hi all as most of you will have heard the government have in there penny pinching exploits decided its time to pick on some of the most needy people in society those like myself and tina who through no fault of our own have been unable to work tina as some of you know was until recently wheelchair bound and i have been listed as her carer for 7 years in this time we been on dla which now is being reassessed and called personal independence payment it involves an even bigger form multi pages of medical questions and is not easy to correctly fill in yourself,
so i made an appointment with citizens advice who filled in the form and then advised me to send it either recorded delivery or signed for which we did and i have the receipt here,well the reason he told us that is because if you go through all the trouble of completing the massive form and send it back in the envelope provided they simply wait till the expiry time of your application and then send a letter saying that due to you failing to return the form and relevant info they have now canceled your claim,ow and if your car is mobilty scheme they want it returned straight away or if you get tax paid they want you to go pay for it! so also ensure you have photocopy of the entire form before sending it!
so i did spend a while on the phone this morning and after being told they had not received the form i told them it was sent signed for and gave the details from the post office website she went of came back and low and behold had found our form and now its in a pile being sent for medical assesment,this is a joke as last time the med centre was in central brighton up 5 huge stairs and disabled access is locked,well half of it is one door open so not wide enough for a wheelchair! but get this next to it is 2 steps and a ramp above which is cctv,so if you climb out of your chaIr and do the steps and ramp you have just failed the assesment and not even entered the building yet!so peeps if you in the same boat do be careful,crafty bastards now.
peace