JUSTICE IS SERVED .. MOSTLY

Well I simply do not believe it.

A number of newspaper reports by The Independent have shown that the DWP and government have to pay back 70,000 disabled people for not paying them benefits?! Jesus .. some good news finally but I will believe it when it happens!

Apparently the reported figure they will have to pay is £340 Million. Yup .. for those that are amoral and do not like the welfare state .. sowwy! Well you have been an idiot and I always said that this was a futile exercise and a complete waste of your tax money, so I have been arguing your .. umm .. arguments. Or points. Well you did not moan about the fact that the government pays tens on millions of pounds each to at least three and maybe four organisations to cheat people. The keyword here that everyone missed that would have made them put s stop to wasting the public's taxes in the first instance is .. cheat. It is also a massive exercise in ignoring the laws as well as any morals .. but I guess that is all OK as long as you are getting what you want? Well do away with laws completely if that was your attitude?! Either have laws or do not have laws, you pays your money you takes your choice!

I am afraid it gets better .. as many might actually get a higher payment than they did previously because I for one got less money than a diabetic friend of mine who admitted that I had more difficulty than him. More frequent then he and whereas he can .. take preventative measures anyone with Fibromyalgia can not. Mostly they can just be careful which does not always work and damn difficult to judge.

I am afraid it gets better still as it also turns out that the government has been found to be discriminatory towards people with mental health problems?!

There is a fucking God!

Ooh the thought of amoral people crying into their cornflakes fills me with joy right now! Well as much joy as I can possibly muster given the circumstances I am faced with.

Now I thought I see a line somewhere that said that the government had put money aside for this? Oh? When did that occur? When they started in case it all went wrong? Or was this a secret plan to cover their arses over their "we are all in it together" crap to state that they always intended to pay us back after we paid for their mistakes?! But I am not sure .. I might be remembering the line wrong?

Now there is just the question of Universal Credit .. I mean .. they now admit that they have been discriminatory towards disabled people so what do they think the Universal Credit has been designed for?! To be FAIR?! I do not fucking think so! Single mothers and unemployed expected to work for 12 pence per hour?! Hmm they might have upped it to 13 pence I am not sure?

Oh and then there is the question of homelessness and the ever inflating rent prices, especially in areas people know and call home .. like my home of London.

Wow this was .. unexpected, I must say.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/disabled-benefits-70000-claimants-owed-thousands-esa-government-error-not-paid-a8264921.html

Government ruled to be discriminatory towards people affected with mental health issues ..

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/benefits-dwp-work-and-pensions-disability-benefits-mental-health-assessment-high-court-scope-a8168496.html

I previously stated that a diabetic friend said that I am worse than he and should get the same higher rate that he gets? After seeing several things but nowhere near everything I have to go through and that was prior to the high blood pressure issues that are not resolved and the heart palpitation issues.

Well guess what? Another story in the Independent about how disabled people were not getting high enough rates ..

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/dwp-benefits-pip-government-admits-too-little-money-support-a8034011.html

THE DWP BALLS-UP

I think I am beginning to understand why the government and the DWP have wasted twice the amount of money running two departments for each of three tiers of benefits.

I am still in one particular limbo I need to be out of and should have been many weeks before now.

That of the current situations with my benefits.

On Thursday I attended the Job Centre and as I walked across the floor I thought I heard the faint sound of my name being called. I turned and my JobCoach was on the far side of the room to where his desk is situated.

I walked over to him and he looked confused and said “Are you meant to be here? I do not remember your name coming up on my list this morning” and I said that I had indeed left my time card at home so could have gotten the time wrong but it was Thursday and we met every Thursday. I told him that our conversation was going to be an interesting one.

He told me to wait and would speak to me after he spoke to another client.

After a wait of around 5 or 10 minutes he called me over. As I sat down he looked at his screen and said “Yeah I can see here they have cancelled the appointment, because your getting Personal Independent Payments”. I told him that I had been called the morning before, or two, and I was told this. I also explained the court paperwork suggesting that PIP had been cancelled, that I had missed an assessment for PIP ust as I had done ESA which was immediately cancelled so thought the same thing would happen and that Claire, the lady who takes your ID's, was informed of all this on the very first meeting and that she checked on her system and it stated I was not getting any benefits at all.

He remembered this and he said “yeah you were right, there has been a major mistake here somewhere and then told me to get a number form downstairs for JSA when I told him that it would not allow me to apply online. The reason being that I was in a Universal credit area.

