overandunder2012 Posted April 1, 2014 Author Report Share Posted April 1, 2014 (edited) Check DWP web site for backlog times we have an o/s claim for our terminally ill son and it says 105 days. On phoning them we are told 'don't worry the benefit will still be paid even if he dies in the meantime....' So if you really needed that cash what do you do, take out a payday loan?? remember were all in it together well i didnt know much about this but from what some of the members say here its shocking behavior. Edited April 1, 2014 by overandunder2012 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phaedra1106 Posted April 1, 2014 Report Share Posted April 1, 2014 Thee terminally ill are the only group that are being assessed and given their benefit/s properly (usually under 90 days) as they fall under "the special rules". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
norfolk dumpling Posted April 5, 2014 Report Share Posted April 5, 2014 Don't believe it - son terminally ill but Atos just wrote a whole load of ******** re additional medical reports etc but when wife rang DWP to complain/explain they have everything they need except a full coffin she was told ok we will get a positive response in a few days and ignore Atos!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
88b Posted April 5, 2014 Report Share Posted April 5, 2014 (edited) Check DWP web site for backlog times we have an o/s claim for our terminally ill son and it says 105 days. On phoning them we are told 'don't worry the benefit will still be paid even if he dies in the meantime....' So if you really needed that cash what do you do, take out a payday loan?? In 2000 I had basically that, I was so ill I couldn't leave the house but they made us go to a meeting and told us to get a loan against shares my wife had but couldn't sell for two years. Also told don't worry if your house is repossessed we will find you a place in a hostel. Edited April 5, 2014 by 88b Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rustybucket Posted April 5, 2014 Report Share Posted April 5, 2014 And to top it all off my ESA has now been stopped as I've been claiming for 52 weeks and since I haven't had an assessment and put into a group I've had my benefit stopped, I've had my assessment fast tracked but that can still take up to 3 months! Off to see my mp in a few hours as apparently he's proactive with the dwp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
overandunder2012 Posted April 5, 2014 Author Report Share Posted April 5, 2014 (edited) i had no idea this was so bad dont you just love the powers that be, disgraceful were all in it together dave . any party got in the manifesto to abolish this behavior i would suggest voting for them whoever they are if your disabled, really do find this shocking Edited April 5, 2014 by overandunder2012 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
norfolk dumpling Posted April 6, 2014 Report Share Posted April 6, 2014 Atos have just written to us asking for all the paperwork we have already supplied and saying he needs to be assessed - letter was dated 1/4(?). Wife rang DWP who have electronic copies of all our file including new stuff relating to cancer and it seems this will all be concluded satisfactorily in the next few days. Atos should not have said what they said at all. Seems they have a mindset of delay at all costs and hope it will go away BUT we are real people with real problems needing real help. Wasn't this was our welfare system was supposed to be all about?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phaedra1106 Posted April 6, 2014 Report Share Posted April 6, 2014 (edited) Wasn't this was our welfare system was supposed to be all about?? You're getting confused with the country we used to live in where the disabled, sick and elderly were treated with some respect and looked after. Nowadays we're just the easiest target for the government and especially those who like to bash anyone on benefits and assume we're all lying scroungers with nothing wrong with us. Hope you get sorted soon, we've gone through 8 years of getting fobbed off and ignored by SCD, the NHS Trust and the DWP. It took a formal complaint to get any action and even now over 2 years later we still get almost no help at all. Edited April 6, 2014 by phaedra1106 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
truflex Posted April 6, 2014 Report Share Posted April 6, 2014 (edited) You're getting confused with the country we used to live in where the disabled, sick and elderly were treated with some respect and looked after. Nowadays we're just the easiest target for the government and especially those who like to bash anyone on benefits and assume we're all lying scroungers with nothing wrong with us. Hope you get sorted soon, we've gone through 8 years of getting fobbed off and ignored by SCD, the NHS Trust and the DWP. It took a formal complaint to get any action and even now over 2 years later we still get almost no help at all. I take it your on benefits then? Nice collections of guns you have going there. Edited April 6, 2014 by truflex Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phaedra1106 Posted April 6, 2014 Report Share Posted April 6, 2014 (edited) And your point is? No don't bother, let me guess, my son and I are "on benefits" so we are scrounging off the system and we've obviously got too much money if we can afford to have a hobby like shooting. As it happens I was in a car accident and the insurance paid for the guns, most of them were bought cheaply used. Neither of us smoke, drink, waste money on scratch cards etc. or go out apart from shooting once or maybe twice a month if I can manage to get there. It's my sons only social activity, finding something that an Autistic young adult will actively engage in which involves social contact with others is not an easy task, as it happens shooting is the one thing he actually wants to do. I was medically written off in 2001 and told I'd never work again, most days I can't even manage to get out of the house let alone go anywhere. My life now consists of looking after my son, nobody else will do it. I'm certainly not looking for sympathy or anything else, I'm his parent and this is what parents are supposed to do. Edited April 6, 2014 by phaedra1106 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordon R Posted April 6, 2014 Report Share Posted April 6, 2014 truflex - crass point - badly made. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hawkfanz Posted April 6, 2014 Report Share Posted April 6, 2014 I went for an Atos interview and could only wear one prosthetic leg ,( I have 2 ) at the start of the interview the woman told me she was a nurse ,half way through I needed a no 2 so went to the toilet in a wheelchair .After finishing I pulled the emergency cord in the toilet ,the receptionist came and asked if every thing was ok ?which I replied "no please fetch the nurse I need a hand to get clean" turns out she was no nurse and I had to wait 20 min for the district nurse to come from the local medical practice down the road to help . After returning to the interview they still found me fit for work . This was only rescinded at tribunal Sergeant Deershooter Rtd I,m like you deershooter lost my left leg over 40years ago,had a full workin life had an hgv licience,have now got arthritis in good leg an hips,got confirmed with prostrate cancer and then while waiting for mri scan to see if it had spread anywere else the nurse who did the interview deemed I was for for work,without even waiting for any results,,good riddance I say. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
