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This is a real problem with the DWP at the moment. You have people who are terminally ill and severely disabled, who according to DWP procedure should be exempt from the work capability assessment, being forced to fill in questionnaires and turn up for medical exams. This isn't because them DWP are following procedure, it's because DWP have ****ed up and either lost, or are unwilling to find, paperwork, so they classify people wrongly. There are even cases of people dying without receiving a penny of the (potentially thousands) in benefits they were entitled to because the DWP took months to process their claim.
I have first hand experience of this, I sent a form to one department in the DWP and another department claims they cannot possibly contact them or locate the form so I need to fax it to them. I've done that twice and they claim not to have received it both times. I'm sending it again by recorded delivery and I'm making a formal complaint as being terminally ill I don't really need the hassle, which is why I didn't bother to apply for the benefit at all until someone from DWP turned up and filled the forms in while assuring me that none of this would happen. I don't need the money and I'm quite happy to go without it if it means they will go away, but they won't even do that. It's as if their job is to harass people who really don't need it.
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This is a real problem with the DWP at the moment. You have people who are terminally ill and severely disabled, who according to DWP procedure should be exempt from the work capability assessment, being forced to fill in questionnaires and turn up for medical exams. This isn't because them DWP are following procedure, it's because DWP have ****ed up and either lost, or are unwilling to find, paperwork, so they classify people wrongly. There are even cases of people dying without receiving a penny of the (potentially thousands) in benefits they were entitled to because the DWP took months to process their claim.
I have first hand experience of this, I sent a form to one department in the DWP and another department claims they cannot possibly contact them or locate the form so I need to fax it to them. I've done that twice and they claim not to have received it both times. I'm sending it again by recorded delivery and I'm making a formal complaint as being terminally ill I don't really need the hassle, which is why I didn't bother to apply for the benefit at all until someone from DWP turned up and filled the forms in while assuring me that none of this would happen. I don't need the money and I'm quite happy to go without it if it means they will go away, but they won't even do that. It's as if their job is to harass people who really don't need it.
There was a segment on Radio 4's PM yesterday about the screw-ups in payments to terminally-ill people. It'll be on iPlayer; it was about 45 minutes in.
When you apply for "Employment and Support Allowance" the form runs to about 20 pages, some of which are for supplying details of other benefits that are administered by the same department using the same reference number you gave them on page one. One wonders what sort of records they are keeping.
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