The funny thing is that the night before I mentioned what had happened on the disability Facebook page for DPAC and I was told quite categorically that I was wrong!

I told them that I was not … that Universal Credit had phoned me and told me four weeks into my UC that they discovered I was still getting PIP and was having my UCC claim cancelled. I also explained that if they tried to claim UC online just a few pages in it asks you if you get PIP and that if you answer 'YES' the application refuses to go any further telling you that you are not eligible.

There was no mistake.

I was at the time feeling tired and run down from all this, which is not good and I have lost my appetite again, but explaining what I did I thought was more than enough? But no and as it got later and I got even more tired there appeared someone else that saw what I had said in my post and told me I was wrong. One person said that “Your wrong, you can claim UC and PIP because PIP is not means-tested!” I told them that I was well aware of this fact and that I had told the lady from UC that called me and she stated It does not matter”.

I have lost count of the times I have found out a fact to do with all this only to be told by members of disability groups that I am wrong. Bloody hell I even had a CAB worker tell me on the phone I was wrong when I told her that my tribunal had no GP nor solicitor on the panel and it was just me and a judge.

It does make me question what in the world all these so-called help groups are bloody well doing?!

Time after time on here I have explained how I have approached help groups previous to starting my blog and not getting anywhere at all, nothing, nada, zip. I have also shown myself approaching help groups since I started my blog and have actually have had more in the way of action but it still came to zero help.

I will be completely honest in that the last half a dozen times I have approached organisations I have asked myself why I would bother. It has even appeared to me that all that they seem to do is help people that cannot understand English fill in forms. In all my visits in the last ten years I have never seen anyone white sitting in the waiting areas and I simply do not know why this is. I cannot be the only white person to be having difficulties in a five mile radius?

But each time I have an excuse to approach them for help I do … because I want to see how long it takes me to actually get help, 12 years so far, and indeed if any single one of them actually helps at all?

Help groups do not actually do anything and campaign groups seem to be clueless to each piece of information I tell them about!

In fact I told CAB three things and in each and every single one of them, in the same phone conversation, they were not only unaware of it but told me that the government was supposed to INFORM THEM of these changes?!

Now either every campaign group and help and advice group out there is a big massive con to get government money or donations to pay them salaries or that all the governments changes they knew were immoral and did not want the campaign groups and help and advice agencies knowing and therefore thwarting their plans?

Just come off the phone to my social worker friend at the appropriate time … as has asked me if I claimed JSA, which I had to do by phone, and I told him that two or three questions in the man asked me if I had a disability, I said 'yes' and my friend laughed and said “Don't tell me … he told you that you can't claim for JSA?!” to which I said 'yes' before he roared with laughter and then when stopped said “This … is … absolutely … RIDICULOUS! Martin … you have got good grounds here to sue them”. I then reminded him that I had contacted the CAB, Mind and Mary Ward Legal about all this.

Yup,, I kid you not and you read that correctly. Chimpanzees could not have set the welfare state up any worse and I am thinking that must have all been drugged up on coke when they came up with these plans?! No bloody wonder we are still paying for two departments for everything two years after the changes were supposed to take place! Oh but remember … they all deserve a pay rise!

After answering yes four times I then had to answer no to having a disability, at least they cannot use the recording against me lol, to stop him putting me through to ESA who cancelled my IB and refused//ignored two application forms I sent in. The one that was IGNORED was sent via recorded delivery too! SO they are fecked there!

Of course YET ANOTHER major balls up is that you can get PIP and JSA at the same time but with Universal Credit, JSA's intended replacement, you cannot.

AND THESE PEOPLE think they are intelligent?! Jesus H. Christ!

Nice that my friend would say that about me having a chance to sue them but as I said … well after my tribunal you certainly could not rely on HMCTS! He said no you would have to go to a 'proper' court and I said that I hoped that they would.

But you have to understand that I have never had any help at all from anyone … quite literally most of my adult life. I keep approaching and asking but I will only ever believe it and have any confidence at all the day that someone actually tells me they are going to help.

What I suppose is very funny, in a twisted way, about all this is that I have helped … a fair few over the years. From little helping hands here and there to very major things saving many, many lives.

Reciprocation is a word that is not in many people's vocabulary within the UK from my own personal experience.

I have to also remember rthat when I go to Mind I must tell the counsellor that I have forgotten once again to put in y repeat prescription, even though I use a computer to do it. This is because I explained again I was seeking help with my memory and when she asked what I explained how I forget things three days in a row. I used the going to Sainsburys for milk scenario and she said “Oh I do that” and I said “what three days in a row?!” and then told her about the time I got off a bus in Enfield Town and did not know where I was for about 30 seconds. That was very … peculiar.