truflex Posted April 6, 2014 Report Share Posted April 6, 2014 Some people should be grateful there is a benefits system in this country. How do people in countries where there is no such system survive? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deershooter Posted April 6, 2014 Report Share Posted April 6, 2014 Some people should be grateful there is a benefits system in this country. How do people in countries where there is no such system survive? Just looked through 4 pages of your posts doesn't even appear you are interested in shooting just belittling every one who is disabled In fact you are possibly a troll What you are is a keyboard warrior Do you use a shot gun or a rifle yes a proper one not an airgun Deershooter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
truflex Posted April 6, 2014 Report Share Posted April 6, 2014 (edited) Yes. You want to see them? Edited April 6, 2014 by truflex Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shaun4860 Posted April 6, 2014 Report Share Posted April 6, 2014 I take it your on benefits then? Nice collections of guns you have going there. I think you need to hope you never need any help off the benefits system, You come across as a very angry bitter person Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deershooter Posted April 6, 2014 Report Share Posted April 6, 2014 I think you need to hope you never need any help off the benefits system, You come across as a very angry bitter person Thank you Shaun Deershooter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saddler Posted April 6, 2014 Report Share Posted April 6, 2014 Some people should be grateful there is a benefits system in this country. How do people in countries where there is no such system survive? Good point, well put!! Bring back enforced euthanasia for those deemed not fit to work & able or unwilling to make a contribution to the Reich, oops, I mean State... Queue on the left for you chaps, straight into the showers....no problems then, should make truflex happy...(a possible job vacancy he may wish to apply for too! Double whammy!!) Err - and YOUR point is WHAT EXACTLY? What's the relevance of foreign countries domestic policies in a discussion on UK benefits? I seem to recall that the Koran deems the disabled as a section of society that MUST be taken care of by those more able...and those that don't support them are deemed as unfit. Maybe there are similar passages in the Bible...who'd ever know about that as a source of moral guidance in this day & age? WE DO live in a country where those unable to work ARE supposed to be looked after by the State. The PROBLEM is NOT with the disabled, it's that the system in place to administer their welfare is NOT FIT FOR PURPOSE, nor has been for a long time. Maybe the UK Gov't would be less concerned with taking from those in society least able to afford it, if they clamped down on some of the bigger expenses that are ****£d away by Gov't departments: maybe by finally TAXING such firms as Amazon & the many others that don't pay UK TAX; by stopping the influx of foreign claimants who see the UK as a free bank & a place to move to for a free house & enough benefits to let them live in luxury (esp. compared to some of living conditions in their home countries); and by killing off the Westminster expenses & salary fiasco - give all MP's the same annual pay as their constituents/or the average national earnings - whichever is the lower.... The UK Gov't has a long history of such treatment though - and I don't expect to see any changes in my lifetime. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
overandunder2012 Posted April 6, 2014 Author Report Share Posted April 6, 2014 (edited) Some people should be grateful there is a benefits system in this country. How do people in countries where there is no such system survive? they dont or at best very badly which is why we have sickness benefit or whatever they call it Edited April 6, 2014 by overandunder2012 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
truflex Posted April 6, 2014 Report Share Posted April 6, 2014 they dont or at best very badly which is why we have sickness benefit or whatever they call it And cope they do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welsh1 Posted April 6, 2014 Report Share Posted April 6, 2014 And cope they do. And some cannot cope and deserve our help and compassion. http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/disabled-mark-wood-starved-death-3194250 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
truflex Posted April 6, 2014 Report Share Posted April 6, 2014 And some cannot cope and deserve our help and compassion. http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/disabled-mark-wood-starved-death-3194250 Shame on his friends and family. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welsh1 Posted April 6, 2014 Report Share Posted April 6, 2014 Shame on his friends and family. Shame http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/disabled-mark-wood-starved-death-3194250 http://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/10887890.Friends__funeral_appeal_for_disabled_man_who_died_after_his_benefits_were_stopped/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
truflex Posted April 6, 2014 Report Share Posted April 6, 2014 Shame http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/disabled-mark-wood-starved-death-3194250 http://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/10887890.Friends__funeral_appeal_for_disabled_man_who_died_after_his_benefits_were_stopped/ Emmmm he died of natural causes. Keep searching. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welsh1 Posted April 6, 2014 Report Share Posted April 6, 2014 Emmmm he died of natural causes. Keep searching. They all died of natural causes,their hearts stopped. Compassion is the thing, without it we are a society in decline.what sort of society are we if we cannot look after our vulnerable members. “I’ve known him for more than 20 years and he was almost like an uncle to my children. He was a guy who wanted to stand on his own two feet, but was reliant on food parcels and goodwill from friends by the end.” Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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