ESA Medical - here we go again!

NASA_2

What a pathetic idiot the previous poster is.

Probably thinks someone can get off the plane and get benefits on the way to their new home.

By the way, thousands of Brits emigrate every year to foreign lands, its not one way.

cit_k

Skinticket wrote: »

contest it and then get it looked at again only for someone else to back up what the cretin has put in the initial assessment....

atos and the dwp should be ashamed of themselves. said it before, and i'll say it again, unless you are an imigrant, you get NOTHING in this country.

Any evidence at all that immigrants fare better with ATOS ?

Or is it just an assumption?

Hastobe_Katt

ATOS staff certainly do work to targets - all the job descriptions state this quite clearly - http://www.atoshealthcarejobs.com/

NASA_2

Hastobe_Katt wrote: »

ATOS staff certainly do work to targets - all the job descriptions state this quite clearly - http://www.atoshealthcarejobs.com/

DWP do not pay ATOS for failing people.

WhiteHorse

NASA wrote: »

DWP do not pay ATOS for failing people.

Moot point.

Atos whistleblower exposes agenda to maximise rejections. [Other patient experiences].
Source: Amelia Gentleman 'Response suggests many people wrongly judged fit for work'. Guardian JoePublic Blog 29/03/2010
www.guardian.co.uk/society/joepublic/2010/mar/29/reader-responses-fit-to-work

WhiteHorse

cit_k wrote: »

Any evidence at all that immigrants fare better with ATOS ?

Now that would make an interesting FOI request.

WhiteHorse

cit_k wrote: »

You should be able to ring them up and ask for them to explain, or to put a explanation in writing for you, a statement of reasons for the decision I believe.

And if they won't provide it, simply file a Data Protection Act request.

WhiteHorse

melbury wrote: »

We received the copy of the medical assessment report today, certainly a bit of an eye opener - there are things written on there that I can't remember myself or my husband saying. I really wish that I had known then (last August) that it was possible to get a copy of the report because I would have contested many of the statements on it. Obviously far too late now and the next assessment imminent.

Not too late at all. You must - absolutely must - dispute each and every inaccuracy.

WhiteHorse

deeplyblue wrote: »

If you want to go and depress yourself, try googling "ESA not working CAB" which should get the CAB's report on how the first year of ESA went.

Yes, everyone should read this. It's an eye opener.

This assessment, to a much greater extent than previous versions, is a hostile assessment. They will assume that you are an idle, would-be benefit fraudster, and will take the most negative version of everything you say.

True, and then some. They want to get rid of you even if you are genuine.

NASA_2

WhiteHorse wrote: »

Moot point.

Atos whistleblower exposes agenda to maximise rejections. [Other patient experiences].
Source: Amelia Gentleman 'Response suggests many people wrongly judged fit for work'. Guardian JoePublic Blog 29/03/2010
www.guardian.co.uk/society/joepublic/2010/mar/29/reader-responses-fit-to-work

Is that meant to be proof or something?