Help with Ill Health Retirement

Nick_Roberts

Hello all, I won't go into too much medical detail;
I am looking for any help regarding IHR, my wife, worked for the civil service for 29 years and has now been dismissed, late Oct 2020. I am not looking at legal advise for a wrongful dismissal, wondering if there is a specialist IHR / Early Pension expert.
She has been refused IHR 3 times now and I believe we are approaching the last gasp appeals process.
She is 46 years old and has had all the work adjustments that were possible, the dept was very unwilling to let her go but as she is unable to continue they were left with no choice, Occupational have for several years been saying she is no longer fit to work and all adjustments have been made.
Health Management (the 3rd party tasked with holding the pension purse strings) agree she has had a breakdown of health but refuse to acknowledge to will not improve before retirement age. 
We have had a compensation pay-out from the dept as per the dept guidance so it is difficult to fault them but its the difference between a pension under IHR and living on benefits, which we won't get due to the pay-out. Over 16K.
We both feel at our whit's end. Mortgage, kids, bills, its too much, I'm not grown up enough for this.
N.

Dazed_and_C0nfused

Do you have a question?

Nick_Roberts

sorry, implied is there anyone Legal specialist solicitor wise you'd recommend I could contact for legal help to fight the decision

barnstar2077

Nick_Roberts said:

sorry, implied is there anyone Legal specialist solicitor wise you'd recommend I could contact for legal help to fight the decision

Is your wife a member of a union?  They normally have a legal department you could talk to. 

Brynsam

Expert free help readily at hand in the shape of the wonderful TPAS: https://www.pensionsadvisoryservice.org.uk/ask-us (and any lawyer with pensions expertise will point you in their direction, or at least point out that you can get free help there).

What is a nightmare to you and your poor wife is everyday stuff for them. If necessary, your case can then go on to the Pensions Ombudsman, whose determinations (decisions) are binding.

Just glanced back at your previous questions and I see your wife was actually being offered ill health early retirement from the Home Office in 2012. From the sound of it her health has deteriorated, so it's a bit hard to see what's going on. Make sure TPAS know about that when you contact them. It certainly doesn't guarantee success for your application this time around, but it should certainly feature if your wife's application if it hasn't yet done so.

Nick_Roberts

wow had forgotten it went back this far.
Dept found her somewhere, it was only ever a "suggestion" and no paper trail of said "suggestion".
I'll follow the above to see where that leads.
Many many thanks.