No what I have done is forget to put in my repeat prescription, as I was turned down my request for pills at my last GP appointment as it was too early, and have run out of Propranalol. I now wont get any until Monday so what I did was not take the very last pill. I will take it tomorrow,, Saturday, in the hope that I can miss Sunday without any major withdrawal symptoms. I have not even read the leaflet to see if it does cause withdrawal symptoms. Barely had time to think along with forgetting to do things anyway.

I also did not remember I need to get credit so I can get my Internet back up as I have no Internet at the time of writing. So this should go up tonight, Friday, if I remember?!

So I am stuck indoors right now and bloody well bored out of my mind while wondering what in the hell is going to happen over the next 6 weeks.

There is also the matter of my rent now being late for the second time in three months and I have had no word, though I cannot access my emails currently, from Enfield Council.

Enfield Council have now had three emails and other than an automated acknowledgement email I have had nothing said to me about this. Other than being contacted to say my money was being cancelled from Universal Credit.

There is also the option of the so-called Independent Case Examiners of the DWP who claim to be 'independent' but curiously have their emails going through the DWP's servers. But … I do not trust them one bit. Speaking from experience as well as where their emails go.

I wonder if they remember me ripping shit out of them for doing nothing and for where their emails go? If so I wonder if they are looking at what Hillary Clinton is accused of in the news media and saying to themselves “Oooh that is why that guy ripped us apart and was suspicious of us!” I doubt it.

BEFORE THE WIND BLOWS

Well I had my ... interview.

That dreaded interview with the Universal credit people.

I am sure they are going to try and kill me? It went a lot smoother than I imagined but I was somewhat shocked by some of the ... rules.

That is that you have to spend 35 hours a week actively searching for a job?! My bloody god I probably spend that amount of time, or at least I have, bringing back shopping! I would have to give up sleep! Oh yeah. I do not sleep brilliant any way!

There was something that I wanted to divulge here and that was that I explained everything that had happened and I explained, at least in part, about my disability.

As to the first one and the fact that I have now handed in not one but TWO Employment Support forms I told them I did not know what the feck was going on and I did not want to be accused of fraud by the DWP later on! As I may have mentioned I recently asked the ESA in an email what the feck happened to my second application. I received no reply.

It gets weirder as just to make sure the nice lady I spoke to checked on her system using my national insurance number to see if there was anything there and what did it say?

I AM RECEIVING NOTHING!

Umm ... but wait a moment. Technically I am still receiving PIPs and I have not had any letter stating that it is going to cease and of course they need to tell me ... 'WHEN?!

It gets weirder still...

It turns out that your housing is not paid via the council but via Universal Credit. What?!

So I not long ago sorted out my rent payments and now ... umm ... something may happen? Again?!

What a god awful mess the DWP is and in all honesty I find it impossible to believe that this much incompetence is going on.

Three benefits stopped, two applications go missing, the Citizen's Advice make stupid cock-ups so I have no representation, no General Practitioner present at the hearing, the Employment Support Allowance treated by the judge as if it was PIPs and demanding my phone off me?!

All that happening in one go to one person and I am supposed to believe it is all mere coincidence?!

Pull the other one, it has bells on it!

What was the most interesting is that when I stated to my interviewer that I had a disability he did not bat an eyelid. This could only mean one of two things ...

They already knew I had a disability, despite having medical documents I was not asked to show them anything at all.

Or they already knew to expect, or already have some, get a lot of disabled people through their doors?

Also the rules to Universal Credit seem unfair and ... if I am honest nowhere near realistic and yet the paperwork is riddled with reasons to take over £10 per day off your benefits. When I saw the amount I thought ... umm do you even PAY people £10 per day?! It looked like you might end up owing THEM money if you did not play by the rules.

What was laughable was when I stated that eight years beforehand and registered disabled at the time I came in to ask about help for starting my own business and he says, "Oh we do that now"?! Bloody marvellous. He photocopies the leaflet as he only has one and tonight I get to read it ...

Umm ... caled the New Enterprise Allowance and you get ... umm ... a weekly amount of £65 from the commencement of trading for weeks 1 through 13.

Hang on ... didn't the other documentations state that if you do something wrong they can take £10.70 each day off your money? That is £74.90 over a week. I think someone needs to go out and purchase an abacus? They obviously do not know where the Calculator app is on Windows!

Weeks 14 through 26 that drops to £33 per week!

