disabled swimming on a Sunday and has so many friends, I can't keep track of them. Shes married happily, fills the house with friends, knows all the local gossip and is never happier than passing on stories, I get phone calls at all times to tell my that someone is leaving someone else !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  • penfactor
    penfactor Member Posts: 366
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Hi Iris
    How did your Pathways interview go? I am just about to leave for my third one. I may have missed you on a newer thread so will check too.
    love Pennie X
  • skezier
    skezier Member Posts: 11,333
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Hi Iris,

    If they dare say your fit for work I shall be up there with Miss L legs and her military regalia and give em what for!

    Its a joke and so wrong they are dong this to you.... Sorry the mother hen costume seems to have stuck on..... (((( )))) ands a blue egg xxx

    Oh and.....

    A very merry unbirthday to you, t you..... yep I do a half decent impersonation of the mad hatter when needed.... or spontaneous... which is kinda worrying :lol::lol::lol:
  • Wonkylegs
    Wonkylegs Member Posts: 3,504
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    penfactor wrote:
    Hi Iris
    How did your Pathways interview go? I am just about to leave for my third one. I may have missed you on a newer thread so will check too.
    love Pennie X


    Pennie ... there was another thread about the pathways interview, and I can't remember which one it was, but basically .... cutting a long story short ........ Iris hobbled to the inconveniently situated office for an early morning appointment on the Monday, having just had her knees aspirated and injected with steroids the previous friday, to find the office CLOSED and locked :shock:

    turns out her letter should have given a different venue, but someone 'forgot' to change the letter :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll:

    After 'words' with them over the phone Iris has her next date for in interview by phone .... so a small victory for her but she didn't need all that hassle :x :x :x
  • penfactor
    penfactor Member Posts: 366
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Thank you, Wonky
    That was terrible - I think I am really lucky with my advisor & job centre by the sounds of it. My first appointment was the week before my op & although the next one was due a month later he cancelled it for three months. He is really nice & understanding - he is putting me in touch now with a support centre who he said can help me find something suitable.
    I'm still dubious that anyone would want to take me on but trying to stay positive.
    love Pennie X
  • frogmorton
    frogmorton Member Posts: 30,087
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    bumped up to support aquaman
  • dorcas
    dorcas Member Posts: 3,516
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    .... well, I got a letter yesterday from DWP....

    and having 'reconsidered' their original decision...

    they've decided NOT to change it. :roll: :shock: :?

    SO, it looks like next stop is an Appeals Tribunal ...

    Iris x

    ps...BTW... I have my first 'Pathways' Interview since being placed in the ' Work Related Activity Group'..on Monday (by telephone).

    I wonder if having both knees aspirated and injected with steroids again will count as ' evidence' of getting myself motivated to get back to the workplace. :x :x

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