Wednesday, April 17, 2019

Easter hols edition



Just getting back in the swing of things as we're off for Easter Hols here not that would ever stop me from engaging in a pillow fight if I had anyone over and certainly after school resumes in our dorm.
The week saw the latest phase in the long running business around the ending of my INDEFINITE Disability Living Allowance claim (never ever trust anything set up by politicians to mean what it says) and having to apply for Personal Independence Payment a kind of the same but different social insurance program to meet the extra costs of being disabled that assumed by raising the bar on how you may be effected by your disabilities you'd reduce the bill but actually has cost more.
Having tried to tell me they had not received my completed form on a letter with a date on a Sunday that no government department works on we now had a letter from an assessment provider in the WRONG region to say they are in the process of either having or going to write to a health specialist you advised them of - for me my own Doctor - for further information which may be a report.
This may prove interesting as on two occasions in connection with the social insurance program called Employment and Support Allowance for being unable to work that report was sufficient to not require me to attend a so-called medical which isn't actually an physical/mental examination of you to see how your conditions affect you but rather to go through a tick box of questions and controversially write any observation about you from the moment you enter the assessment centre such as if you look 'well groomed' or appear to able to carry a shoulder bag and decide on that basis if you could undertake tasks.
Obviously, don't have your hair brushed and make up done!
We shall see how this works out but when they say it could take up to sixteen weeks aka FOUR MONTHS (!!!!) for this to be resolved adding the start date of my claim could potentially take it into FIVE months.
It's amazing to think any one in government seriously thinks this constitutes good practice when it comes to customer service but having seen on the Countryfile program on tv farmers are waiting four years for payments from another department well the mind boggles!

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