Assessment centres
Assessment centres
I was sent an appointment for an assessment centre which is a 70-mile round trip from my home, when it turns out that there is an assessment centre in my home city. The appointment gave written directions how to get there by public transport. I did wonder if it had been sent as a test to see if I could make the journey and if so I clearly have no mobility problems and my claim can be turned down! This would also show I have no difficulties in following a route to an unfamiliar place, can travel for 3 hours by public transport can walk 500 yards from the station and read the sign on the door that says Capita Assessment! Well I have it from a very reliable source, that this is infact the case and these letters are sent to catch people out! The letters have no mention of home assessments and give the impression that you have no option other than to go where you are told to. My informant also tells me that the interview rooms are carefully measured to be 50 metres from the front door so if someone claims they cannot walk this far, yet are sitting infront of the Healthcare Professional, its Nil Points for mobility.
Just bear this in mind if you are going through the assessment process.
MissKittyB.
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thank you, why do they have to such dirty tricks.
I suppose because its a "Well Known Fact" thay everyone putting a claim who isnt in a coma and has all four limbs, in is a chancer, too lazy to work, happy to sponge off the taxpayer and so must be weeded out for the benefit of society as a whole. (Notwithstanding the fact that we almost certainly have been taxpayers for many years in the hope that when our time came, we would be looked after by whatever shade of government was in.).
Having said that, my spy tells a tale of a claimant who was wheeled into an assessment. The HCP was writing up the mobility report afterwards and just glancing out of the window, saw the person sprinting like Usain Bolt across the carpark to catch a bus!
Hey Ho!
MissKittyB.
Well! I am unsurprised after all I have witnessed this year from the DWP, ATOS, and Capita, but how very interesting to have it from a reliable source.
However, if they use how you are at the assessment as the only reason to refuse you they will have (and they do frequently) broken the law, and the DWPs own rules state that a 'snapshot' at a particular time on a particular day is not an adequate assessment.
The whole thing is an unspeakable sham paid for by us..... How interesting to discover that we have financially invested in a system that routinely commits fraud against us!
H.
I thought that you would like this!
I suspect the idea is to ' encourage ' people to give up at that point and not go through to the review/ reconsideration process. at which stage the decisions are often overturned.
MissKittyB.
How well you know me!
And I am sure you are right, and then of course refusal at reconsideration stage means a sick person having to have the drive, energy, time, etc etc...... oh yes, and courage and confidence, to go to tribunal. And if they have all of these and are able to read up everything they need to, then, and only then, they have a chance of presenting their case so as to win what they were entitled to in the first place and would have been given if ATOS/Capita and the DWP actually........... Now, what was that thing decent citizens who have paid into the system expect...... Oh yes, I remember now.......COMPLY WITH THE LAW AND APPLY THEIR OWN RULES!
H