ESA, DLA and PIP chaos - DWP overturning more than half of it's own decisions on MR..

jennyjenkins

northerntwo1 wrote: »

I was referring to the fact they are still in the office at 6.30 pm

I haven't been in the office since 10.30 this morning, and by the looks of it I won't be in for many hours tomorrow either.

Morglin

Thanks for your input - it is helpful getting info from somebody currently working for the DWP.


Lin

50Twuncle

jennyjenkins wrote: »

I haven't been in the office since 10.30 this morning, and by the looks of it I won't be in for many hours tomorrow either.

Who else is aware of these facts ?
(And I don't mean the hours that you work)

Morglin

A lot of welfare rights have had an inkling with all this, but official whistleblowers are, understandably, rare.

It does help, though,when information is given by staff who work there.

Oh, and obviously, IDS and the Government know, but won't say lol

Lin

Poppie68

Hopefully Jenny Jenkins is genuine...i like to think she is, and to be honest it all makes sense..some disability and welfare groups have hinted the same for a while now and it seems they are correct. While most would like to vilanise DWP staff i have always found them more than helpful as i'm sure the majority do care and i'm also sure there comes a point they have had enough of abiding bye and following the rules.....it's good to think that maybe some may start speaking out....whistleblowers are brave people going against any system, and lets face it if the goverment did'nt have an agenda there would be no need for whistleblowing...let people have a voice!

50Twuncle

When do you reckon that it will be on the BBC news ?

jennyjenkins

I will be quite honest and tell you that the media already know about this mess, up until November 2013, I was working all the hours that God sent, we took on 32 new trainees, we trained them for three months, sent them on courses, I worked on Saturday and Sundays, we even had people in for interviews on the Saturdays, and made phone calls all over the weekends to claimants, to discuss their claims, my day started at 7am and I finished at 7pm, and YES I did get overtime for working these hours. We wanted the back logs to be cleared, then we started getting trouble with ATOS, they wanted to pay 50 million pounds, to the government, to stop their contract,the government refused, so ATOS stopped sending out there assessors, and they would not give us the paperwork that had been done. All the claimants that have made appeals and have had assessments, we have not got the paperwork for.

On top of this, we had just taken on all these people across the country, but luckily they were all on 6 month probationary so we could dismiss them, with out repercussions, from employment tribunals.

Then from the end Of November, we were told to put everything on hold, because of ATOS, many of you should know by now that they wanted out, they were not up to the job. Since January we used to have 8 appeals in each office per day, there were on average, 32 appeals per day, in just our office, with Doctors, medical staff, and advisor's, translators. We have had no appeals going through since March this year. The media know, there are questions being asked by local councilperson's who have been contacted by people waiting for their appeals. And we have to lie every single day, by saying we are clearing the backlog. We are not. We have cleared what we have and all we can do now is wait.

I am totally sick of the whole thing that is why I am on here.

Poppie68

jennyjenkins wrote: »

I will be quite honest and tell you that the media already know about this mess, up until November 2013, I was working all the hours that God sent, we took on 32 new trainees, we trained them for three months, sent them on courses, I worked on Saturday and Sundays, we even had people in for interviews on the Saturdays, and made phone calls all over the weekends to claimants, to discuss their claims, my day started at 7am and I finished at 7pm, and YES I did get overtime for working these hours. We wanted the back logs to be cleared, then we started getting trouble with ATOS, they wanted to pay 5 million pounds, to the government, to stop their contract,the government refused, so ATOS stopped sending out there assessors, and they would not give us the paperwork that had been done. All the claimants that have made appeals and have had assessments, we have not got the paperwork for.

On top of this, we had just taken on all these people across the country, but luckily they were all on 6 month probationary so we could dismiss them, with out repercussions, from employment tribunals.

Then from the end Of November, we were told to put everything on hold, because of ATOS, many of you should know by now that they wanted out, they were not up to the job. Since January we used to have 8 appeals in each office per day, there were on average, 32 appeals per day, with Doctors, medical staff, and advisor's, translators. We have had no appeals going through since March this year. The media know, there are questions being asked by local councilperson's who have been contacted by people waiting for their appeals. And we have to lie every single day, by saying we are clearing the backlog. We are not. We have cleared what we have and all we can do now is wait.

I am totally sick of the whole thing that is why I am on here.

So ATOS are holding peoples live for ransom???

ATOS need to be held responsible for all the lies and cheating they have participated in. They have ruined peoples lives but have made enough to line the pockets of all the crooks that run it,steal a few pounds of a British citizen make life harder for them while they are at their lowest but pocket millions of the British tax payers money...thats what you get for employing a French company to run a division of the British benefits system....are'nt they in charge of Universal Credit? thats a complete balls up as well....this goverment need obliterating for what they have put decent people through.

jennyjenkins

Poppie68 wrote: »

So ATOS are holding peoples live for ransom???

ATOS need to be held responsible for all the lies and cheating they have participated in. They have ruined peoples lives but have made enough to line the pockets of all the crooks that run it,steal a few pounds of a British citizen make life harder for them while they are at their lowest but pocket millions of the British tax payers money...thats what you get for employing a French company to run a division of the British benefits system....are'nt they in charge of Universal Credit? thats a complete balls up as well....this goverment need obliterating for what they have put decent people through.

This is why it is not public knowledge, there would be uproar, universal credit is also in the same position, but I do not work in that department it is only what I have found out. Giving tenants the money to pay their own rent has caused chaos, councils all over the country, are now owed rent by their tenants, where as they used to be paid direct, now it is given to the tenants to trot down to the Council offices themselves, it is not happening the tenants are just spending the money, it is a windfall to them. Trouble is, the councils can not make a family with young children completely homeless, so they are paying extra to put them up in travel lodges, and guest houses, whilst the council houses are being given to the Polish Roma's and other immigrants. It is complete chaos. And I hope that the Tories get back in next election because it is their mess they will have to clear it. I am sure they are hoping that Labour will win, and Labour will have one hell of a mess to clear up.

bloolagoon

jennyjenkins wrote: »

This is why it is not public knowledge, there would be uproar, universal credit is also in the same position, but I do not work in that department it is only what I have found out. Giving tenants the money to pay their own rent has caused chaos, councils all over the country, are now owed rent by their tenants, where as they used to be paid direct, now it is given to the tenants to trot down to the Council offices themselves, it is not happening the tenants are just spending the money, it is a windfall to them. Trouble is, the councils can not make a family with young children completely homeless, so they are paying extra to put them up in travel lodges, and guest houses, whilst the council houses are being given to the Polish Roma's and other immigrants. It is complete chaos. And I hope that the Tories get back in next election because it is their mess they will have to clear it. I am sure they are hoping that Labour will win, and Labour will have one hell of a mess to clear up.

Very confusing re your housing as I understood zero UC have yet to be implemented for families, when did they start this.