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  • cifpower
    cifpower Posts: 6,502 Forumite
    emweaver wrote: »
    I thought you only got exempt for a set period of time? so maybe you were exempt for a year and thats why you got another form as its been a year?
    There was no time period for the exemption given on the letter I received in September just a sentence saying "as long as I satisfy the conditions."
  • cifpower
    cifpower Posts: 6,502 Forumite
    scooby1001 wrote: »
    If you are exempt it is indefinatly(for as long as you still have the level of illness) so you should only have to fill in another IB50 if you have got better.
    Well I filled in the form exactly the same way as I did last year.

    I just don't know how I can be exempt in September but not exempt 8 months later.
  • NASA_2
    NASA_2 Posts: 5,571 Forumite
    The IB caseload is reducing now so maybe that is why they have more time to pick over current claims.
  • cifpower
    cifpower Posts: 6,502 Forumite
    ESA wrote: »
    The IB caseload is reducing now so maybe that is why they have more time to pick over current claims.
    Possibly. Just odd that when I rang the dept in BElfast the woman said I didn't need to send it in! Why bother sending it then?!?
  • NASA_2
    NASA_2 Posts: 5,571 Forumite
    cifpower wrote: »
    Possibly. Just odd that when I rang the dept in BElfast the woman said I didn't need to send it in! Why bother sending it then?!?
    Possibly system generated rather than someone making a point of sending it out.
  • cifpower
    cifpower Posts: 6,502 Forumite
    Well I'll see what the response is to this IB50
  • bdon
    bdon Posts: 57 Forumite
    oh dear, it's hardly spirit of the blitz is it!?

    ten pages of internet waffle about how to scam the system because your too weak to get on a bus. !!!!!!!
    I am not a financial advisor. Anything I post is basically just random stuff from my head. Digest it as you will. Being free of debt is good. Banks control us through debt. Caveat Emptor. Ignore anything I say. Oh and don't copy it either. Cheers. I'll have a Guinness extra cold.
  • emweaver
    emweaver Posts: 8,419 Forumite
    on my letter said i was exempt for a year
    Wins so far this year: Mum to be bath set, follow me Domino Dog, Vital baby feeding set, Spiderman goody bag, free pack of Kiplings cakes, £15 love to shop voucher, HTC Desire, Olive oil cooking spray, Original Source Strawberry Shower Gel, Garnier skin care hamper, Marc Jacobs fragrance.
  • scooby1001
    scooby1001 Posts: 295 Forumite
    bdon wrote: »
    oh dear, it's hardly spirit of the blitz is it!?

    ten pages of internet waffle about how to scam the system because your too weak to get on a bus. !!!!!!!

    What makes you think that this thread is about trying to scam the system. It is about people having problems with the IB/ESA system. Nobody said they want to scam anybody. If you don't have anything helpful to say don't bother replying.
  • Garry_Anderson
    Garry_Anderson Posts: 11,896 Forumite
    scooby1001 wrote: »
    What makes you think that this thread is about trying to scam the system. It is about people having problems with the IB/ESA system. Nobody said they want to scam anybody. If you don't have anything helpful to say don't bother replying.
    Some people like to tar everybody who claims benefits as spongers and wasters.

    Having gone through the system, I know that it is biased against the claimants - indeed have documentary evidence to prove this.

    BTW: I have proved the Financial Services Authority lack integrity with an official complaint - so know this can be proven against DWP also.
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