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welfare benefits advise

NAS67641

hi just looking on advise

As family member going through pip reveiw and the DWP have denied a request made under the equality act 2010 reasonable adjustments for paperbased descion for family member who has autism and severe mental health probelms which impact on them so profoundly they cant comply to telephone assessment due to the severe distress and trauma and harm it will cause them .

Also they have no clue how their autism etc profoundly impacts on them or the risks that their disabilties cause them for example will say can do such a thing fine as doesnt under that they are at risk doing it etc as they have no realistic understanding of how their disabilties severely impact on them. They will also agree to things said to them even though they have no idea what they have agreed too

They also not got the mental capability to handle own affairs so have an appointee

The dwp know full well how profoundly their autism and mental health probelms impacts on them .And they still denied request for reasonable adjustments and the DWP also know the appointee and representive cant be with our family member and this in the DWP own rules means the consulation/assessment is not meant to go a head.

Yet the DWP even knowing all this and knowing it wil cause our family member suffering trauma pain and harm and cause them to severely deterite is still going a head with the telephone assessment /consulation

we just looking for welfare benefits advise and welcome advise and support in this as if its not hard enough for those with autism with covid 19

they then are treated unfairly and caused more suffering pain trauma by DWP not having no clue about autism etc

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  • Only advice I can think to give is don't fall into traps they set trying to get you to downplay your difficulties. When asked about something, always tell them how it would be on a really bad day because they're basically assessing if someone can cope with ordinary life. And a really bad day can undo someone's life a lot, so it's important to get over how bad things can be, how difficult things can get. 

  • in reply to Roswell

    thanks for your advise yes they are sneaky

    And theres no way our family member can comply to their telephone assessment due to the prfound way their autism impacts on them and their severe mental health probelms

    we have been advised by the dwp refusing a request made under the equality act 2010 reasonable adjustments for a paper based assessment/descion so that they are not caused suffering trauma harm and pain and deteriation by being forced through telephone assessment/consulation which will be a traumatic ordeal for them.

    shows that the dwp are failing in their duty as this breaks the law  and is disability discrimanation as it put our family member at an unfair disadvantage as they cant comply to the dwp assessment because of how profoundly their autism and mental health disabilities impact on them.

  • in reply to NAS67641

    I'm out of my depth here, I know the Citizens' Advice Bureau are often recommended for helping with benefit claims, they can give free legal advice. It could be worth seeing their GP too and telling them all this and asking them to write a letter to the DWP.

  • in reply to Roswell

    thanks for your advise and kind words just being on here helps by lovely people like you being understanding and kind and helpful it feels very isolating and very traumatic for us at the mo not just because of covid 19 but because of the nightmare we are going through by untrained asd services discrimation/neglect in the care sector and with DWP

    we have rung nas they said they couldnt offer any welfare advise so this was why we posted on here

    there use to be an amazing lady that use to give advise for NAS called pan jane owen she has helped many times in the past and rules and laws she knows about the benefit system was amazing yet dont think shes part of NAS welfare advise any more

  • in reply to NAS67641

    It is awful how people are treated by them. Good luck with the Citzens' Advice Bureau and the solicitor.  I wonder if the NAS can help at all, as well? I would hope so.

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  • in reply to Roswell

    thanks for your advise and kind words just being on here helps by lovely people like you being understanding and kind and helpful it feels very isolating and very traumatic for us at the mo not just because of covid 19 but because of the nightmare we are going through by untrained asd services discrimation/neglect in the care sector and with DWP

    we have rung nas they said they couldnt offer any welfare advise so this was why we posted on here

    there use to be an amazing lady that use to give advise for NAS called pan jane owen she has helped many times in the past and rules and laws she knows about the benefit system was amazing yet dont think shes part of NAS welfare advise any more