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ESA SUCCESS AT LAST

Hello at last the brown envelope dropped through my letter box. After all this time nearly a year I can gladly say. I am back on ESA in the support group. Thank god because this should have never happened. I have been scanning a lot of the webchat about ESA. This has to change sure I am glad to be in this support group but I do feel for others. What I can not understand and never will involve outside agencies to do medical assessments. Been a long tired painful journey to get where are am now. Twenty years off and on whether I am fit to work or not. I note from others why are the medical professionals ignoring crucial evidence. I had in this one a support worker who spoke up from the very start and had a letter stating how bad my current situation is. I believe now that the answer may lie in an independent panel of three medical professional not outside agencies. Employed as impartial assessors. Give the outcome there and then. Like a appeal I had a long time ago. Went into a room waited while they evaluated everything. Even asked me was there anything else you wished to add. My support worker said my journeys and travelling to and from home and around the area restricted because of my disability. So that helped. Please can I ask what do others think? I know I supplied plenty of evidence and literally spoke all the time in assessments plus having a support worker helped a lot. Is that the answer?
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Thats great, yes there needs to be change as the current situation is a joke.
We all need to stick together and stay strong.
That's the great thing with our online community/website.
We need to gather all off our experiences to date and hand them over to someone high up.
So that they can see the real picture / hardship that we are having to go through every day.
I don't like having to "justify my disabilities" all of the time
I had better come off my "soapbox" for now!!!!
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Great news mate, you must be pleased, and relieved. I talk to a lot of people in the same situation - well, mostly, listen - and it seems to me that its the luck of the draw, what assessor you get, what type of mood they happen to be in on assessment day, things like that. There doesnt, to me anyway, seem to be a 'rule of thumb' for how to behave at assessments, but I agree with you that its not right. Benefits are for people in society who are, for whatever reason, unable to work; theyre often vulnerable, and unable to speak up for what is theirs by right, and to subject vulnerable people to the psychocompulsive bombardment they do nowadays is a form of criminal assault, and should be treated thus.
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