Well everyone I'm afraid to say I'm just another casualty of the DWPs war on punishing the vulnerable .My appeal to the upper tier tribunal was denied ,at the end of the line now ,traumatised by the whole experience and no better off.I hate to think what will happen next I'm border for me to get my benefit,scary and anxious time .I don't understand why a doctor can deem you unfit through illness when the DWP can tell you otherwise ,they are now overriding the doctors decisions and basically saying they know better than the health experts.It's a scandal and nothing short of bullying tactics ,as I have said before it was intended to be a cull to manipulate as many vulnerable people into work whether they were fit enough or not and to get the figures down to make them look good .I can safely say with this government treating it's own people this way I'm no longer proud to be British .I always worked when I could and and through no fault of my own can't sustain a job now through illness so I'm being persecuted for it .Magymay signing off bemused 😕
All for nothing : Well everyone I'm afraid to say I'm... - NRAS
All for nothing
I am very sorry to hear this, I have for the first time received forms to claim, what a minefield. Maybe I will not start the claim
Just go to cab and ask them to help fill it in otherwise you will struggle and you will need all the support you can get , how's the cat ????
Hi, not seen him for two days but he still insists on sleeping on me. The local people say he is a stray. My cottage is now on the market.
Went to see my GP Friday after receiving a lecture from diabetic clinic and asked them what more can I do as I comply with everything asked of me. Just awaiting blood results as I know that they are a mess but I am not doing anything that I should not. They have added angina meds to my list of problems.
I'm so sorry you are in this awful position. I can't offer any practical help but wanted you to know you're not alone. Hugs
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I had a fit note from GP saying it was RA but I said I had a chest infection but HR changed it to chest infection. Soon after this I fit note I was diagnosed with bronchiectasis and told by the respiratory specialist that it maybe due to my RA medication another LTC.
The decision to change my earlier fit note to chest infection was after the diagnosis.
This increased my sickness so I was on the verge of going up to stage 2.
I second Gnarli. Hugs
Absolute disgrace that this Tory Government are getting away with this and have no compassion, do they not understand that we would rather be fit and healthy and working, this country's going down hill rapidly very sorry your having to go through this pain xxx
So sorry...stress that you don't need. Tories are b******s
Hey MagyMay, so sorry to hear you’re being ground into pieces by the system. Not sure how things work in the UK, but in OZ, a trip (or communication via email/twitter) to your MP’s office can often work wonders. Wishing you the bestest, cheers Deb 
I emailed my local MP who didn't have the decency to reply .Reason being they know the system is a shambles but the don't want to tackle it they'd rather sook up to the big guns and keep their fancy lifestyle.The councils in Scotland moan about cuts to their annual purse amount and then fork out £500,000for a statue and then have the audacity to cut free swimming for pensioners and pay off a downs syndrome man who has worked faithfully for 17years and gets £30,it's not an awful lot .priorities are all wrong ,I give up trying to make sense of supposedly learned people trying to run this country .Goodness knows how it will all end up 😟
I hear you about the 500,000 pounds for a statue. But just to show you that in Australia everything is bigger and better - how about $50M (yes million) for a statue? Yep, that’s what our current glorious leader wants to spend on a statue of Captain Cook - to celebrate landing at Botany Bay, and “discovering” Australia. Seriously flawed, given that we haven’t resolved the issues of our indigenous population. $50M would buy them a lot of regional dialysis services. World needs more Dalai Llama and compassion, less politicians and banks - grrrrr!
Can I also suggest, that as your MP didn’t reply, that you escalate it? Do you have an unemployed workers union over there? Surely there is something to help folks who are battling the system?
Hi yanni,I'm afraid it's just a severely flawed system over here ,The majority of Mps and higherarchy are flawed aswell,Does no good bringing unwanted attention to myself ,I've had my fill of it.There are people worse off than me being turned down .If the system makes me go back to work ,I don't know who will employ me or they will.make me do voluntary work to get my benefit money ,but I'm powerless to do anything about it.
