Atos cancelling appointments Twice? (HP Sick?)

gemmaking

Heard people having their Atos assessment appointment being cancelled on the last minute (Atos saying the assessor has called in sick)

and some people have even had it happen to them twice (2 appointments cancelled)

1) What is this about? they are purposly messing claimants about?

2) As your allowed to change an appointment date once, if you cannot attend the first one,
Are these 'atos' cancelled appointments, considered as 'one your your' allowed changes to appointments?

3) Is it common for Atos to cancel these appointment with their excuses, cancelling on the last minute,

and then the DWP Stop your benefit, by DWP stating that you missed an appointment
(which is nonsense, as the truth is that Atos cancelled the appointment due to the HP being sick)

4) is, can this Twice (or more) cancel of appointments just be a ploy to stop your benefits

5) Has this happened to you? what was your outcome?


What is all this nonsense about ?

marliepanda

gemmaking wrote: »

Heard people having their Atos assessment appointment being cancelled on the last minute (Atos saying the assessor has called in sick)

and some people have even had it happen to them twice (2 appointments cancelled)

1) What is this about? they are purposly messing claimants about?

2) As your allowed to change an appointment date once, if you cannot attend the first one,
Are these 'atos' cancelled appointments, considered as 'one your your' allowed changes to appointments?

3) Is it common for Atos to cancel these appointment with their excuses, cancelling on the last minute,

and then the DWP Stop your benefit, by DWP stating that you missed an appointment
(which is nonsense, as the truth is that Atos cancelled the appointment due to the HP being sick)

4) is, can this Twice (or more) cancel of appointments just be a ploy to stop your benefits

5) Has this happened to you? what was your outcome?


What is all this nonsense about ?

That is my question also....

poppy12345

So many questions and threads asking about assessments, yet you never come back and thank anyone for any replies you get. My question here is ..... what is all this about?

Duplicate post here, again. https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5882305/atos-cancelling-appointments-twice-hp-sick

tazwhoever

It will be useful to answer OP's question, as it will help other claimants.

marliepanda

tazwhoever wrote: »

It will be useful to answer OP's question, as it will help other claimants.

Not particularly, as its going on about 'would this count as this' 'what happens if they penalise you for that.

Has anyone ACTUALLY been told they missed an appointment because it was cancelled by the company?

Has anyone ACTUALLY been messed around with continual missed appointments?

Are we really supposed to speculate wildly as to whether this is being done on purpose to 'mess people around' and 'stop their benefits'

All this anecdotal 'my friends neighbours mums aunty had her ATOS appointment cancelled twice' is pointless. If the OP wants to say

'Help, my ATOS appointment got cancelled due to sickness and now they are saying I cannot change this one because I have already had a change, but the change was out of my control' we can advise, but this is not the place for pointless anecdotal musings about non events.