Oh and you can get a low-cost loan. well, that's nice!

There was me thinking that you could get full support for a year and a grant. But no. They give limited support in an age where they have fucked up the economy and no one has the first clue as to when it will end and it has been like this for well over 6 or 7 years!

Did this people ever go to school? If they did they certainly had no classes on maths nor economy!

Yeah so my new business idea ends up not working because they fecked the economy and cannot even tell us when it will end and I end up with some bank or other chasing me for money again for the next ten years?! Yeah you can shove that where the sun does not shine!

So their idea to improve the economy is to stand behind the poor, unemployed (yeah like there are any jobs) and the disabled with their proverbial whips while conning them out of their money?

Was funny when I was told that if and when I got a job part time, as that is all I can do, they only taje 65p back for every £1.00 you earn. So I am going to earn 35 pence an hour, lol.

It used to be that you could earn a certain amount before they start taking percentages from you now you get slave labour.

The interviewer was a bit shocked when I explained I had a BSc Degree in Computing ... come to think of it I do not know if he was shocked that I had one or shocked that I forgot to mention it until 30 minutes into the interview? Maybe both?

I have had no answer from the Citizen's Advice either so I have emailed them again and the fact that the JobCentre have confirmed that there is no application for ESA for me going on and asked them to explain themselves.

They told me to put the claim in and they refused to take it, oh did I forget about that bit? Then they told me to post it and the ESA lost it. They sent me another application and that one has gone missing. That is three attempts to put in an application.

1. Refused
2. Lost
3. SILENCE!

Stunning.

I told two friends that I feel like I am being set up to be convicted of fraud.

I have been driven to apply for Universal Credit while everyone has gone silent. I said that I bet that a month into Universal Credit I get told I am being prosecuted for fraud as my ESA has gone through?!

Well they will get a wee bit of a surprise of they try to do that.

If I thought there was any chance I was being set up I would prepare for it so that it can NEVER possibly happen. I would have to be a complete moron not to have thought I was being set up, even before the third attempt to apply for ESA went awry.

I could span the last 14 years and not have these many errors and things going on as have done in the last couple of months. FOURTEEN YEARS!

BLUNDER BUS OF CORRUPTION

The Employment Support Allowance have been deliberately fecking me around.

I have sent in two applications just as I was instructed to do. The first one was sent via recorded delivery but they somehow managed to lose it.

I had a phone-call apologising and they then emailed me apologising and they sent me another application form with a pre-paid first class envelope.

The apology email is dated the 7th September and I called the next day and the application arrived the following postal day, I think the phone-call was a Thursday and it arrived Saturday I think. I then posted it Monday. Which would have been the 11th September 2016 and today is the 6th October 2016 and I have heard nothing. That was the SECOND application I sent off!

So today I have to go to a meeting for Universal Credit, which itself takes six weeks I now find out, because ... well I have no choice.

This was a bit short notice, the Universal credit people called me when my mother was here two days ago. They they rang me at 9am yesterday morning when I was otherwise indisposed, lol. I then visited my social worker friend and we went to Watford to pick up a clam shell. A real one and the whole time I thought that the UC, or JobCentre, would call again but they did not.

Then I got home yesterday and at some point in the evening I decided to check my emails and would you believe that I had an email from the JobCentre asking me to not only bet there the following morning at 10.30am but I had a bloody list of stuff to bring with me, including an up to date CV?! I had not updated my CV in bloody years and could not even find the damn thing. I managed to find a version of it altered to create one for someone else. I then spent an hour messing around with that as it would not display properly when I uploaded it to their site! *SIGH* I wish things did not sen me into such an excruciating panic mode.

I emailed the ESA on 29th September asking them if they had received the second application and if they are processing it and I have heard nothing at all.

How many applications are you supposed to fill in and send in and email them about before they are expected to get it right?! I would email their ICE Ombudsman but they are a waste of space too!

My very last PIP payment I am expecting to arrive either in two weeks time or six weeks time and as that is the second of the two benefits to have been cancelled I am up shit creek without a paddle.

Losing 60% of your money is not good enough for the 'we are in it together' brigade. No less than 100% is what they have gone for. Despite my various attempts to prevent this via British law they are managing to succeed.

Now I am hoping that this is going to go well and it is not going to be someone that takes no nitice and just stands behind you with a bloody whip.

I was told yesterday by someone that there sister is disabled and she was forced to do this for a bit and that the person she spoke to at the JobCentre was actually helpful which was a little encouraging. A little encouraging because it is the first time I have ever heard of anyone at a JobCentre being helpful and ... well the person helped was a woman.

