Incapacity benefit / work focus interview?

Prinzessilein

cit_k wrote: »

WFI's are not normal on IB.

Never had one.

In fact, I dont think anyone gets them on IB.

I am on IB. I had a WFI. I was told I would have to attend 5 of them. After the first one, which I attended with my mother/carer I was told that I would not have to attend the others.

cit_k

Prinzessilein wrote: »

I am on IB. I had a WFI. I was told I would have to attend 5 of them. After the first one, which I attended with my mother/carer I was told that I would not have to attend the others.

Thanks, odd, WFI's have never even been mentioned to me, perhaps its a pilot,or a rule change in the past. But they have never once mentioned them. Weird.

Tehya

ash4becks wrote: »

tbh the shaw trust are no bother if only the job centre was run by them,

Hello,

You're the first person I've ever heard praise the Shaw Trust. Give me the JC+ staff any day, most of them are polite, helpful and have some great advice whilst actually knowing their jobs unlike the Shaw Trust.

I'm my husband's full time carer and had to complain about the Shaw Trust when they had my hubby's ESA stopped for none attendance of a WFI even though he's in the support group and doesn't have to go to them.

I'd already rung them to say he didn't have to attend but the Shaw Trust advisor said that my hubby was in the group that has to attend as that what the SUPPORT means in support group. Two weeks after we'd sorted it all out she rang me again insisting that he should come into their office as it may do him good and help make him not be so disabled anymore. :eek: He has Psoriatic Arthritis that has bent his bone all out of shape.

Then in April this year my brother, who has cysts growing inside the bones of his feet and several other joints, had to go to one of these WFIs where they tried to get him to take a job in a factory packing biscuits for 8 hour shifts when he can't stand up for more than a couple of minutes at a time. He is also now in the support group.

ash4becks

Tehya wrote: »

Hello,

You're the first person I've ever heard praise the Shaw Trust. Give me the JC+ staff any day, most of them are polite, helpful and have some great advice whilst actually knowing their jobs unlike the Shaw Trust.

I'm my husband's full time carer and had to complain about the Shaw Trust when they had my hubby's ESA stopped for none attendance of a WFI even though he's in the support group and doesn't have to go to them.

I'd already rung them to say he didn't have to attend but the Shaw Trust advisor said that my hubby was in the group that has to attend as that what the SUPPORT means in support group. Two weeks after we'd sorted it all out she rang me again insisting that he should come into their office as it may do him good and help make him not be so disabled anymore. :eek: He has Psoriatic Arthritis that has bent his bone all out of shape.

Then in April this year my brother, who has cysts growing inside the bones of his feet and several other joints, had to go to one of these WFIs where they tried to get him to take a job in a factory packing biscuits for 8 hour shifts when he can't stand up for more than a couple of minutes at a time. He is also now in the support group.

its the other way around round mine by the sounds of it you walk in and the looks there is one exception in the office i used to go to the darling receptionist who i used to hand my sick notes into if i see her in the town she always smiles and asks how iam geting on and she told me to claim IS and dla

WhiteHorse

Tehya wrote: »

... they tried to get him to take a job in a factory packing biscuits for 8 hour shifts when he can't stand up for more than a couple of minutes at a time.

Shaw Trust is a purely commercial operation whose staff are paid on commission. It's not a proper charity anymore.