ESA, ATOS and Decision Makers

Ok, I'm currently in discussion with DWP over my son being placed in WRAG and the outstanding errors in the ATOS medical form. (They cancelled the actual medical)

Did you know that all the medical evidence that the claimant lodges with the ESA 50 is kept back by ATOS and the Decision Maker only gets to see the ATOS medical form and the ESA 50. This is outrageous. What do you think?

when my friend sent her form back last week, she sent a copy of her questionnaire and a copy of the evidence sent to the decision maker at the local benefits office, obviously atos got the orginial but she sent it to the decision maker too. Be interesting to see what happens. Wish you luck if you are appealing, atos ignore all the evidence you send with the questionnaire anyway, but i thought the decision maker had to take eveything into consideration when making a decision or am i wrong. Could that be an arguement then that they did not take the supporting evidence into consideration when making their decision?

It looks like you are wrong, the decision maker I talked to admitted that in my review request letter I had asked him to look at one of my son's diagnosis letters but he did not have access to that letter or any of the 5 that I had sent in but he still refused to change his decision, however now I'm to fax to him all the evidence I originally submitted as he listened to the points I raised about errors in the ATOS report, and a letter from the GP as sadly my son now has a new mental health problem.

Gordon - see my latest response. I was told this by the decision maker dealing with my sons transfer from Incapacity to ESA.

P.s My son has been placed in WRAG and fits 2 if not 3 of the support group descriptors.