It occurred to me as I woke up with an anxiety attack that I may not have posted up the emails?



EMAILS ...


29/09/2016 18:44

Dear Graeme Vine

***********

I have sent in another application and it feels like it was some time ago now, I have short term memory blanks and cannot recall certain things most days.

I have a tribunal hearing tomorrow that I have had several breakdowns over and I do not know why this is,, though it is part of my condition. So keeping on top of other things has been hard, especially as HM Court & Tribunal Service have sent me five letters, stating in three the appeal is for ESA and in two others insisting the appeal is for PIPs.

Somewhat weird as I was asked to travel 22 miles to Brentwood for assessment for PIPs while this was going on.

Because of this I suspect my PIP will be cancelled too and yet another court case will start up but in the meantime if there is no ESA, or everything is rigged and I lose and have to claim Universal Credit then there is going to be a period of several weeks, to my reckoning, that I will be without money altogether?

If you have no managed to lose a second application this will make things much worse for me and the period of time without any money for food a lot longer.

I phoned the number you gave me and I was sent an application form with a first class pre-paid envelope so I thought I would have received an acknowledgement before now?

Either that or I am losing track of time worse than I thought

Yours sincerely

Martin Haswell BSc

From: Vine Graeme JCP ESA BASILDON
Sent: 07 September 2016 16:44
To: **********
Subject: FW: Employment and Support Allowance

Dear Mr Haswell,

Further to our telephone conversation today,

I am very sorry that your original claim form has been mislaid.

Please call 0800 0556688 where a telephony agent will be able to take your details and forward your claim directly to this office.

The agent will ask you a variety of questions, including details of your incapacity and any medical certification that you have been provided with.

I understand that you wish to backdate your claim to ESA; provided that you have medical certification for any backdated period, this will be considered for the three months prior to the date you call the contact centre.

With the loss of your original documents, I will also consider any entitlement back to 8 April (three months before the date of your receipt), provided your medical certification covers this.

Please quote my name if this will help support your claim to benefit once received at this office.

Yours sincerely,

Graeme Vine | Employment and Support Allowance New Claims Team Leader | Department for Work and Pensions | Basildon Service Centre | Great Oaks House | Great Oaks | Basildon | SS14 1JE |

01268 634649 | www.gov.uk

Dear Graeme Vine

Sorry I am not sure why I did not hear the phone and missed your call?

I sent in a claim form just as the Citizen’s Advice requested me to do.

Attached is a copy of the recorded delivery receipt of the letter.

In all honesty this has been absolutely ludicrous and I have been in an out of Doctors and hospitals and still have this ongoing for the next few weeks and months, over things caused by the DWP and things outside of the DWP’s actions.

My IB gets stopped, this is going to curt now and while that goes to court I have had my rent payments stopped though now agreed to restart them and now it is open season on my PIP claim too, so I guess that will get stopped, another Mandatory Reconsideration and another appeal will be ongoing wasting the taxpayers money?

Attached is the receipt from the recorded delivery of said ESA application that I did because the attack on me has been so intense and wide that I just figured my claim would get ... let us say ‘lost’?

Yours

Martin Haswell BSc

Sent from Mail for Windows 10

_____________________________________________
From: Vine Graeme JCP ESA BASILDON
Sent: 06 September 2016 13:12
To: ******************
Subject: Employment and Support Allowance

Dear Mr Haswell,

Thank you for your recent correspondence regarding your claim to Employment and Support Allowance (ESA).

I am sorry for the difficulties you have encountered; your email was sent through from Stratford benefit Centre to Basildon, who are now processing claims in your postcode area.

I attempted to contact you at approximately 12.50 today (Tuesday) but unfortunately I was unable to speak to you.

I have been unable to establish a claim to ESA on our systems. Could you please confirm if you:

Rang our national claims line (0800 0556688) to make a claim; if so what date was this? If your claim was taken over the phone, were you provided with a reference number (starting with 1-). If you have any other details regarding this, please advise.

If you completed a clerical ESA claim form, approximately when was this?

I have been unable to trace a clerical or phone-based claim form; I am concerned that  you have been attempting to resolve your entitlement issues without success.

My number is 01268 634649 should you wish to call me directly.

Thank you,

Graeme Vine

Graeme Vine | Employment and Support Allowance New Claims Team Leader | Department for Work and Pensions | Basildon Service Centre | Great Oaks House | Great Oaks | Basildon | SS14 1JE |

01268 634649 | www.gov.uk

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