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DWP is ridiculous!!

grahame22

I'm currently awaiting a tribunal to try and get my ESA reinstated after it was terminated a few months ago by DWP following a medical assessment. When you appeal against the DWP's decision, they are supposed to then provide you with basic rate ESA payments whilst you await the tribunal, but so far I have received nothing. So yesterday I summoned up the courage to phone them and ask why I have been recieving no money, and their reason is absurd!

Apparently to get my money, I need to first provide them with medical evidence that I 'still' have ASD! And then I'll have to routinely provide additional evidence to prove that my condition hasn't gone away if I want to continue to receive ESA whilst awaiting the tribunal. 

Is this some sort of joke? Is this normal procedure? It really feels like I'm having my future decided by people who have no clue and it doesn't seem fair or right.

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    NAS20054 said:

    To treat vulnerable people in this manner is what I call unjust, immoral, disgusting, evil, scandalous, and that is just the start. 

    I'm not sure what's worse, the people who orchestrated such a ghastly scheme, mostly to use disabled people as a scapegoat for failings elsewhere, or the mainstream press, the majority of whom cheered it on and joined in with the vilification; about the best we've been able to expect is them turning a blind eye to these awful abuses.

    I'm left wondering what on earth has happened to my country.

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    NAS20054 said:

    To treat vulnerable people in this manner is what I call unjust, immoral, disgusting, evil, scandalous, and that is just the start. 

    I'm not sure what's worse, the people who orchestrated such a ghastly scheme, mostly to use disabled people as a scapegoat for failings elsewhere, or the mainstream press, the majority of whom cheered it on and joined in with the vilification; about the best we've been able to expect is them turning a blind eye to these awful abuses.

    I'm left wondering what on earth has happened to my country.

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