Advanced notice time for interview?

Jahlove

Is there not a certain amount of time of notice they have to give you prior to a ESA work related interview? ie a letter dated the 19th july received on the 20th july for an interview on the 24th july :mad:

Sugar_Coated_Owl

So you received the letter today and the work interview is on Tuesday, how much notice would you have liked?

Jahlove

So is there a specific amount of notice they have to give or not? I do not with to go into detail as to why i need more time.

Sugar_Coated_Owl

I think it's supposed to be 7 days but personally I'd just go, it's up to you though.

Jahlove

The problem is i have to arrange for somebody to help me get there which means i have to disrupt other peoples lives which i don't like doing, i like to be able to give them as much time as possible, also im lucky the letter arrived today it could have very well arrived on Monday with it been the weekend meaning i would have had 24 hours notice, it just seems rather quick to me.

Sugar_Coated_Owl

If it had arrived on Monday then I think it would have been reasonable to have called them and explained the situation, however, it didn't, it arrived today. Are you able to get in touch with the person who will take you there over the weekend? Is there a reason why you need somebody to go with you? Sorry I don't mean to pry, just trying to understand the situation.

Richie-from-the-Boro

Jahlove wrote: »

Is there not a certain amount of time of notice they have to give you prior to a ESA work related interview? ie a letter dated the 19th july received on the 20th july for an interview on the 24th july :mad:

- you can ring and ask, giving your reasons, but a 30% average try to avoid the appointments
- all ESA claimants are by definition are sick hence the high avoidance, given their chaos and their vulnerability
- the JC are aware of this and are generally uncooperative unless you can give good reasons
- stopping benefits for a no-show will be / is totally devastating and an economic disaster for the ill & MH-ill
- my advice is .. .. don't give them any reason, any opportunity at all to hit the return key on the puter and stop benefits

NOTE1: The walls have ears, and one wall was quoted as saying that in 6 short weeks from now IDS is going to instruct JC staff to arbitrarily cut benefit immediately from any one missing an appointment. That at this point is just a rumor but I've heard may rumor's in the past that turned out to be fact.

NOTE2 : The tribunal backlog for ESA specific tribunals is now running at just short of 52 weeks.

grummps

Sugar_Coated_Owl wrote: »

I think it's supposed to be 7 days but personally I'd just go, it's up to you though.

I think the poster wants to know what is the minimum number of days that they have to give before the assessment date.

If it is 7 and they have received only 4, then the rules have not been followed.

We, as claimants, have to abide by the rules, the same goes for the DWP and ATOS.

Personally if I was sure of the time frame, I would refuse to go citing that they haven't given the required minimum notice.

Whether you could go is another matter, they have to follow the rules. If you want to accept whatever they throw at you, fine, but I wouldn't.

Sugar_Coated_Owl

I guess everyone is different but I personally wouldn't complain. 4 days or 2 working days is plenty of time IMO unless of course there is a reason you may not be able to attend. You're going to have to attend at some point so if you can go now why not get it over and done with.

grummps

Sugar_Coated_Owl wrote: »

I guess everyone is different but I personally wouldn't complain. 4 days or 2 working days is plenty of time IMO unless of course there is a reason you may not be able to attend. You're going to have to attend at some point so if you can go now why not get it over and done with.

Of course everyone is different. There are those, like me, that in return for my complying with the rules and regulations I expect and demand that others (DWP/ATOS) do the same.

On the other hand there are those that will do anything and everything that they are told to do even though in doing so, they are allowing the DWP/ATOS to dictate what they want from them with no regards as to the correct procedures involved. For those, is it any wonder that ATOS/DWP are being allowed to do their own thing in the way that they see fit it doing it whenever they want to do it!

For those, many of which are posters on this site, that are trying to force ATOS & the DWP to comply with the correct procedures, it makes it all the more difficult - namely the recording of the assessments and making it widely known to the claimants that it is available.