Looking for the silver lining

brizzledfw

Have a good weekend SA, hope it's not too cold.

PS. And I reckon that third room in the villa could just about to squeeze us all in!! :rotfl:

Buffythedebtslayer

I'll carry the bags! don't go without me! XX

please-let-me-be-lucky

Hope all goes well at 9am Xx

Sun_Addict

Assessment centre rang us this morning saying if we could get in earlier the doctors were waiting. So we got a taxi straightaway. The doctor Mr SA saw apologised for him having to come in, said he should never have been called in. They had enough medical evidence to make a decision without assessment. He just did a very short assessment noting Mr SA's muscle wastage, unsteady gait and marked weakness down his left hand side. He said he wouldn't be expected to look for work and would recommend this to DWP. He won't be reassessed again. He apologised for the inconvenience and that was it done. Mr SA then got up from the chair and fell on top of the scales in the room!

I knew they'd be able to tell as soon as he walked in the room and I was right. Mr SA is relieved though, he was really worried.

We went for a coffee afterwards as Mr SA had been too worried to eat breakfast and then got a taxi home.

Another medical appointment over, next is consultants on 20 Feb, followed by my physio the next day then my mammogram on 6 March. Then that's it for a bit!

mummytogirls

What a relief for Mr SA, so glad the appointments now over with with the decision confirmed. Its ridiculous that the was called in in the first place.

Enjoy the rest of your Saturday SA xx

maddiemay

What a relief, I am sure that coffee was very welcome afterwards:D Enjoy the weekend now, hope the weather not too horrid with you, lots of big fluffy snow flakes earlier, but not laying:D:D

please-let-me-be-lucky

Great news about the assessment, annoying that it was called for in the first place though :mad:.

Have a lovely weekend Xx

Sun_Addict

Thanks all. Even the assessor was annoyed with DWP.

Trying to snow here but more sleety and too wet to settle. Bitterly cold though.

brizzledfw

Stay wrapped up warm inside? Glad assessment was so emphatic. Sorry you were put through it by the process though.

Eager_Elephant

Glad the assessment went well (although not Mr SA falling over although that did at least show his balance is completely off!!)


The problem is under ESA even people in the support group (the top group) have to keep being called back - they have just recently relaxed the rules so people with illnesses/conditions where they will never improve (so as to come out of the support group) will not be called for assessments any longer.


The problem is that it's all computerised so no one actually looked at Mr SA's file before the assessment centre so there is no human input which would have put a stop to a needless assessment.


Hopefully when the Doctor said Mr SA won't be called again he actually has noted that Mr SA should come under the new criteria for not needing a follow up assessment.


Working in the benefits field I can see why they keep reassessing everyone because unfortunately under Incapacity Benefit and the Severe Disablement Allowance there were a lot of people fit for work who were put on to these benefits and never reassessed when actually a year or two down the line they would have been able to get into work.