Job Centre

cloud9

Saw my job centre adviser today. He's a lovely bloke but his job is to help me back to work. He admitted to me today that he knows he's wasting my time, (and his), but to ensure I keep getting ESA he has to do it. Finally I've been told I don't have to send sick notes every 6 weeks. And, next time he's going to phone me to check how I am. I struggled to get in there today and so he's told them that I've proved beyond doubt, that I'm not just a lazy scrounger. There really are some decent and sensible DWP people out there, but, I think you have to be quite lucky to find them!

valval

you can not blame them with some of the people they have to deal with they must become jaded quite quickly so glad you got a good one val

cloud9

Oh I agree. He said it was a treat for him to see someone like me! XX

CJHunter

So glad you have a good job centre worker. I had a good one too , which goes to show they are not all jobs worth.

I was told i was doing all i could and they could not help me any further so decided i didnt need to see them anymore, but it wouldnt effect esa. It hasnt.

Weldone for getting to appointment and getting him to understand.

Take care

cloud9

Thankyou x

stickywicket

Ah that's good. A heart-warming tale. Yes, it does restore one's faith in humanity and I'm so pleased you got him, Sue. Common sense is not dead.

frogmorton

Cloud9

FINALLY some good news!!

Thank you so much for the update and l agree with the others a lovely chap

Love

toni xx

elnafinn

cloud9 wrote:

Saw my job centre adviser today. He's a lovely bloke but his job is to help me back to work. He admitted to me today that he knows he's wasting my time, (and his), but to ensure I keep getting ESA he has to do it. Finally I've been told I don't have to send sick notes every 6 weeks. And, next time he's going to phone me to check how I am. I struggled to get in there today and so he's told them that I've proved beyond doubt, that I'm not just a lazy scrounger. There really are some decent and sensible DWP people out there, but, I think you have to be quite lucky to find them!

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cloud9

Thankyou, yeah I thought so too. x

traluvie

Glad to hear, if only they were all like that..

One less thing for you to worry about though..

xx

bubbles

That is so good to hear, I know many of us have had our "issues" with those who work for the DWP, but, having had only one experience at a Job Centre Plus, some years back, I can honestly say I would not have had their jobs for love nor money. There were two security personnel, people being ejected from the building, foul mouthed people and in the middle of it all, little old me, thinking get me out of here.

Because we were so polite and respectable, the DWP lady was shocked.

julie47

Cloud I am pleased for you

Juliepf x

BikerAngel

I had a good one at my JC and she was really helpfull but I got my ESA refused at the end of the 6wk period and had to appeal it and she could not understand why and was a bit angry to think I had but at the tribunal I won my case so had not to go back to there but she also helped me with getting on a course for the condition management with them it was good and really helped me and she pushed me to go for DLA too. She said she had one guy who got highest DLA yet was also refused ESA and had to appeal and she said she never understood why as it did not make sense. Some of them are really good and do care about you and to others it's just a job.
So glad you got a good one too.

woodbon

Hi, Glad you've had such a positive experience. I expect that their are quite a few Jobcentre employees who are having a really hard time as they don't like the new set up anymore than we do - I spoke to someone on the phone at my local jobcentre the other day and he said that its so difficult now and the rules are getting hard for everyone to follow. He gave me some advice about what I need to send.
Glad you had one of the Good one's.
Love Sue

soraya

Hi how refreshing to be treated so nicely and above all being believed, my experience came from a new doc i saw when i first moved to a new village she would only give me sick notes for two weeks and had me going up and back to the docs every week, i got the impression she thought i was pretending and although her attitude changed when my tests came back, i took it on myself to see another doc there and he has been so fantastic and at the moment i get three monthly sick notes, i do feel i dont know if i can physically manage another fulltime job due to my arthur and its unpredictable days and really not sure how i go about this, i know like you say there are people out there that are really screwing the system and make it bad for people like us with genuine disability, but again so nice to hear something so positive well done you hugs xxx

cloud9

Thankyou so much xx