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Autism, Employment and Universal Credit

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Hi my name is Alan i i have just been diagnosed with level2 autism.

i have been unemployed since the beginning of the pandemic, and am on universal credit.

A job program forced me to take a job working from home for a call centre, and have been quickly overwhelmed by the job
and dread it. i want to leave the job, but am worried i will be sanction by universal credit for leaving a paid job.

i had the assessment back in October, and didn't receive the diagnosis until after i had taken the job.

my main question is will i be sanction or will they consider it justified because of this diagnosis and the way it triggers my autism?

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  • They will sanction you. The disability employment advisors are as bad as decision maker at The DWP and they may step in and force you back onto an poorly manged employment scheme in return for you keeping your benefits. 

    What employment programme have you been on because i have so far had same experience with The Shawtrust, Nova, & YMCA training,

  • in reply to Blue

    ah i been on loads myself, the worst one i had was a local one called "work solutions". i had this old guy who treated me like a criminal and hated me. kept threatening me saying he can get me kicked off benefits and he is in control not even giving a reason, saying he can just ring in and get me removed from benefits without even a reason. also kept treating me like a child too despite being a adult and threatening to tell my parents all sort of *** about me in some odd attempt at blackmail too lmao which is funny because im a adult and theyd have found that weird and theyd probably have gave him *** for that. still got to me though, i guess he kept doing *** like that perhaps because maybe it gave away a effect on my face, dunno, i always consider my face emotionless, but if it does infact show emotion then i get very emotional so it could have shown perhaps which then could have made him feel he has a effect.... although its a bit careless of them because when you push me to max of emotions i generally want to harm the person that caused it, he was walking a tight rope with me. if i did emotionally break id have harmed him right there and then in order to overlap the pathetic emotions with less pathetic violence and anger.

  • in reply to Caelus

    I emphasize with you.

    I was sent by my job centre advisor to an organisation called Reed in partnership.  I was told that these people 'get results.'

    There, we were told to lie about our health, experience, qualifications etc.  Everything, just to find employment and to get us off benefits.

    I asked my Reed advisor, what happens if I end up in a job that I'm totally unsuitable for and unable to do?  Her reply was, 'That's somebody else's problem'.

    They did help me find a job, after five months I was sacked for being unsuitable and not disclosing my health problems on my original  application.

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  • in reply to Caelus

    I emphasize with you.

    I was sent by my job centre advisor to an organisation called Reed in partnership.  I was told that these people 'get results.'

    There, we were told to lie about our health, experience, qualifications etc.  Everything, just to find employment and to get us off benefits.

    I asked my Reed advisor, what happens if I end up in a job that I'm totally unsuitable for and unable to do?  Her reply was, 'That's somebody else's problem'.

    They did help me find a job, after five months I was sacked for being unsuitable and not disclosing my health problems on my original  application.

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