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smc wrote:

So people are going to have to attend these interviews regularly(?) despite the fact there is no chance they can work, what a waste of everyone's time and effort.

It is a total waste of money!! I had attended all of my WFI waiting for my appeal and a week before the tribunal i received a call telling me that they were cancelling my claim and placed me into the support group!!! All that money down the drain including the training courses i had been bullied into attending, i wasn't aware of this site until after i was placed into the support group. I was fortunate to get a lot of help from CAB but i so wish i had found this site sooner, even when i did find B&W i was cautious and after reading some of the news etc and the fact you could pay subscription through paypal decided to join, what a godsend it has been!!!

Mm xx

millymoo wrote:

smc wrote:

So people are going to have to attend these interviews regularly(?) despite the fact there is no chance they can work, what a waste of everyone's time and effort.

It is a total waste of money!! I had attended all of my WFI waiting for my appeal and a week before the tribunal i received a call telling me that they were cancelling my claim and placed me into the support group!!! All that money down the drain including the training courses i had been bullied into attending, i wasn't aware of this site until after i was placed into the support group. I was fortunate to get a lot of help from CAB but i so wish i had found this site sooner, even when i did find B&W i was cautious and after reading some of the news etc and the fact you could pay subscription through paypal decided to join, what a godsend it has been!!!

Mm xx

I agree this site is wonderful, I would be lost without it as CAB and WR in my area are awful.

How long were these training courses you had to attend and how often?

When I had my telephone call to announce the start of my "migration" from IB to ESA, I told the lady I was worried about filling in the form because of my complicated medical problems. She said "Don't worry, it's really easy, all you have to do is tick boxes"!!!

She also told me to fill it in as if it were my worst day. I think that was very bad advice. My condition is variable - a "worst" day would be total bedrest, but if I had filled in my ESA50 as if I were like that all the time and somebody official happened to see me on a "best" day, they could claim fraud.

She also said she didn't know how long I would get to fill in the ESA50 - she thought it was at least a fortnight "but it might be a month". (The answer turned out, of course, to be six weeks.) Needless to say I wasn't very impressed by any of this ..... though the lady was very pleasant!

MattyB wrote:

When I had my telephone call to announce the start of my "migration" from IB to ESA, I told the lady I was worried about filling in the form because of my complicated medical problems. She said "Don't worry, it's really easy, all you have to do is tick boxes"!!!

She also told me to fill it in as if it were my worst day. I think that was very bad advice. My condition is variable - a "worst" day would be total bedrest, but if I had filled in my ESA50 as if I were like that all the time and somebody official happened to see me on a "best" day, they could claim fraud.

She also said she didn't know how long I would get to fill in the ESA50 - she thought it was at least a fortnight "but it might be a month". (The answer turned out, of course, to be six weeks.) Needless to say I wasn't very impressed by any of this ..... though the lady was very pleasant!

I know the feeling, my conditions are variable and I never know how I will be one day to the next, actually sometimes one hour to the next.

It is not good they can't answer the questions properly but like you the person who called me was pleasant.

smc wrote:

MattyB wrote:

When I had my telephone call to announce the start of my "migration" from IB to ESA, I told the lady I was worried about filling in the form because of my complicated medical problems. She said "Don't worry, it's really easy, all you have to do is tick boxes"!!!

She also told me to fill it in as if it were my worst day. I think that was very bad advice. My condition is variable - a "worst" day would be total bedrest, but if I had filled in my ESA50 as if I were like that all the time and somebody official happened to see me on a "best" day, they could claim fraud.

She also said she didn't know how long I would get to fill in the ESA50 - she thought it was at least a fortnight "but it might be a month". (The answer turned out, of course, to be six weeks.) Needless to say I wasn't very impressed by any of this ..... though the lady was very pleasant!

I know the feeling, my conditions are variable and I never know how I will be one day to the next, actually sometimes one hour to the next.

It is not good they can't answer the questions properly but like you the person who called me was pleasant.

Being nice to people is I think just as important as giving the right info.

The brain cell count of many at the DWP seems a bit low given the amount of wrong info they give, but hey would you want to work for them these days ? flipping burgers might be a better job ...I work from the postion that the info given could be wrong and needs checking any other postion is just plain daft

Hi SMC

I attended one course that went on over 3 days starting at 0930hrs until approx 3pm it really took its toll on me. On one of these days i spent more time in the toilet than listening to what was going on as i felt so ill. There was a cv half day, a motivation half day and about another 6 or so half days plus all the WFI 6 in total over the space of 12 months. If i am totally honest i didn't really get anything from them as i felt so ill and i was forcing myself to do these as i didn't think i had a choice, but for days after i found myself laid up as i was so exhausted. To be then placed into the support group, well it makes a total mockery of it all.

Hope this is of some help to you

Mm xx