Appealing against Incapacity Benefit ceasing

ninanella

Hi

You should have got a booklet on how to appeal with the letter stating incapacity had stopped. You need to contact a citizens advice bureau or a local welfare rights org. to help you complete an appeal form. Don't attempt an appeal on your own.

Best of luck

Neva

Hello im also new to all of this,let me start by saying i have been on Incap for 6 years.I filled in a questionare a few months ago from them and recently got a phone call to attend my medical.I was told i would recive a letter to remind me but that never came.So i went for my medical and just recived letter sayin i failed.Now i got 12 points but needed 15 to pass,but it seems some of the answers i gave, the Doctor has put the opposite down.For example as i cant sleep and get medication for this i said this affects my daily activities,but they have put down that it doesnt.

Now i am thinking of appealing against this decision,but didnt get any leaflets to advise me on how to appeal.Do i have to fill out more forms with help from a Welfare Rights person,and will this person help me when i have to go to the appeal meeting?Ive never done appeal before so this all new to me.

Chrysalis

nogginthenog wrote: »

Just to give some balance to this debate ATOS gets HEAVILY fined for ever case that goes to appeal.

Even appeals that are rejected?

In fact atos carry out medicals not make the decisions so if they getting the blame for bad decisions perhaps decision makers should start having medical qualifications and stop simply rubber stamping atos origin medicals.

donnalove

Chrysalis wrote: »

Even appeals that are rejected?

In fact atos carry out medicals not make the decisions so if they getting the blame for bad decisions perhaps decision makers should start having medical qualifications and stop simply rubber stamping atos origin medicals.

But the decision maker makes his or her decision based on what the dr from atos has put!! and in my case(and many others on here and elsewhere) made up most of the stuff and twisted wot i said so in fact they are responsible for a majority of the failures.:mad:

Chrysalis

donnalove then thats a problem with the system, the DM should also be using evidence provided by the claimant (rather than always brushing it aside and using atos reports only) and evidence from other medical proffessionals such as GPs and specialists. Obviously atos do make mistakes the doctors used are similiar to GPs in skillsets and have never met the patients before so have to make judgements based on a very short one off medical but noone is pointing a gun to a DM head saying you must only use atos provided evidence.

Chrysalis

keith I cant speak for everyone but I expect people can and do get depressed whilst employed. The advice I hear people say most often is get a job and depression is healed. Probably the worst advice I have heard, not because I think it won't help as it may well do but because the people saying it typically think depression is a simple illness.

tigtag02

keith_bowen wrote: »

have any of you whos depressed actually thought it may help you getting a job it might cheer you up!!! instead of feeling sorry for yourselfs lying in your pit.

Have you thought about what your going to type before you actually do??

Why does this board attract these numpties :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

dmg24

keith_bowen wrote: »

sometimes!!! but everyone is allowed there opinion, its true if your depressed whats the point of lying in bed feeling sorry for yourself, get out there get a job and enjoy life, instead of lying to the gp just to get a sick note, and watch jeremy kyle!!!!

Perhaps you could go away and learn about clinical depression, and then come back and give an informed opinion?

Would you have the same point of view about somebody with diabetes? Both are caused by chemical imbalances.

tigtag02

keith_bowen wrote: »

sometimes!!! but everyone is allowed there opinion, its true if your depressed whats the point of lying in bed feeling sorry for yourself, get out there get a job and enjoy life, instead of lying to the gp just to get a sick note, and watch jeremy kyle!!!!

Surely opinions only count when they are:

• well thought out
• have some basis of (provable) fact
• spelt right :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

Chrysalis

keith_bowen wrote: »

true, but depression is too easily used nowadays, just to skip work and lye in bed!!!! there are loads of people who say they are depressed who dont work and could, i bet they never miss signing on day, but on the other hand it is a serious illness, but the word depresson is used by a lot not all just to lye in there pits all day.

unless you a doctor you saying what you only think to be true.

I can think of various reasons why depression is on the up, living today is so more stressful than previous decades.