Re: Personal Capabiltiy Assessment
- From: Chrissy <cverity.spencer@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 09 Sep 2007 00:46:21 -0700
On Sep 8, 2:48 pm, the....@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Hello people,
I thought I'd share my experiences of my medical assessment in July,
as I today had a letter telling me I scored insufficient points for
them to continue giving me Incapacity Benefit (due to my long-standing
depression before and after a breakdown). The letter mentions that I
can write back to the office who made that decision by writing to the
address at the top of the letter. There is no address, just a blank
space. The assessment was a bit of a joke in itself. The first time
they booked me in they double-booked me and had to phone on the
morning to ask me not to turn up. The doctor I eventually saw a few
weeks later rushed through it in a matter of 15 minutes or so, and
only stuck to asking the list of questions in front of him; he made no
effort to get to know me to find a bit more than the short answers he
seemed to want. Looking at the "Coping with pressure" and "Interaction
with people" part of the letter, there are several questions on there
which I know I wasn't asked by this doctor, and all have been ticked
"no", where had I been asked them, I'd have answered "yes" to them.
But many of the questions can't simply be answered by a simple "yes"
or "no". Depending on how I feel, I could answer both "yes" and "no"
for a few of them, and despite putting this across to this doctor, it
looks like he interpreted all that as simple "nos".
At least they gave me the contact details of those CLS Direct people,
so I'll see if I can get any joy out of them, but I suppose I'll have
to go down the JCP offices to pick up the GL24 and ask them to whom
I'm meant to write as they forgot/couldn't be bothered to write that
on the letter. I hate going down there as they're hostile to people
with mental health problems -- I've found that out from personal
experience, as they told me, quite brusquely and rudely, when I asked
them for advice on how someone in my situation would look for a job,
that they didn't deal with people like me.
R
Hi, have you got a local CAB or DIAL ?, they will be able to help you
fill in the form properly, but there may be a substantial waiting list
for help with filling in th eform because they are a voluntary
organisation & it's free; they will be able to tell you how you can
appeal against the decision & since there is no address at the top of
the page, I think you should ask the JC where you send the appeal to &
they should be able to fax it off for you after you have had help (not
available from JC) filling it in. Get them to write the addressdown &
sign & date it if possible, just in case there is a query later, about
where you've sent the appeal to. Also when the JC fax the appeal for
you, get them to write on it -where it's been faxed to & sign/date
this.
I don't know the particular form, that the Dr filled in for you (or in
your case 'didn't fill in' might be more accurate) but I know that
benefit forms, especially when you have a mental disability, have to
be answered carefully, with someone asking you questions around the
actual question on the form, to tease out the accurate situation.
In fairness to the Job Centre, they aren't allowed to try to help, in
case they mislead you I think; I found the people at my local JC very
nice.
Good luck with the appeal, if there is a date by which you have to
appeal & you can't get help with filling in the form befor that date,
it's possible to get the date changed so the appeal period is
extended.
Chrissy
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