Appealing against Incapacity Benefit ceasing

dmg24

Titch89 wrote: »

That's rubbish. I don't know about anyone else, but nothing helps my IBS (which is fairly common I believe) and nothing can be done about my poor balance or my other problems. Doesn't mean that I am fit enough to work.

No disrespect, but is there anything that you don't have wrong with you?

krisskross

Titch89 wrote: »

That's rubbish. I don't know about anyone else, but nothing helps my IBS (which is fairly common I believe) and nothing can be done about my poor balance or my other problems. Doesn't mean that I am fit enough to work.

Surely at your age you are not saying that there will be no work you can ever do?

Titch89

krisskross wrote: »

Surely at your age you are not saying that there will be no work you can ever do?

I never said that. The way I am now, means I currently can't work.

healy

Titch89 wrote: »

That's rubbish. I don't know about anyone else, but nothing helps my IBS (which is fairly common I believe) and nothing can be done about my poor balance or my other problems. Doesn't mean that I am fit enough to work.

Alot of people can be helped with their IBS by using medication prescribed by their Doctor.

Titch89

Nothing they've put me on works. I did get told (by a stomach specialist) that this is true for some people.

rhiane4phil

thanx for that. better get writing then! he definately will be attending the appeal. we're all just really nervous bout it as we've been disheartened by what the doc at the medical said. it seems like because his symptoms are not physical, no-one will believe him. he contracted encephalitis at 18 (hes now 27) and has been left with scaring on the brain that has left him with many problems. maybe if he turns up in a coffin they might believe him!!!

MichaelR_3

I went for a PCA in May and got taken off IB as a result. When I looked through the results list they sent me, I noticed that a lot of my answers had been changed. Hardly any of them were as I had said originally. They gave me 6 points for mental health. When I checked through them and totalled it up, I worked it out as 22 points.

A bit of background info. In 1997, I was diagnosed manic depressive (now known as Bi-polar) and put on Lithium. When I moved to another area and registered with a new GP, he took me off the Lithium right away saying he didn't like it, and put me on Prozac instead. Since then, I have been all over the place with depression, anxiety and panic attacks. I can't hold down a relationship or a job for very long. I can't even bear to go outside on my own and have to have someone with me. I'm 46 and still have my parents come down once a week to take me shopping, otherwise I wouldn't be able to do it. I've also attempted suicide twice and been hospitalised for it.

Two years ago, I started having problems with bleeding, bloating and stomach pains etc. I was sent to see a GI specialist and had a colonoscopy. I was then diagnosed with Ulcerative Colitis. I am still under the specialist for that and attend hospital every 6 months for a check up, but my GP gives me the prescriptions when I need them. If my current medication doesn't help, they are going to put me on steroids, and if they don't help, the only other option is to have my colon removed.

I told the examiner all of this at the medical and it seems none of it mattered.

When I got the appeal form through, I sent them the reply with the points I had been awarded, but I commented on each point which should have been a yes, and which should have been a no.

I'm still waiting to hear about the appeal, and I'm now thinking, after reading some of the posts on here, that I should have gone to the CAB or an advice centre before I sent the appeal off.

I just needed to get it off my chest.

Titch89

One of the things on the PCA is something absout being able to read a certain sized print at reading distance. What happens with people who can only read in certain colours?

georgina_fenwick

Hi, my sister was recently taken off IB after failing a medical. She is appealing against the decision so is currently on a reduced rate of IS.

If she wins her appeal will she get her benefit backdated to the date she was taken off IB?

Thanks.

healy

georgina_fenwick wrote: »

Hi, my sister was recently taken off IB after failing a medical. She is appealing against the decision so is currently on a reduced rate of IS.

If she wins her appeal will she get her benefit backdated to the date she was taken off IB?

Thanks.

Yes she will get the full amount backdated minus the reduced Income Support.