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<blockquote data-quote="Max68" data-source="post: 2286484" data-attributes="member: 521172"><p><span style="color: #ff0000">@<a href="https://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/members/jrt.520947/" target="_blank">JRT</a> </span><span style="color: #000000">The DWP are an unsympathetic shambolic group who literally are there just to tick boxes and lord only knows how they are to deal with in this pandemic! I (on top of everything else!) suffer with Bilateral Vestibular Hypofunction, which is basically Vertigo where my inner ear balance organs are - I think the technical term is knackered! - So I have to use just my eyes and my feet to balance. Had several "attacks" over the years lasting up to 8 months where I basically can't walk in a straight line and continuous spinning episodes. Think of the Waltzer in a fairground and that basically happens when I am stationary. Thankfully I found a wonderful consultant in London who fully diagnosed it and I had some rehabilitation done that helped quite a bit until lockdown where I'm pretty wobbly in my head still but it is cope able.</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">However back in late 2015 - 2017 I think, I couldn't work. In a nutshell I had a two year battle with the DWP over Employment and Support Allowance. Rather than try and recover I was constantly battling them. The Health Professional (I use the term loosely) who did my Assessment lied about various things, and I had the assessment recorded!, they accused my GP of lying, they used a GP who was no longer registered as a Medical Professional on the Tribunal Committee so after I found proof of that they rearranged another Tribunal, the whole thing was a shambles of lies and deceit on their part. In my final Tribunal the Judge declared me fit for work, but as she closed her file and turned off her tape recorder she uttered to me "You have my sympathies though as no-one will employ you in your current condition". So I had to apply for Universal Credit where I had to declare I was fit for work which would have been a lie on my part. Even the girl at the Job Centre asked why I was there and I couldn't find work because as soon as you revealed it as a medical condition that was it. I was on UC for 18 months!! I better enter the word <strong>Allegedly </strong>here for the above paragraph!!</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">Thankfully I received a bit of luck when a company rang out of the blue to say I might have been miss old investments years earlier. Wouldn't usually listen to companies like that but I had no choice and surprisingly I received a tidy lump sum that saved me. Was a fair percentage the company took as payment mind you!! The irony being that if I had received the DWP support I could have concentrated on recovery, rather than worry about how I was going to survive and as stress is very high risk with regard to symptoms with their support I would have probably recovered in half the time.</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">Not looking forward to possibly having to deal with them again!! </span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Max68, post: 2286484, member: 521172"] [COLOR=#ff0000]@[URL='https://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/members/jrt.520947/']JRT[/URL] [/COLOR][COLOR=#000000]The DWP are an unsympathetic shambolic group who literally are there just to tick boxes and lord only knows how they are to deal with in this pandemic! I (on top of everything else!) suffer with Bilateral Vestibular Hypofunction, which is basically Vertigo where my inner ear balance organs are - I think the technical term is knackered! - So I have to use just my eyes and my feet to balance. Had several "attacks" over the years lasting up to 8 months where I basically can't walk in a straight line and continuous spinning episodes. Think of the Waltzer in a fairground and that basically happens when I am stationary. Thankfully I found a wonderful consultant in London who fully diagnosed it and I had some rehabilitation done that helped quite a bit until lockdown where I'm pretty wobbly in my head still but it is cope able. However back in late 2015 - 2017 I think, I couldn't work. In a nutshell I had a two year battle with the DWP over Employment and Support Allowance. Rather than try and recover I was constantly battling them. The Health Professional (I use the term loosely) who did my Assessment lied about various things, and I had the assessment recorded!, they accused my GP of lying, they used a GP who was no longer registered as a Medical Professional on the Tribunal Committee so after I found proof of that they rearranged another Tribunal, the whole thing was a shambles of lies and deceit on their part. In my final Tribunal the Judge declared me fit for work, but as she closed her file and turned off her tape recorder she uttered to me "You have my sympathies though as no-one will employ you in your current condition". So I had to apply for Universal Credit where I had to declare I was fit for work which would have been a lie on my part. Even the girl at the Job Centre asked why I was there and I couldn't find work because as soon as you revealed it as a medical condition that was it. I was on UC for 18 months!! I better enter the word [B]Allegedly [/B]here for the above paragraph!! Thankfully I received a bit of luck when a company rang out of the blue to say I might have been miss old investments years earlier. Wouldn't usually listen to companies like that but I had no choice and surprisingly I received a tidy lump sum that saved me. Was a fair percentage the company took as payment mind you!! The irony being that if I had received the DWP support I could have concentrated on recovery, rather than worry about how I was going to survive and as stress is very high risk with regard to symptoms with their support I would have probably recovered in half the time. Not looking forward to possibly having to deal with them again!! [/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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