All repeat WCA medicals to be stopped

trenzalore_2

I so very very hope that the MP's don't kick up a fuss and get this overturned. There is nothing more that will help me get better than not having to worry about the impending WCA.

Despite paying for private treatment and fully utilising NHS support I'm still nowhere near ready to return to work and even though I'm still months away from what should be my next WCA I'm already getting stressed and dreading every brown envelope. I received one last week that sent me into a complete melt down as it felt thick and I thought it was the form to fill in. I just couldn't open it, my son did when he came home from school and it was just about April's 1% rise.

The next day another brown but thinner envelope came and feeling brave I opened it.... to find it is another appointment for a WRAG interview at the jobcentre. I'm doing everything I can to get better, but the best thing that could happen is they leave me in peace to do it.

trenzalore_2

tomtontom wrote: »

With advances in medicine there is no such thing as an incurable disease in the longer term. No one should be written off for life because of a diagnosis.

What a completely stupid thing to say. Try telling that to someone someone who was born with a serious disability, or a degenerative one such as MND for eg?

tomtontom

trenzalore wrote: »

What a completely stupid thing to say. Try telling that to someone someone who was born with a serious disability, or a degenerative one such as MND for eg?

Not stupid at all. Can you say what medical advances will be made in 3, 5, 10 years time? As someone that lives with an apparently incurable condition, I hold out hope that the wonders of science will one day make my condition more manageable.

schrodie

trenzalore wrote: »

What a completely stupid thing to say. Try telling that to someone someone who was born with a serious disability, or a degenerative one such as MND for eg?

Maybe one day they'll find a cure for 'stupidity' although somehow I doubt it!

trenzalore_2

tomtontom wrote: »

Not stupid at all. Can you say what medical advances will be made in 3, 5, 10 years time? As someone that lives with an apparently incurable condition, I hold out hope that the wonders of science will one day make my condition more manageable.

We all hope that will be the case, and I'm sorry to hear that you have a currently incurable condition. While you I wish you nothing but well even you must realise that recalling people with conditions such as yours (what ever it may be) is at this point in time is pointless, expensive and stressful and best avoided for everyone.

only_mee

Nice respite for us on ESA, and thoroughly welcomed

lemontart

only_mee wrote: »

Nice respite for us on ESA, and thoroughly welcomed

Certainly eliminates some stress whilst waiting game for tests, results and specialist appts followed by more of the same goes on followed by waiting for treatment attempts that do not worsen condition or have debilitating effects. Hopefully by the time the 2 year respite mentioned on another site is up I personally will be in a better place and able to start work or at least look for work again.

Indie_Kid

tomtontom wrote: »

With advances in medicine there is no such thing as an incurable disease in the longer term. No one should be written off for life because of a diagnosis.

Oh really? I've been told time and again by numerous doctors that I'm incurable. Unless of course someone can come up with an operation that completely rewires my brain, sort out the issues with the membrane in my brain, give me optic nerve transplants and sort out the eye muscle problems I have.

It's not so much the diagnosis. It's the fact that due to the diagnosis I have these issues which are highly unlikely to change. And I don't want a cure for my Autism either. Most people don't either.

Lozz

Indie_Kid wrote: »

. And I don't want a cure for my Autism either. Most people don't either.

I think you will find that most autistic people would love a cure for their condition, or at least their friends and family would!


Back on topic, does anyone know what happens with existing claims now? I'm pretty much at the end of my tether with it all, my son's ESA claim has been in since April 5th 2013 and Atos have had his ESA50 since 9th June 2013. And to the poster who says its the DWP's fault, they have been as helpful as they can whilst when I call Atos I get from mildly disinterested to verbally abused by them.


My son is nearly 20. doesn't know how to tell the time, doesn't know his date of birth (which one Atos staff member insisted on speaking to him to ask this and I had to repeat each digit to him for him to answer), and isn't even able to be left on his own. In the end to be told no idea of what, where and when.


If anybody else wasn't able to carry out their job in seven months they would be sacked, so maybe this is a good thing.


Lozz x

Indie_Kid

Lozz wrote: »

I think you will find that most autistic people would love a cure for their condition, or at least their friends and family would!

Most actually don't. You don't know what this "cure" will actually do.

Back on topic, does anyone know what happens with existing claims now? I'm pretty much at the end of my tether with it all, my son's ESA claim has been in since April 5th 2013 and Atos have had his ESA50 since 9th June 2013. And to the poster who says its the DWP's fault, they have been as helpful as they can whilst when I call Atos I get from mildly disinterested to verbally abused by them.

Have you complained about the verbal abuse from ATOS? That really is unacceptable. I'd say it was ATOS's fault - all DWP have to do (my understanding anyway) is to pass his file to ATOS who then decide what happens next.