Incapacity Assessment

freebie_junkie

camforuman wrote:

Well probably I feel that even saying you have a computer will go against anyone in assessement for incapacity benefit. Having a computer in their eyes may come across as you are "with it" and not as bad as you are making out

i got mine from the DSA, for one of my meny conditions! :rotfl:

freebie_junkie

Miroslav wrote:

I've seen this new Labour thing on the news!!!! :mad:

It's only going to make people worse making them ill again

absolutely! anyone with an anexiety related condition will worry themselves iller over it. :mad:

Miroslav

I had to go shopping last night, I was out of everything, and after saving £131 on my gas bill, I thought with some of the money, I'd buy a new coat and some new clothes (I never buy myself half decent clothes) but I felt guilty because for once I was enjoying myself and was out of my flat, when I usually spend 6 days a week without going out.

Knowing my luck I was being watched, and will be punished for needing food and clothes and smiling.

Crazy. Maybe they should focus on all those they give extra benefits too, to feed their drug habits, rather than we normal folk who really do want to get better.

freebie_junkie

definately! its awful. i go to uni part time, 1 day a week, i really couldnt handle any more but i always think that they think 'if you can do one, you can do all five days you lazy lying git!'

HOLsale

freebie_junkie wrote:

some of the things they do are truly awful :mad:

they really are meddling with peoples minds and lives

and now with thsi new labour thing theyre gonna be even more like coppers trying to get you off to work even if youre not mentally fit, im much better now than i used to be but im not all there yet and if i had to go back to a full-time job right now 6 months down the line id be back in hospital! :mad:

i've been through this 'game' about 4 years ago as i was suffering horribly from symphasis pubis dysfunction and couldn't even get downstairs to the supermarket i could see from my window. i could hardly walk and taking care of my new baby was nigh on impossible by myself

my mistake was talking about all the things i couldn't do and mentioning dd. they said that i could take care of myself but not her so tough!

well i should have appealed becasue all the things i couldn't do for her i couldn't do for myself, hell, i couldn't even get into the bathtub by myself. couldn't carry any kind of weight so if i'd mentioned i couldn't carry a bag of groceries it would have been ok but because i mentioned i couldn't carry my daugther it wasn't :mad: i was a new mother, what the hell else would i have had on my mind?

i should have appealed, i likely would have won as my physiotherapist and doctor both were encouraging me to get help and i had then met my friend that worked for dla so could have fielded the questions better but i couldn't cope mentally

i'm bipolar and that makes dealing with any of this sort of thing nigh on impossible most times. i have been seeing a shrink for months hoping that he'll help me out and suggest applying for incapacity benefit but he's not biting. we're suffering horribly now because i'm at a stage where i can't work mentally outside the home, tax credits have us backed up against a wall so we're no longer getting childcare element anyway and because she's home with me so much i can't get much work done in the home either

top that off with my bipolar mom that i fled from years ago finding me, threatening my kids and being absolutely totally out of her mind and i do mean that literally as well as mounting financial problems well, not a good combo... part of me despeartely wants to apply for dla or incapcity but i don't think i could face it as i'm certaint they'll knock me back... the mental illnesses are probably the hardest cases to win, i've even been diagnosed for 10 years but i'm sure they'd find a way to screw me :mad:

HOLsale

freebie_junkie wrote:

definately! its awful. i go to uni part time, 1 day a week, i really couldnt handle any more but i always think that they think 'if you can do one, you can do all five days you lazy lying git!'

i think they just don't understand what it's like to live with mental illness

it's like your brain is saying yes yes yes to a lot of things but then something in your chest caves in, you can't breathe and you almost can't move either

then you start hiding from stuff and the smallest thing sets you into a deep depression. i spend the majority of my time honestly feeling like i was never meant to be happy

i CAN do a fair amount of things when i'm in a manic state but being manic isn't really so good, you do stupid rash stuff that far outweighs the benefits. if they had any clue what it was like to live inside my brain they'd never think of us like that again...sadly i can't let them 'try it on for size'

ianian99

I think the reason that the interviewers seem to be C**** is because they are getting blagged day in and day out by people that are quite fit to work. I think that the new labour plans are a great idea IF it managed to get all the blaggers off the sick but i think all it will do is get the genuine sick people off benefits as these are the people that are less likely to blag them (and I include staying up all night and not eating etc blagging)
Anyway what percentage of the people claiming sick benefit REALLY CANT work? Very small percentage I would say.
Also if people can manage to sit on their pc all day posting messages and looking for bargains and then heading round boots etc for the double points in my opinion are fit for work, even work from home.
put it this way if their benefits stopped what would they do? They'd have to find work wouldn't they?

intel

If you are genuinely ill you have nothing to worry about.. Hope it goes OK.

CIS

The problem with the new system is they're going to target doctors handing out sick notes, how far will this go ?, will it just end at cutting down on long term sick notes or continue on to short term ?

freebie_junkie

ianian99 wrote:

I think the reason that the interviewers seem to be C**** is because they are getting blagged day in and day out by people that are quite fit to work. I think that the new labour plans are a great idea IF it managed to get all the blaggers off the sick but i think all it will do is get the genuine sick people off benefits as these are the people that are less likely to blag them (and I include staying up all night and not eating etc blagging)
Anyway what percentage of the people claiming sick benefit REALLY CANT work? Very small percentage I would say.
Also if people can manage to sit on their pc all day posting messages and looking for bargains and then heading round boots etc for the double points in my opinion are fit for work, even work from home.
put it this way if their benefits stopped what would they do? They'd have to find work wouldn't they?

thyed end up putting unfit people on JSA sendign them off to interviews when they have no chance of getting a job "yeh by teh way i have hygiene OCD sdo cant clean up anything and dont really want to touch much, is that ok?" so theyll jsut be on JSA for life instead!