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7 years 5 months ago #172036 by Nigel
Face to face assessment was created by Nigel
Be warned about these DWP tricks to defraud you of a valid claim! My assessing health care professional brought my assessment to an end by saying it was finished and that I could leave. However, she then pointed out that there had been no examinations of my limb mobility and asked me if I wanted to do them. I didn't answer, so she repeated that "offer". I replied that I wanted to go home, so she let me go without requiring me to have the examinations. In her report, she lied about this, claiming I had twice declined to be examined. The decision maker used her lies to refuse me any points.

Again, the assessing health care professional played a similar trick when she saw me looking at the eye test chart. Without stopping typing, she asked me if I could read the top letter on the chart, so I replied "Yes. It's A." She made no answer and carried on typing. Being cautious, I asked her if she wanted me to carry on reading down the chart, to which she replied "No." But In her report, she falsely claimed I had declined to have my eye-sight examined, and again, the decision maker used that lie to refuse me any points.

Generally speaking, the write up from the DWP refusing my ESA claim was a mush of lies, some of which took the form of half truth, which can be just as deceptive as direct lies. The fact of the DWP's deliberate lying to defraud me of my claim has caused me the most severe blow to my mental stability including the return of panic attacks from which I believed I had been entirely cured some years ago.

As I had not been a subscriber to Benefits and Work.co.uk when I made my ESA claim or took my Work Capability Assessment, I did not have its assistance, but I signed up as soon as I came to know of its existence. This site helped me to realise that my misgivings about the DWP were well-founded, gave me an insight into the complexities of the benefit rules and to be aware of the problems one faces at the appeal stage.

In the event, I stormed out of the appeal because the tribunal office had accepted the case I had filed but had never informed me that the tribunal could not give me the particular remedy I had specified. Fortunately, my conduct led the tribunal to believe I was as mentally sick as I claimed in my questionnaire, and that gave them grounds to uphold my appeal. However, it is not something I would recommend to other appellants. From my experience, it is vital that victims of the DWP's benefit scam do not lose faith in themselves nor that things will be put right, somehow. Do not hurt yourself, because the DWP will clap their hands with glee, saying that's one less mouth to feed.
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