appointment for wrag

HI
sorry if this is a duplicate question
got the brown envelope for my interview at the jobcentreplus next week.
I suffer from panic attacks, anxiety and social phobia. I am at my wits end cause on the form it says it takes an hour (!!!)
how on earth am I going to do this when I cant even sit with my own family without having a panic attack and that leaving my drained. Do I have to go ?
also as anybody been to one of these interviews, what happens?

scared

clio wrote:

HI
sorry if this is a duplicate question
got the brown envelope for my interview at the jobcentreplus next week.
I suffer from panic attacks, anxiety and social phobia. I am at my wits end cause on the form it says it takes an hour (!!!)
how on earth am I going to do this when I cant even sit with my own family without having a panic attack and that leaving my drained. Do I have to go ?
also as anybody been to one of these interviews, what happens?

scared

Firstly clio,

If you feel that you should have been put in the Support Group, rather than WRAG, have you thought of appealing.

Any appeal must be done within a month of receipt of the adverse decision.

Failing that, do you have a CPN, carer, friend or relative that can attend with you?, as this is allowed.

Your G.P. or CPN can assist you in a request to suspend the WFI, but there is no guarantee they will agree.

You can also request that WFI is done over the phone.

If none of the above, and you fail to attend, they can impose sanctions.

One positive, if you could actually manage to attend, is that they may get to see how badly your condition affects you, and defer further WFI's.

Hope this helps.

bro58

hi
my letter stated I go onto esafrom ib from 4.8.11 does that mean thats the date I take it from and I have a month to appeal ie 4.9.11 or from the date I got phone call from to say I was in wrag 18.7.11

clio wrote:

hi
my letter stated I go onto esafrom ib from 4.8.11 does that mean thats the date I take it from and I have a month to appeal ie 4.9.11 or from the date I got phone call from to say I was in wrag 18.7.11

Clio,

Was the first letter of 4/8/11, the initial letter, ie, "the benefit you are receiving is changing".

OR

Have you had a face to face assessment, and that letter is as a result of that.

If the phone call is the only confirmation that you have been put in WRAG, then you have a month from when you receive actual written notification.

cheers

bro58