Hi Ajay ,don't think I could go through that again ,I'd rather stick pins in my eyes .Putting myself in front if nasty upper class tyrants who have never lived hand to mouth who get off on demeaning you till breaking point,ain't on my list of things to do .I also realised now that the representative on my side was definitely on their side ,she sat by while they tore me to shreds emotional and said nothing .Corrupt to the core ,beware anyone who is currently applying ,it's a nightmare😦
I remember my mother having a home visit years ago from the dhss , she was about to go into hospital. The man and woman asked her if her cases were packed because she was fleeing. I physically removed the male dhss bully from my mothers home
The way my consultants keep prescribing me more meds they are either on commission or work for the dhss and trying to terminate my existence as now I am no longer paying in
Oh an just to say thanks for all your support .I just hope none of you have to endure what I have 😘
Bloody mind blowing. I've just been refused ESA after health assessor states I am fit to work. Even though my condition is rapidly getting worse & with medical evidence from my GP.
When I re-applied for ESA on 22nd May, I had to close my JSA, because obviously you can't claim both benefits, however I was refused ESA on Wednesday, then had to re-apply for JSA, which has resulted in having to wait to sign on, which is not until the 19th June, hence no money whatsoever until hopefully 22nd June. Not received a penny of ESA or housing benefit!!
How the heck they expect you to pay your outgoings, is beyond me, when you haven't got a penny.
Living by myself, trying to keep a roof over my head is a struggle at times, then to be plunged into this position is bloody stressful!! 😬
Sorry I'm ranting away.
I'll shut-up now. 😏
Hi Ruthy I'm bewildered at the lack of common sense these people show ,I mean they have you waiting fofcweeks for your money and then don't back date it and your left with arrears to pay off through their negligence ,crazy crazy crazy ,just aswell fresh air is free poops don't speak too soon ,they may charge for that soon 😵
Hi ruthie, join the club, mine refused too, won't repeat as posted before but what a nightmare. Their assessors seem to know little to nothing about conditions n make it up, my full report is shockingly bad. So sorry yr similar, hugs xxxx
Really awful for you and they wonder why we get stressed.It is unbelievable that a nurse paramedic or OT can make any kind of assessment on a disease they no nothing about.This is where medical staff and organizations like NRAS should step in and support people who are very ill and push to have this degrading system changed or abolished.I sincerely hope all works out for you and all the other people in the same terrible position.Hugs your way.
I've no more options left so my life is definitely in their hands I'm afraid ,beware all you lovelies BIG BROTHER is watching 😱
So sorry you have been treated like this, absolutely awful system. This Government should hang its head in shame and to think the NRAS has our PM as it's patron!!!! Disgraceful. Hope things get better for you soon.
unbelievable.I did not know that.
I know, you couldn't make it up!!
Really think that things could get a lot worse .There are a lot of different societies and organizations but ground level not sure how effective they are.Reading these posts is shocking and saddening in equal measures.
I wish that I could but it would cost me £50 plus for a taxi
I am so sorry magymay: you couldn't have done more, horrible people! I don't know what your full report was like: mine was a pack of lies & fabrications but glad i sent for it as will be v wary in future. Sent complaint and mandatory etc but not expecting much. I cannot believe your mp didn't even reply: they work for us huh? Must be ironic website. I was thinking of that next too 😒 big hugs, what an awful experience xx
Hi Kerena ,yeah two appeals I had to attend after my face to face and then I appealed to upper tier tribunal ,no luck !it's knocked the stuffing out of me so they can do what they like with me but I won't be very Co operative,just as they were with me)😏two can play at that game 😉hope your well😊
I'm not surprised magymay: don't think I could go through that and stay sane, exhausting and stressful - last thing you need with RD! More and more stories like ours on here. Fired off my mandatory and complaint to dwp then escaped to Cornwall for week, lovely and much needed. I wouldn't mind if it was fair assessment but why lie extensively?? I know I meet descriptors and sure you do too. I think the way they treat people is totally discriminatory, tb h, but no idea what to do about it. Take good care of yourself xx
Things aren't what they used to be...
Cold and chest infection
Orencia and Sciensus !
Labrynthitis the invisible illness !!!!!
