59 year old failed 2nd medical for ESA after passing first....

Kiada

SailorSam, these are really interesting. Can you provide anymore of these tips, or point us in the direction of where to read more?

Thanks

Cpt.Scarlet

chinna wrote: »

Do you still receive employment and support allowance at the basic rate during the appeal? And do you need to send in a sick note as they told us not to send anymore in, unless asked.

Yes to both. You were told not to send in further Fit Notes because your father was found fit to work, as you are appealing this is no longer valid.

nad1611

SailorSam wrote: »

Another ESA claim tip email i've received.


ESA Tip 8. Don’t get caught by the TV trap!

Probably best to put this in case of copyright. Also the site works by people signing up on the site and receiving emails.
http://www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/

paulrn_2

You could look at it the other way round He failed the first medical and passed the second and can now look for work. !!!

Mojisola

paulrn wrote: »

You could look at it the other way round He failed the first medical and passed the second and can now look for work. !!!

If "passing the medical" magically cured your health problems, we'd all be queuing up, hoping to "pass".

pelirocco

sunnyone wrote: »

Its disgraceful the amount of money that the goverment waste on interperters for dozens of languages, the census is available in over 50 of these languages someone posted on DT.

It was mooted that you couldnt become a British citizen unless you could speak English and I think that its a very good idea, if you don't want to learn English how do you deal with everyday living in our country?

How do you catch a bus, pay a bill, bank, deal with medical issues, deal with education issues for your children (and hinder their education by English not being spoken at home) or even order a coffee without speaking English?



I'll get my tin hat out now.

Strangely enough when non English speakers are working , there seems to be no problem in deducting Paye and NI from their wages ? so not really sure what point you are trying to make

Incidently thousands of brits move abroad to live every year ........I wonder how many of them learn to spean the language

sunnyone

pelirocco wrote: »

Strangely enough when non English speakers are working , there seems to be no problem in deducting Paye and NI from their wages ? so not really sure what point you are trying to make

Incidently thousands of brits move abroad to live every year ........I wonder how many of them learn to spean the language

Do you have a clue what a 'terp costs per hour?

Deaf British people cant get 'terps yet govermant departments spends billions on them for none English speakers.

Paying tax etc. has nothing to do with anything and British people that move abroad either learn the language or pay for their own interpreter because other countries arn't stupid enough to pay for them from ignorant immigrants to their country who are to lazy to learn how to survive on their own by learning the lingo.

edited to add, you cant really be a decent employee if you cant be part of the team because you cant speak English either and who would employ someone who couldnt work with the public or answer the phone etc?

krisskross

sunnyone wrote: »

Paying tax etc. has nothing to do with anything and British people that move abroad either learn the language or pay for their own interpreter because other countries arn't stupid enough to pay for them from ignorant immigrants to their country who are to lazy to learn how to survive on their own by learning the lingo.

We lived in Spain and you got very short shrift from 'officialdom' if you couldn't speak Spanish or had not brought an interpreter with you. Basically you got told to go away...think it was a bit more basic than that but I never got round to learning the naughty bits:rotfl:

Official forms were in Spanish only.

Why does Britain spend so much on the provision for people with no English when other countries don't see the need?

I cannot comprehend how someone can work in this country for years and still not speak or understand English, unless of course it wasn't an English employer.

seven-day-weekend

We provided our own interpreter when my husband was in hospital in Spain and would not expect the hospital to provide one. She was at the end of a mobile phone in case we did not understand what the Doctor was saying. We only needed to use her once. She spoke to the Dr on the phone and then told us what he had said.

peteretc

goodadvicematters wrote: »

Hi there, we've just started a new service offering free specialist welfare benefit advice via emai. Because we're new to this forum it wont let me do a link but there's a guide on our website about how to appeal an ESA decision and build the best possible case. We would welcome some feedback as to how useful people find that guide. Just put Good Advice Matters into Google. Cheers.

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Just took a look at it.Always good to see help sites.I see you help with appeal and dealing with ESA.Would you agree its always best to take someone along with you.Given how overstretched CAB is and Welfare Rights.Do you offer assistance by attending with people at all.As I'm sure you will agree the whole process can be very overwhelming to some.If not, apart from high cost lawyers can you suggest who else with the neccessary knowledge ?