Attending medical with no questionnaire

If appointments are booked by computer in advance of questionnaires being returned that means that nobody actually reads the questionnaires to decide whether a Medical Assessment is even necessary.

As some groups are automatically exempt, does that mean that many people are going to Medical Assessments that might not have had to?

I had a 3 week extension that goes to the middle of next week and the Medical Assessment is the week after. As there is no note on the system giving my extension at all I might as well buy myself some additional time there to make sure the questionnaire is really complete.

I would like to send a copy to my local JobCentre but nobody seems to know where it is now. I live in Surrey. The last letter in May saying my benefit was changing came from Newcastle, the one prior to that earlier this year came from Crawley (who were my local JobCentre for the last few years) and everybody I spoke to over the last few days said that IB for my area is being handled by Glasgow. To make it worse, they cannot give me a phone number or email for them. I am waiting for additional letters of support to come through, which will still take a few weeks, but won't know where to send them after I have sent off my questionnaire to ATOS.

I have spoken to so many miserable, unmotivated confused DWP staff over the last few days and I only feel the same. They are being so sidelined by ATOS now.

At the risk of worrying you further, it is really important that you confirm with ATOS that your return date for the ESA50 has been extended. We had a case last week where the claim was closed under similar circumstances for a failure to return the form, and are still waiting to hear if the member has been able to get their claim re-instated.

You should have received a letter from the DWP at the start of the transfer, notifying you that you were being moved, this should have the necessary contact information.

marcali

The medical assessments are booked by computer automatically, often in advance of the ESA50 being returned, even when it is on time, so you should not read too much into one being arranged.