Reassessments

I feel like people are worrying about this too much and too early. We all knew we'd be reassessed again eventually. We never knew how long it would be. I just don't see how anything positive can come from dwelling on it before the appointment letter/journal message arrives.

My last assessment was in 2018 and was for ESA. The only reason for that one was because of an ignorant GP who wouldn't sign off my ESA forms unless I could get to the GP surgery. The reason I couldn't get to the surgery that time is because he'd played exactly the same game 6 months earlier and caused a huge amount of damage to my health during that event. That time I forced myself to see him and had a horrendous time, hit rush hour traffic, arrived to a packed waiting room as it was flu jab day, and then he didn't seem to know what he was doing or even where the forms were. (They were in a drawer next to him!). This event had a massive impact on my ability to go anywhere for months afterwards, and meant there was no chance of me getting in to the surgery again just 6 months later. Eventually, after having to go through a full WCA at the Job Centre, he told us he'd 'forgotten' my previous visit, which is why he wouldn't sign off the next lot of forms. I still haven't forgotten it nearly a decade later! I now have no idea how I'd manage another WCA, tbh I don't even know what I'd write on the forms as my abilities have changed so much, but still not really in a way that fits the WCA boxes perfectly, and I still don't have any proper diagnoses for neurodiversity or anything. So personally I'm just not thinking about reassessment until it happens. But I am sure it will happen eventually…

Nope. I can't access the health services due to my health conditions. I did make a conscious effort to access many of them again in 2019, but didn't get anywhere with it. Tried again in 2020/21 after getting PIP to pay for private care but found the same accessibility restrictions with private as there was with the NHS so again didn't get anywhere.

I am now on a prescription medication that I wish I'd never started. I don't think it's making any difference, but I can't risk coming off it and creating additional side effects. Again that was caused by a misunderstanding by the GP, it was never the type of treatment I needed or even asked for, but assumed they must know best at the time…

I am sorry to hear to can't get outside at all. Although I'm agoraphobic I have the other type which is basically a severe phobia of being trapped anywhere at any time. So for me, being stuck indoors is almost as bad as being stuck outside. I need to get outside as often as possible to escape indoors and try to get out almost every day, even if for just 10 minutes. But I live upstairs and don't have any private outdoor space so even that is very difficult. I think I would be able to manage my conditions better at a ground floor property with a bit of private garden, but just can't see any realistic way of finding that now, I don't think it'll be long before I can't manage the stairs at all due to worsening vertigo and lack of energy due to many months of calorie deficit this year.

I don't think i have ever been reassessed for ESA, now UC, not in the 15 years I have claimed.

I do remember 2 PIP face to face reassessments.

just have to wait and see

I was assessed by phone this September for old esa , I was put on LCWRA from LCW, due my conditions getting worse. I moved to new style esa and uc late October. Its pip I'm concerned about. Due 2032 . As well as these dreaded uc reviews

It was ok, daughter had a meltdown. Yes I saw a clip on you tube about bank check . Didn't watch it all, sets off anxiety. Yes I wish I could win and be free of them. Sunak started all this .

She has bpd , autism, eptsd . I wish they would just leave us alone . It's hard enough coping with disabilities. Why don't they go for able bodied

Dread to think what pat (turtle head) mcfadden got in store