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haagan
haagan Non-active member Posts: 84
edited 16. Nov 2009, 11:00 in Living with Arthritis archive
Hi everybody
I had my ESA Tribunal today and I won!!!
I can't believe it, after all the grief the system had added to an already stressful time, having your carefully filled in form ignored, a medical which when written up had major errors, I'm in a state of shock.
I had visited my MP to complain about the hoops you have jump through to put in a claim and he wants to hear my outcome as he is going to look into why so many new claimants are being declined and being told that they are fit for work when they clearly aren't.
Good luck to everyone else fighting with the system, we have to make them change it by refusing to go quietly but kick up a fuss and take it all the way.
I suppose it is too much to hope it is back-dated, but an extra £25 a week will make a big difference. :D Fay

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  • tkachev
    tkachev Non-active member Posts: 8,332
    edited 30. Nov -0001, 00:00
    Haagan that is flippin fantastic!
    Elizabeth


    A big collective sigh of relief.
    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 Non-active member Posts: 11,333
    edited 30. Nov -0001, 00:00
    Hi Fay,

    Well done! Its so wrong you had to fight for it but good on you for doing so and winning. As Elizabeth said we can all have a big sigh of relief. Take care Cris
  • sharmaine
    sharmaine Non-active member Posts: 1,638
    edited 30. Nov -0001, 00:00
    Hi

    Great news for you! Lots of folks are having trouble with their claims - sounds as if the ESA people don't know they a.se from their elbow!

    Sharmaine
  • woodbon
    woodbon Non-active member Posts: 4,969
    edited 30. Nov -0001, 00:00
    Hello I'm so pleased for you, but the worry and distress they have caused you is horrible. I'm in the process of filling in my esa form, well, all I seem to be doing is reading it, feeling fed up and getting upset, so I put it away again! Its good to know that people actually do end up getting it in the end, you begin to feel its all one big con and why bother to fill the wretched thing in! :( I will make a start but what a lot of time we all waste going over so many things again and again. What will you do with all that money? :lol:
    Sorry to moan on, its all I'm doing these days, I get sick of myself! :lol: Love Sue
  • c4thyg
    c4thyg Non-active member Posts: 542
    edited 30. Nov -0001, 00:00
    That's great news. Shame you had such a fight to get it though. Fantastic that your MP has taken interest. Go get um!
  • ritwren
    ritwren Non-active member Posts: 928
    edited 30. Nov -0001, 00:00
    I'm absolutely delighted for you. :D
    rita
  • jordan7j
    jordan7j Bots Posts: 346
    edited 30. Nov -0001, 00:00
    Fay, so pleased for you!!! about time they did something right
    :D
  • elnafinn
    elnafinn Member Posts: 7,412
    edited 30. Nov -0001, 00:00
    Hi Fay

    I am sooooooooo pleased for you. Good to hear that your MP is sympathetic and keen to help genuine claimants. I do hope that payment is back-dated for you - should be.

    Luv
    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.
  • haagan
    haagan Non-active member Posts: 84
    edited 30. Nov -0001, 00:00
    Hi Everybody
    Thanks for your lovely messages, I still keep looking at paper with win written on it. first thing I did when I got up in case I'd dreamed it.
    Everyone who I showed the ESA medical form to couldn't see how it was relevant to arthur as he changes from day to day.
    Also if you have problems with your hands get someone else to fill form in for you as if you struggle to do it as I foolishly did it, means you have no problem even if you put that filling in form had caused you pain and had taken a long time to do it.
    Have a good day and thanks for being there this website is a life-line Fay :D
  • kathbee
    kathbee Non-active member Posts: 934
    edited 30. Nov -0001, 00:00
    Well done Fay, glad to hear you won.

    Getting your MP on your side is a good one too.

    Love Kath
  • suncatcher
    suncatcher Non-active member Posts: 2,174
    edited 30. Nov -0001, 00:00
    oh this is good news i hope i get good news also thanksd for sharing this from joanne :D
    Joanne
  • penfactor
    penfactor Non-active member Posts: 366
    edited 30. Nov -0001, 00:00
    Wow! Well done, Fay - that is brilliant! You are definitely an inspiration to a few of us at the moment. I'm just at the medical form stage at the mo - will let you know how that goes. It is not just about extra cash more about validation of capability & it also means you get more help finding suitable work too.
    love Pennie x
  • eileenc
    eileenc Bots Posts: 118
    edited 30. Nov -0001, 00:00
    Congratulations - it must have been very stressfull to have had to go through all that when all you were doing was claiming something you were entitled to - what a relief it's over now.
    I'm still at the medical form filling in part too - and i've got as far as looking at it, putting it in a drawer, looking at it, putting it in a cupboard, looking at it, putting it on a unit......you get the idea - I will have to fill it in next week though to make sure I get the Dec 10th deadline that they have given on it........and then onto a medical I suppose - ah well, more hoops to jump through (if only - not with my legs/ankles/hips!)
    You are a definate inspiration to all of us who are still wading through the system.
    Hugs all round
    Eileen x
  • haagan
    haagan Non-active member Posts: 84
    edited 30. Nov -0001, 00:00
    Hi everybody
    Thanks again for your support I'm glad I could bring some good news to the site for once.
    To everybody struggling with THE FORM I spent nearly 3 weeks on it trying to work out what they were asking as questions are not clear, so going for help is a good idea but the form should be user friendly.
    I am a ex RN used to filling forms in but this one is beyond a joke.
    I was asked at Tribunal if I had applied for DLA, I said no. To be honest the thought of another battle has no appeal.
    Good luck and thanks for being there.
    Hoping to get new computer with voice software, no more one finger typing on a good day, if they backdate payment computer shops here I come. Fay

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