Incapacity Assessment

hjb123

Good luck with the assessment.

Try and find someone to take with you, it would be alot better if you do, I never took anyone with me to mine, and regretted it - sorry!

Dont make yourself look clean and presentable - it will count against you!

They also observe you as you as you leave the centre aswell - you have been warned!!

Miroslav

freebie_junkie wrote:

poor love, i hate it that the most vounerable poeple on benifits have to jump through the most hoops

Crazy thing is, I have my job centre's disabled advisor backing me all the way, but it seems it will count as nothing.

Miroslav

hjb123 wrote:

Good luck with the assessment.

Try and find someone to take with you, it would be alot better if you do, I never took anyone with me to mine, and regretted it - sorry!

Dont make yourself look clean and presentable - it will count against you!

They also observe you as you as you leave the centre aswell - you have been warned!!

I really have no-one to go with me

I don't drink, but would it help if I had alcohol on my breath I will remember to be unshaved!

As I leave the centre.....or do I have to be wary of them following me for weeks after

hjb123

Miroslav wrote:

I don't drink, but would it help if I had alcohol on my breath I will remember to be unshaved!

As I leave the centre.....or do I have to be wary of them following me for weeks after

I only wish that I had thought of that and I might have got passed!

Ted_Hutchinson

Miroslav wrote:

I really have no-one to go with me

I don't drink, but would it help if I had alcohol on my breath I will remember to be unshaved!

As I leave the centre.....or do I have to be wary of them following me for weeks after

I think the closer you stick to the truth of your condition the less likely you will appear to thought to be overstating your case. That is not to imply you should understate it or make light of your difficulties.
Certainly you must assume you are observed approaching and leaving the building as well as while you are in it.

You may be asked how you travelled and this would be an opportunity to detail your mobility problems. If you simply say you came by train, and if the assessor knows the station is half a mile away and involves a steep climb to the office, unless you enlighten him as to the way you solved this problem or the difficulty it caused you, the assumption could be that you have no problem walking 1/2ml uphill. It is the amount of detail you provide to support your answers that enables the descriptor statements to be ticked off.

I don't think you have to worry about being watched later on, though obviously if immediately the assessment were over you behaved in a way which indicated your previous answers were fabricated this would go against you.

But I'm sure it's only where claims are known to be fraudulent that the DWP fraud dept start videoing claimants. The staff themselves know that spot checks on IB claimants in unannounced home visits reveal a compliance rate of over 98% .It's only the politicians and right wing bigots who don't realise that with an aging population their will be more people in the last years of their working lives and that this is the age group that produces the highest percentage of IB claims. The fact that these are claimants and NOT BENEFICIARIES is a point that our lazy and ignorant and biased reporters never mention. There are more people than ever CLAIMING IB, AWARDED IB but not PAID it. If the statistics of those who had paid the NI stamps all their lives only to find when they have to retire early on ill health grounds they get nothing at all, were set beside the IB totals the public would see the LIES that this administration continues to foist on the media.

Miroslav

hjb123 wrote:

I only wish that I had thought of that and I might have got passed!

Next time

Miroslav

Ted_Hutchinson wrote:

I think the closer you stick to the truth of your condition the less likely you will appear to thought to be overstating your case. That is not to imply you should understate it or make light of your difficulties.
Certainly you must assume you are observed approaching and leaving the building as well as while you are in it.

You may be asked how you travelled and this would be an opportunity to detail your mobility problems. If you simply say you came by train, and if the assessor knows the station is half a mile away and involves a steep climb to the office, unless you enlighten him as to the way you solved this problem or the difficulty it caused you, the assumption could be that you have no problem walking 1/2ml uphill. It is the amount of detail you provide to support your answers that enables the descriptor statements to be ticked off.

I don't think you have to worry about being watched later on, though obviously if immediately the assessment were over you behaved in a way which indicated your previous answers were fabricated this would go against you.

But I'm sure it's only where claims are known to be fraudulent that the DWP fraud dept start videoing claimants. The staff themselves know that spot checks on IB claimants in unannounced home visits reveal a compliance rate of over 98% .It's only the politicians and right wing bigots who don't realise that with an aging population their will be more people in the last years of their working lives and that this is the age group that produces the highest percentage of IB claims. The fact that these are claimants and NOT BENEFICIARIES is a point that our lazy and ignorant and biased reporters never mention. There are more people than ever CLAIMING IB, AWARDED IB but not PAID it. If the statistics of those who had paid the NI stamps all their lives only to find when they have to retire early on ill health grounds they get nothing at all, were set beside the IB totals the public would see the LIES that this administration continues to foist on the media.

Well, just by being normal I think I look the part. I'm not exactly suit and slicked back hair, or smiling and chirpy, at the best of times.

Luckily, that answer is walked, it's 2 minutes from my home. It's not even a physical reason I am off, but mental. Looking at the test, I should get over 20 points on the mental side alone.

I know what you say about awarded and claiming IB, I think that is me, because I certainly get no extra money for it.

I just wish they would concentrate on the real con artists. My Doctor, Job Centre advisor, Condition Management advisor, CPN and other health specialists know i'm for real, it's just disappointing someone who i'll likely never meet again, makes a decision based on one appointment.

freebie_junkie

just talk about your condition on the worst possible day that it could be if its changeable.

bergy2

I have taken a few people to these and generally they go well but you have to volunteer information as well

If it's basis is on mental health grounds go in there describing your worst day of the week not your best as that usually helps - peopler sometimes feel they are ok that day but this is about how you do each week

Things like if you lost a job through struggling often get overlooked but add 2 points towards 15

and as you looki through the points system jot stuff down with the points next to it and be prepared with it making sure every thing on that list is stated during that interview

All the best

Miroslav

freebie_junkie wrote:

just talk about your condition on the worst possible day that it could be if its changeable.

Right now every day is a bad day

I realy don't have the motivation to take the Xmas decs down