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You should get a review form first. Then later after you've sent it off, you'll get a review. No idea what sort. Ask for a paper review if you have enough evidence.
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I had a form last year to fill in last year and i scored 10 points for not being able to go to unfamiliar places. I sent that off & is all i have other than my gp
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It should say on your award letter when you are due to be reviewed. Have a look and see what it says I'm not sure why Maximus have contacted you so soon.
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I had a mandatory reconsideration in 2020 that i won then the letter last year i sent off. I guess all i can do is wait and see. Should i start a separate thread about my issue as this thread isn't about me. Thanks.. I'm so anxious..
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We are all very scared and anxious, not knowing what is going to happen to us all. Its just chronic stress every day. I would just wait and see if they give to an appointment or if its a paper review. There's not really much else you can do at the minute
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Thank you, we are all in it together. It's so frightening 🙏
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Maximus is it fraudulent
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stay strong everyone
Thinking of you all
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i thought that
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PIP (Personal Independence Payment) assessments are typically conducted by private companies contracted by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). These companies include Maximus, Capita, Serco, and Ingeus, with specific regions assigned to each. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) may also conduct some assessments directly.
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The stress of all this is unbelievable for us isn't it 😔
I've been unwell for the last couple of weeks and now have a Crohn's flare too. I also fell down the stairs ten days ago - cracked some ribs and severely sprained ankle - black and blue all over my body.
I'm pretty sure it was because I wasn't concentrating properly - I can't focus on anything as my mind keeps drifting and I was worrying about stuff as I came down. Missed the rail and slipped .
I was hoping to put my name down for a flat on one level but that won't happen now with the cuts.
Anyway, I've now cost the NHS extra money with ambulance and treatment. This is what they're doing to us and it's just the start. 😢
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Thank you I'm in bed worn out I will reply tomorrow I appreciate but I have no choice other than to request paper or phone
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MW, of course they are linked. I haven't suggested otherwise. This is about working-age, disabled claimants.
You don't know what I'm talking about which is fine.
Fight the PIP battle if that's something you know about. How the DWP twisted the Incapacity Benefit/Income Support/ESA reassessment rules matters more than ever or I wouldn't be doing this. What divided the Mental Health community 10 years ago didn't just go away.
YOU are missing the point, now leave me be.
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PIP 4-point rule…
What I'm confused about is why, since I've joined the forum, p*ppy has advised members that supporting medical evidence wasn't necessary for a PIP application or renewal. It was and is. Members are now reporting scores of 2 across various descriptors and not many 4's.
Was she misled by a source, I can't help but wonder? She vanished suddenly from the forum. I am suspicious by nature but everything the DWP has done to date is dodgy. It is a ginormous department and our safety net has been dismantled incrementally under Iain Duncan Smith's long reign in Parliament.
With the advent of AI and move to digital Tribunal appeals, we need to act quickly. Getting those responsible arrested is the best suggestion so far.
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I don't think Labour are going to do well at the local elections. A lot of X users are asking people not to vote for them.
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Iain Duncan Smith introduced ESA in 2008 then 'modified' the qualifying criteria in 2011. PIP and UC were introduced by his 2012 Welfare Reform Act.
Out of the blue, in 2015, he spotted "a fundamental flaw" in the ESA regulations which necessitated yet more reform. Health assessments and reassessments are now conducted under 2016 rules minus a key substantial risk provision. ESA was rinsed by an omission of the all-important Oxford Comma! We were conned.
His 2012 reforms were corrupt. We need to understand the problem to find a solution.
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They mentioned to email them if your MP wasn’t on the list. I’ve sent several emails, but I’ve never received a response from DPAC.
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I’m really sorry to hear you haven’t received your ESA payment. They make life so difficult for us, don’t they? I hope it gets sorted soon. It might &be worth checking if there are any outstanding To-Do’s on your UC journal. Take care.
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While my comments are contrevertial, I am not afraid to be heard, and heard I will.
Because I am an activist in many other areas, I now find that where I was able to seperate things like the fight for the NHS and better working conditions, better, training at no cost to the Doctors and Nurses, (and when I say this I mean anyone taking or thinking of taking upp a career in the NHS) (Or care sector.) because even on this one point alone I could write enough to fill this forum.
Who do disabled people depend on to get help for their disability/s? It is the government that decided to join the financial aspect of assessments by the NHS for MEDICAL TREATMENT with the financial aspect of FINANCES as to what we are ENTITLED TO, and what we will actually get AFTER ANOTHER ASSESSMENT BY PEOPLE HIRED BY THE DWP TO GET US BACK TO WORK ORR REDUCE, OR REMOVE BENEFITS, because we have been left with no support from a system they created.
ADD to this people on long term sick, people who have suffered an injury or accident that has altered there normal way of working, this could be at one end the need for an amputation or the loss of sight, to after affects of the Pandemic.
The idea of the "BENEFITS SYSTEM" IS TO support, THOSE THAT NEED SUPPORT. It is not about sending money to foreign aid, or saving one steel plant and not making the effort to save Port Talbot, even if the reports say that the "new" electric Arc furnace may be completed by 2026?
Let me tell you a few home truths that you don't see: The plans for the new Electric Arc furnace have not been approved. They have not even put a spade in the ground yet because the government legislation has not told them how big it can be?
There has only been a rough draft of costing and man power needed to run the "new" Furnace, but in the mean time they have closed the Coke ovens, closed all blast furnace production, and opened another blast furnace in Poland along side the FOUR THEY ALREAD HAVE MAKING FIVE IN TOTAL that could not product the same quality or the same tonnage as NUMBER FOUR ON A TICK OVER, since this was built 1/4 BIGGER WHEN IT WAS DONE IN 2012, and all ancillary machinery including extraction, turbines, fuel efficencies were demolished and replaced with STATE OF THE ARC EQUIPMENT. i KNOW BECAUSE i WAS 1 OF THE 8 ENGINEERS ON SITE. i WORKED WITH HEALTH AND SAFETY and you won't see my name on the accident sheets or records kept during the 3 months I was their, because it was ZERO. No recorded accidents after rewriting the Health and Safety, risk assessments and Method Statements and placing a ring around the plant that every person on site had to be accounted for.
My point, there is nothing you cannot achieve if you sit down and look at the problem and discuss alternatives. Yes in some cases it may need cuts, but this would be because the service being provided DO NOT ADHERE TO THE RISK ASSESSMENTS OR METHOD STATEMENTS.
In our case it is being assessed by a Company/s HIRED by the DWP and PIP to assess financial needs of the PERSON CLAIMING THE BENEFIT. Not only disability or sickness benefits BUT ALL BENEFITS.
We are now being grouped into people (Able bodied) who the system has left unsupported for many years, and their answer to that was to close 800 JOB CENTERS? So who, now, takes the hit for their incompetence? WE DO, because we are easy targets.
The pandemic changed alot of rules, not in our favour, but the government had to be seen to do something. Where are the Nightingale Hospitals now that could have been used by the NHS to geet people out of hospital and into care but not at the same level allowing other people to be treated?
Where was the call for Doctors and Nurses and Care workers to "do their thing" unsupported by the government by being unable to supply the correct PPE WHEN IT WAS NEEDED. Rules were changed to relax the service industry, but now it seems that its time for us to pay the price. Enter Claire Rayner. How do you as an accountant change the legislation for care and treatment for Disabled and long term sick by having an assessment by hired guns?
Why didn't you use this method in the Pandemic?
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Almost 200 Labour MPs have a majority smaller than the number of recipients of personal independent payments in their constituencies!! 🤗
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