Published on 12, July, 2020
My daughter is 25 years old Diagnosed with Autism Just before she reached 18.
She gets PIP with mobility (as she can't travel without guidance)
She is on Work related ESA and has to go to meetings with a work coach.
As yet she has never worked - long story but she has many issues going back to early childhood.
She finds the meetings at the Job Centre very distressing (too many People, Too much noise ETC) and put simply cannot always manage to do this.
I have a LPA for Finance & Property as she's dreadful with finances.
What I'd like to know is would the DWP accept this and allow me to act on her behalf in regards to her work coach meetings.
I've tried contacting the DWP ESA but I either get cut of or I am on hold for what seems like forever.
Thanks in Advance.
So let me preface this by saying this is not legal advice. However the duty to make reasonable adjustments does apply to the DWP and the way they handle you and make you do your job searching (if in fact you have to do job searching).
reasonable adjustments that you could consider asking for might include meetings scheduled at special quiet times. Remote meetings via video call, meetings where you attend with her, and less frequent meetings.
if you were going to make such a request probably the best way to do it would be in writing rather than over the phone. civil servants tend to get much more diligent about checking their facts and making sure they’re operating within the rules when they know a paper trail is being left behind.