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Diabetic wins Covid Case.

I wonder if it's enough to set a precedent?
 
It's doesnt quite make sense ,or is it me? She isolated for two weeks because she was vulnerable but then wanted to go back just as lock down was starting. Was that when she realised she wasnt shielded? Sadly it seems to come down to fact she was signed off for two weeks by GP,went back to work and was sacked due to walking out of job. Regardless she had a sick note whether for diabetes or something else. If she hadn't it may have had a different outcome.
 
It'a actually called a Fit note, it was changed, probably down to the introduction of Universal Credit, being sick doesn't seem PC any more.

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Workers who are off sick for longer than seven days will from now on receive so-called fit notes instead of sick notes from their GPs.

Doctors will still be able to say someone is not fit for work, but they will also be able to spell out aspects of jobs workers can still perform.

The onus will be on employers to help staff return to work in some capacity.
 
JRT said:
It's doesnt quite make sense ,or is it me? She isolated for two weeks because she was vulnerable but then wanted to go back just as lock down was starting. Was that when she realised she wasnt shielded? Sadly it seems to come down to fact she was signed off for two weeks by GP,went back to work and was sacked due to walking out of job. Regardless she had a sick note whether for diabetes or something else. If she hadn't it may have had a different outcome.
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the way I read it, she went home to Shield at the beginning - back when everyone assumed that diabetics were in the shielding group.
Then when she discovered she wasn’t in the shielding group, she tried to go back to work - and was dismissed.

The section about being signed off fits with a few ppl who posted here on the forum. Several posts talked about being signed off by the doc for a while. Some docs were just as confused as their patients back then! And if her doc told her to stay home, she would have followed that over her boss demanding that she come back to work.
 
Being advised to isolate due to vulnerability and being signs off are not necessarily the same. This lady may well have assumed or understood she would receive "the letter", but, as experienced here, that didn't necessarily happen.

Like so much reported in the press, we have just enough information to allow us to make assumptions that may or not be correct.
 
There is quite an ambiguity in how you need a fit-note depending on what you are claiming. If it is covid related, you do not need a fit-note.
But you still claim universal credit and you get a payment depending on how long you isolate or in hospital.
At the moment if it is only universal credit you do not need to send a fit-note, you keep them until asked for them.
If you are claiming the new ESA payment, you send a photo of your fit-note to them, the same for other benefits depending on your circumstances.
Universal credit is designed to confuse and be difficult to get the benefits you are entitled to. The new system means you must deal with not only your local job centre, but depending on your benefit claims, many centres around the country. There are strict protocols on how you claim and if anything is not completely honest, you are liable to be without any money at all, the message I see most of is if anything in your circumstances change you must inform them immediately.
There is a six weeks wait for any money, and you, now if married have a joint claim and journal details to log.
I had to fill in a health report assessment form, if I needed to have an assessment done for my claim, it was very intrusive and and very thick, mainly due to having to explain diagnosis and having other conditions, I also had to send reports from my doctor and my endocrinologist.
I have had no appointment yet!
My universal credit coach is very thorough and has the questions and experience with people who have anxiety and depression. However those from around the other centres are not so understanding.
Because of my anxiety, the experience of trying to claim has been totally horrible, I had to have help from one of the family who has experience with claims.
The system is flawed and confusing, I would believe that the system is for helping people who have fallen into hard times or has become too ill to work and of course the old and disabled. The impression is that the system is designed to not help you get what you are entitled to.
 
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