Returned to Support Group (wow)

GotToChange

Just an update for anyone who might be interested (can't rmember how to link previous posts); after the WCA regarded me as now well-enough (my claim is/always has been around mental health issues) to be in the WRA Group, I did submit a Mandory Review request. Well, I just received a letter telling me that I am to be returned to the Support Group - I think they have applied Regulation 29 (?).
I consider myself very fortunate to have this happen as I have been declining even more rapidly , especially as so few decisions are changed at this stage - and was literally having nightmares about the appointment at the JobCentre, which is (was!) to be next Monday.
Thank goodness that the second Decision Maker saw sense.
:beer: to everyone who offered advice on my original thread xx

poppy12345

Great news! Just so you know, Support Group is reg 35 not 29.

GotToChange

poppy12345 wrote: »

Great news! Just so you know, Support Group is reg 35 not 29.

Ah, right - there is a whole list of Regulations under a heading "The Law" at the end of the letter

Kris35

Hi there. I also was put back into the SG after asking for a MR. .also thanks to the advice on here. It's such a relief isn't it.

GotToChange

Kris35 wrote: »

Hi there. I also was put back into the SG after asking for a MR. .also thanks to the advice on here. It's such a relief isn't it.

Yes it is - I can hardly believe it. In addition to what seemed like an "early" assessment (9 months after the previous one) for ESA, I have been put through the wringer for PIP (is now one year since my initial application and was told 33+ weeks to Tribunal back in March), so was so very worried that I would then have to go through the same for ESA. I had no extra "evidence" to submit but wrote a two-page letter that went into more detail than I had been allowed during the WCA.
I literally started shaking when I saw the letter come through the door, and felt absolute relief when I saw what it said.

TELLIT01

Decision being overturned at the MR stage isn't common but, as shown here, it does happen. If a claimant believes they have a case, it's always worth requesting.

GotToChange

TELLIT01 wrote: »

Decision being overturned at the MR stage isn't common but, as shown here, it does happen. If a claimant believes they have a case, it's always worth requesting.

Yes, I knew it was rare - esp. when it's all about mental health. Previously, into Support Group with no "problem"; on the second tiime [only January 2017] I was actually at the interview told that that was what the Assessor (Nurse) was going to recommend. This time, even though things had got worse or certainly not changed for the better, I was not surprised when it came back as the WRAG - maybe more to do with the bigger picture than me as an individual. (This time the Assessor was a Physiotherapist so maybe not tuned in to mental health issues, also he wore two hearing aids, so trying to speak quietly or hesitantly was out of the question, so I don't think it was really fair.) Thankfully, I did submit the MR request, although I was not hopeful, again due to the bigger picture.... as well as just "showing up" (albeit accompanied) can count as being OK to work..... I have always been more eloquent in writing than in person (unless arguing), but even so thought that that might go against me. I am so very relieved (slept well for the first time since January last night), as I know things could be far worse...... but even so, I remain severely mentally unwell and without support.... or hope really

Kris35

When I went for my assessment I walked in laughing and showing off. Then someone on here said there's a clause or there was a ruling that you don't have to be anxious and depressed all the time so I stated that. I also realised I could get through due to social isolation which I can kind of prove. I rang them up with new evidence. .been hospitalised with a severe panic attack but didn't get that far. .woman on phone said id been put in SG. I had to get her to repeat it twice. You sound like me. .I'm rubbish talking to people and much better writing. Now I don't want to have to rely on benefits as too worried so need to find way to make money.

GotToChange

Yes, I think there are some things we have in common. I am inlcined to think it is a chicken and egg situation and which comes first? I would never in a million years thought that I would be socially anxious - I was always the life and soul and would hold a group together (or maybe I didn't and I am being egotistical.....). I flew with my eight-year-old daughter -just the two of us - from Heathrow to New Zealand, stopping off in (on) Japan, and also totally alone to Johannesburg South Africa to get my face carved up (big mistake and in the days when I had money, and a job) - and now, I can hardly get around my local Sainsbury's - and have been known to leave shopping and rush out in a panic.
In a sense, you should be "proud" that you arre still standing. I know that sometimes have to remind myself that it takes strength to survive in this sometimes hostile world.