Hi, my name is neilbacon! Can anyone drop me some advice on UC tribunal?

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  • neilbacon
    neilbacon Online Community Member Posts: 12 Listener
    Folks I'd like to say thank you all for your wonderful advice.
    Last Tuesday I won my case hands down with universal credit I was only in the tribunal for 10 minutes  my representative was ready to rip universal credit a new hole .but there was no need as UC backed down and admitted they got everything wrong.
    It also helped my case with getting the top rate of PIP awarded the day before.
    So if like to say a massive thank you again 
  • Tori_Scope
    Tori_Scope Scope Posts: 12,468 Championing
    Thank you for the update @neilbacon :) It sounds as though you've had some successes recently, which is great to hear! How are you feeling today? I can imagine this is a weight off of your mind.
  • neilbacon
    neilbacon Online Community Member Posts: 12 Listener
    Hiya yes it was a massive weight lifted as I'd been fighting them for 2 years.
    I see Uc As a total pain in the Ass.
    They don't seem to take anything into consideration all they're interested in is getting people back to work because it's all about number crunching 

  • TerryG
    TerryG Online Community Member Posts: 40 Contributor
    Neil,you are spot on with that assessment of the assessor's in your assessing of them.I call them the Traffic Wardens of the DWP,they are gonna give you a ticket regardless,the ticket being denied the award.The mandatory appeal is done in house,so you fail that,like phoning to appeal a ticket,then you get to the trial,you show your evidence,which is over riding in your favour,and an independent Judge/ Dr makes an assessment of the facts not opinions,and you win your appeal.
    Did you realise that over a two year period,an assessor gets to see you for let's say 40miutes,that equates to 0.004 of 1% over 712 days!!!!!.Yet,there "opinion" carries more weight than all the medical professionals and there factual evidence.
  • neilbacon
    neilbacon Online Community Member Posts: 12 Listener
    Good morning g Terry,
    I fought this battle for two years all the evidence I sent in was in my favour even letters from my Gp who all clearly stated I was not fit for work because if my medical conditions yet all this was over looked .tbf I'm glad that when I appealed I had the good advice from my mental health welfare rights officer who took on my case and attended the appeal with me he made the DWP look stupid he had a lost of points and fallers on there part .
    But this could have been resolved 2 days before my appeal went ahead because the Dwp received a copy of my PIP letter giving me the maximum amount of points for both elements  yet the DWP still went ahead with the tribunal.
    The judge wasn't happy with the DWP at all when he made it clear in his acessment 

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