ESA & DLA Cancelled

bungle4by4

dmg24 wrote: »

I am guessing that posts #1 and #2 are actually the same person.

guess again. once more you are wrong. please get the ip addresses checked to prove it to your self.

i wonder if there will be an apology??

GlasweJen

I also want to clarify that I was born with a disability, I was educated with a disability and I successfully applied for and was offered work the way I am now, no one "let" me continue doing anything. I applied to enter the work force pre-pacemaker but I was actually in a worse state then than I am now.

Disabled people have a right to earn a living and I'm sorry but it wasn't luck that got me my job, it was a strong applicationand 2 good interviews.

Indie_Kid

GlasweJen wrote: »

I also want to clarify that I was born with a disability, I was educated with a disability and I successfully applied for and was offered work the way I am now.

Same here. Although I wasn't diagnosed until I was about 4 and again just before I was 21.

celinepatricia

GlasweJen wrote: »

I also want to clarify that I was born with a disability, I was educated with a disability and I successfully applied for and was offered work the way I am now, no one "let" me continue doing anything. I applied to enter the work force pre-pacemaker but I was actually in a worse state then than I am now.

Disabled people have a right to earn a living and I'm sorry but it wasn't luck that got me my job, it was a strong applicationand 2 good interviews.

It is very good that you have an employer who understands your needs and was willing to employ you. I totally agree that disabled people have a right to earn a living and it was my husbands bad luck that got him sacked from his job with 38 years experience, his employer obviously is not as understanding as yours.

sunnyone

GlasweJen wrote: »

And sunnyone they don't knock back everyone, they knocked back your husband and their decision may have been wrong but let's acknowledge that a lot of claims do go through with no issues.

By their own figures they are wrong over 40% of the times if you count the number of appeals won and even someone like me who shouldnt ever fail the medical worries about it after seeing my husbands treatment at the hands of atos my husbands case because I was at the medical and nothing at all that ended up in that report happend in the way it was reported or the information was completly incorrect, they couldnt even get his name and gender right!

If I got ten percent of the points that I should get I would ace the medical but just because Im severly disabled dosnt mean that I would in fact be awarded the points I should get, the same was true for my husband and he go 0 points.

You can look at my posting history, I was just like you until I saw it with my own eyes.

GlasweJen

I used to work for CAB, IB days though, before they introduced the scourge that is ESA. I think a lot of the problems are the exact same ones as IB, the major issue seems to be relying on people to input data. I'd die if any nurse ever tried to assess me for anything - they are nurses! Nurses (in my view, and my mum is a qualified nurse though she doesn't practice now) who do these medicals start to see themselves as doctors, they make judgements that they are not qualified to make and they incorrectly assume things about disabilities and disabled people. The best thing they could have done with IB when converting it to ESA was scrap doctors and nurses doing the assessments and hire occupational therapists. People who really know the extent to which a work place can be adapted and the sort of adaptations an employer would reasonably give would be better placed to assess the suitability of an individual to work than discredited doctors, nurses who can't get a job on the ward and the poor souls who do a good job and are keeping the whole thing together.

Take away the bias from the medical and the benefit would be a billion times fairer. Until then there will be cases falling through the net, hopefully some of the issues will go just by practice and the decisions coming out of tribunal but wouldn't it be nice if there were repercussions for the professionals who are found to be deliberately inputting wrong data?

GlasweJen

Farmersboy wrote: »

Ah I see now, sorry.

Don't be, the way this country is going I wont be missing much!

sunnyone

GlasweJen wrote: »

I'd die if any nurse ever tried to assess me for anything

We have to carry my husbands GP records with us where ever we go, our GP is the only one with every consultants letter and that points anyone to his full hospital records.

If my husband was taken ill any blood tests/clinical tests would come up with the wrong results, only his history can make sure that he would get the right treatment.

GlasweJen

I'm on medicalert which is handy because we sent them all the essentials (copy of pacemaker registration, list of severe allergies, blood and tissue types, copies of medication lists, dates of surgeries and transfusions etc), they can fax this to any hospital in the world along with a set of my baseline blood results (part of my condition makes my liver function blood results look abnormal when they're really fine). Comes in handy in the UK as well as abroad (they can translate), we've used it in England at music festivals, dominican republic, USA and across europe.

sunnyone

GlasweJen wrote: »

I'm on medicalert which is handy because we sent them all the essentials (copy of pacemaker registration, list of severe allergies, blood and tissue types, copies of medication lists, dates of surgeries and transfusions etc), they can fax this to any hospital in the world along with a set of my baseline blood results (part of my condition makes my liver function blood results look abnormal when they're really fine). Comes in handy in the UK as well as abroad (they can translate), we've used it in England at music festivals, dominican republic, USA and across europe.

I will google that, thanks it would be very handy for my husband, his blood test results throw up weired and the first thing that comes up is that hes diabetic but he isnt, its his endocrine system failing then working for a short time.