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Virgo_
Virgo_ Online Community Member Posts: 46 Connected
edited June 10 in Universal Credit (UC)

hi I’m just curious does anyone know how this works , I’ve been having a nightmare with my case worker at universal credit , I’m waiting for a new lwc assessment, I’ve previously had one a few years ago got awarded lwc , not lwcr anyway alot of time passed with hearing nothing then all of a

Sudden they wre requesting I go to the job centre for meetings each month , while waiting for my new assessment, I’m fine to do this but I requested over the phone or video link , my case worker didn’t want to do this she’s almost broke her leg trying to get me to go in , I suffer with savere anxiety and bipolar depression, plus disability’s from a car accident I had 20 years ago , I have mostly all of my appointments on the tel doctors etc , I get my food delivered I don’t go out basically! So after 2 tel appointment and her trying to keep pressuring me to go in she finally agreed to do a video call call for this appointment I was supposed to have this morning , so she was supposed to call at 9.20 it got to 9.30 still no call then at 9,40 she left a message on my journal to say why had I missed my appointment, I then rung universal credit to confirm I had been waiting for my call , only for her to then say she told me I had to click on the link of video call on my journal to access the appointment, she said she had told me this at my previous tel appointment, I was not aware and she didn’t tell me

, I wish they could listen to the call to prove she didn’t I actually thought it would come through like a FaceTime as naive as it might sound . Anyway I wasn’t then pleasant to her I left a message calling her out on lying about it , I wasn’t rude just truthful , I feel like it’s just become personal between us , me not going in her wanting me to , last time she spoke to me it was like she was undermining me , anyway this all happened this morning I then had another message to say another appointment had been booked at the job centre with someone else , I then rung universal credit to ask for reasonable adjustments they filled out a application and said someone will ring me on Monday ??? I’m sorry it’s so long winded but does anyone know what might happen now can it be declined ? I’m a nervous jittery wreck

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  • Holly_Scope
    Holly_Scope Posts: 2,737 Scope Online Community Coordinator

    Hi @Virgo_ I'm really sorry to read about your experience. It's really disappointing what you've been put through, throughout the process. Hopefully your new assessor is much more understanding to your circumstances. I hope you're getting on better now.

  • Virgo_
    Virgo_ Online Community Member Posts: 46 Connected

    Hi Holly , I now have a new lady and she’s lovely , no pressure on me whatsoever and she’s now changed my tel appointments to every 6 weeks so that’s much better , she knows I don’t go out and she’s fine with just checking in on me . I’m still waiting for my new lwca assessment, my paper work was handed in before the 5th of December 2024 , so 7 months and heard nothing , I did call them and they said they are waiting for a professional to go over my paperwork to see what will happen , it’s all such a long process and waiting game

    I thought because they had left it so long previously they might have speeded things up a bit , turns out not , . Thanks

    For checking on

    Me and

    Ur kind words, thats really lovely of you xx