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ESA Appeal Advice Needed Please
hermum
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My brother got 0 points at his medical, so appealed this was heard on the 9th but he got no notification of the date so obviously didn't attend.
I assume that he should have had a letter informing him of the date-time. All his post is checked by myself or our Mum a couple of times a week, there has definitely been no letter about the appeal being heard.
Today there's a letter saying that he again received no points & that all benefits stopped on the 9th.
My Mum phoned DWP, who said that he can take it to a tribunal but the chances of winning would be virtually nil, as it's mental health & physically he's ok.
My brother has very little short term memory, he doesn't remember the simplest of day to day things. If he puts something down & can't remember where he gets himself into a real state. A short while ago he broke a back door key in half in his front door lock as he couldn't get into his flat, it didn't register with him that he was using the wrong key.
The GP, Psychiatrist & CPN all say that working is out unless the cause of the memory loss can be discovered & put right.
At the moment he generally has to be prompted on what to do, such as shower, change his clothes, bedding etc. He does heat up a meal when he's hungry but I'm not sure if that's every day as he's never been a big eater.
I just can't see what type of job he could do safely.
How can someone sign on to say that they are available to work when they aren't going to be able to hold a job down & the GP is signing them off sick. Surely that's fraud but if he doesn't sign on he has no money.
When he was signing on before Mum was taking him, she's in her 70's.
I don't know what we can do if anything & any more advice would be appreciated.
I assume that he should have had a letter informing him of the date-time. All his post is checked by myself or our Mum a couple of times a week, there has definitely been no letter about the appeal being heard.
Today there's a letter saying that he again received no points & that all benefits stopped on the 9th.
My Mum phoned DWP, who said that he can take it to a tribunal but the chances of winning would be virtually nil, as it's mental health & physically he's ok.
My brother has very little short term memory, he doesn't remember the simplest of day to day things. If he puts something down & can't remember where he gets himself into a real state. A short while ago he broke a back door key in half in his front door lock as he couldn't get into his flat, it didn't register with him that he was using the wrong key.
The GP, Psychiatrist & CPN all say that working is out unless the cause of the memory loss can be discovered & put right.
At the moment he generally has to be prompted on what to do, such as shower, change his clothes, bedding etc. He does heat up a meal when he's hungry but I'm not sure if that's every day as he's never been a big eater.
I just can't see what type of job he could do safely.
How can someone sign on to say that they are available to work when they aren't going to be able to hold a job down & the GP is signing them off sick. Surely that's fraud but if he doesn't sign on he has no money.
When he was signing on before Mum was taking him, she's in her 70's.
I don't know what we can do if anything & any more advice would be appreciated.
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