Thanks she was on incapacity due to low white blood cell count (can't find out why) so struggles to fight infection. She had to give up her job in children's care group because of this, then had skin cancer 3 times.They did similar to my mum, despite me working for that benefit and us writing the form out shaped by their points system at the time.
The appeal took a year after I found the phone number of the ESA benefits manager at the time, spoke with her, sent her all the documents and said that I’d go to the media if it wasn't successful.
She’d been on Incapacity Benefit since an accident in work in 1983, but put in the work group of ESA.
She was successful, but she died 6 months later. I left the civil service soon afterwards.
The real shame is that disabled people tend to play down their issues, where this system requires them to amplify them as much as possible.
Hope your sister gets the money she deserves and that her diagnosis is the best it can be. People don’t understand the stress of going through an appeal. It’s horrendous. I’m truly sorry that you’ve had to go through this.
Good luckI'm broken, my sister who is my rock had 2nd appointment with consultant re dementia/Alzheimer's. Her memory is shocking and struggling on a daily basis. He suspects might be some form of brain cancer and sending her for a PET scan.
Benefits office have cut her benefits as deemed fit for work. We've been battling with them for over a year and got an appeal on 29th February.
I would love to see private healthcare banished from the UK , then we might see our health service suddenly improve If the elite started to suffer!Cancer waiting times in 2023 worst on record in England.
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Who is actually paying for Charlies treatment in a private hospital?
If he's there on his own dime, then I have no problem with it at all, but if it's the taxpayer, then he should stand in the queue like everybody else.
The rich would simply get their treatment overseas, and the top surgeons and consultants would move overseas as well, thus depriving the NHS of their services.I would love to see private healthcare banished from the UK , then we might see our health service suddenly improve If the elite started to suffer!
It shouldn't be banished. But private healthcare should be exactly that, private and paid for through ones own means. Not with taxpayer's money. The rules should be the same for everybody.I would love to see private healthcare banished from the UK , then we might see our health service suddenly improve If the elite started to suffer!