Face to face assessment for Attendance Allowance!!!
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You are all probably aware of the many difficulties I have had with the DWP over the past 20 odd years.
As a final throw of the dice I applied for Attendance Allowance about 2 weeks ago and received a letter over the weekend that an assessor (doctor!!) is coming to our home to investigate and determine if I have enough needs of the right type and duration to qualify.
From reading up about these home assessments, more people don't have them than do - so that makes me feel extremely special!!. So they must think that I am in with a chance otherwise they would give a flat - no award decision.
Two days to go and I'm champing at the bit so to speak - just waiting for them to arrive all psyched up and ready to do battle for the last time.
Will keep you all informed
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pollmadoll64 les59996
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anthony97723 pollmadoll64
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les59996 anthony97723
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I couldn't agree with you more!
?At every turn I have always had problems with them, but enough is enough. The only thing that they ever got right was my State Pension. The amount was right and it has been paid without fail.
?I once had them (the Pension Service) tell me when they suspended a Pension Credit claim in October 2010 that it wasn't a 'suspension' but more a case of their computer 'restricting' my award after I challenged their decision in not carrying out the tests and checks that must be carried out before any suspension is activated.
pollmadoll64 les59996
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les59996 pollmadoll64
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That is where I have let myself down many times - believing that the system does actually work.
?It would have been different if I had sent the two letters to PIP by recorded delivery. As it was I couldn't prove anything as I just put a stamp on them, posted them and expected them to be delivered.
It's a shame that the country has got so bad that you now have to prove everything. Whatever happened with what people told you, you just accepted it as the truth? I cannot ever remember using recorded delivery over the past 68 years.
?When I was a kid we had a farm way out in the Ribble Valley of Lancashire. I was sent once a week to the top of our lane to put the envelope in the 18" x 7" little red post box that was nailed to a wooden post in the hedge. It contained a cheque and the football pool form for the following Saturday. To suggest that there was a need to send it by recorded delivery would have been laughed at.