Triage has "Forced" me to take a job

OldMotherTucker

seven-day-weekend wrote: »

The OP may not be able to get there if they can't drive and/or there is unsuitable public transport.

I've just discovered that being paid DLA doesn't make the help you need any more easier to access:(

I will struggle getting to work next week: my LRM can't pay for a transport service that doesn't operate:(

nannytone_2

rogerblack wrote: »

Deemed unfit for work does not mean unfit for work.
Just like being deemed fit for work does not mean fit for work.

but what it does mean is that the OP cant be sanctioned for refusing a job offer

teddysmum

It's several years ago, now, but my totally blind (after a brain haemorrhage )brother-in-law was sent to work on the shop floor in Sainsburys. He has an odd sense of humour so chose to go for the interview.

HB58

Poppie68 wrote: »

You lost me....deemed/considered unfit for work does not mean unfit for work?

I think rogerblack is pointing out that the ESA eligibility criteria have little (or nothing) to do with being unfit to do any type of work. People who 'fail' the ESA assessment can, in reality, be unfit for work now or in the future (due to a progressive condition, for instance) whilst some people who are more able can tick the ESA boxes.

Nowhere on the ESA assessment does it take into account whether there is any safe work environment for the claimant, nor whether anyone would actually employ them.

rogerblack

HB58 wrote: »

I think rogerblack is pointing out that the ESA eligibility criteria have little (or nothing) to do with being unfit to do any type of work. People who 'fail' the ESA assessment can, in reality, be unfit for work now or in the future (due to a progressive condition, for instance) whilst some people who are more able can tick the ESA boxes.

Nowhere on the ESA assessment does it take into account whether there is any safe work environment for the claimant, nor whether anyone would actually employ them.

Quite.
My common example is someone who due to a sports injury cannot place either hand into a upper shirt pocket, but can do every other task gets placed into the support group.

A claimant who uses a wheelchair, can't walk and can slowly wheel himself over 200m. He can only work for 90 minutes at a time before becoming utterly exhausted. He has difficulty conveying or understanding more than simple messages from strangers. Once every couple of months has a sudden accident where he loses control of his bowels. Can barely operate a washing machine. Several hours a day he can't cope with trying to talk to new people.

Is fit for work.

(according to the ESA rules).
At no point in the ESA test is 'claimant is unfit for any reasonable hope of work' a direct route to ESA.