hi folks
I know what i am like .And what i can do .And how much i can do .

but on the news they say those on incapacpaty benfit will have to have a check .

On the tv they showed someone checking someone .It was mad .
bend here bend there i can do all that ......

i look fine i am moblie and ative .So what are they going to say to me when i have to have a check ????????
FIT FOR WORK ........!!!!!
YEAP Well i would have the sack with in the week as i can not keep up .I look fine but i am slow .
i had to give a job up when all this was coming on as i was being told off all the time .
but before i had worked there 3 years with no promlem .I now know it was the R.A AND slceroderma rearing its head .


i can see them taking it off me and telling me i am fit for work ha ha


christine

Is anyone else worried

Well Rich
i look very well i walk very well i am very moblie .

I can do these things but without a rest i am useless .

if i worked 4 hour shift i know rest of day would be on sofa and tried the next morning ,


i know my capablities one week off work i would be off sick .
come off the MTX also i would be off sick .

i help my friend with her perants in there 90s but had it when i come home .
do red cross work vol had it when come home .


So me being employed ????? If the worse and they took me off .I would either just be a housewife or go self employed .with my own hours .


But i would pass there tests .Unless i took my self of MTX and go back to square one .


christine

Hi Christine and Rich, I am also on IB for the last seven years and am worried about the assessment. After a previous tribunal for dla i know how stressful these things can be. It is the attitude of the people assessing me that worries me after the tribunal i had. I worry that they will not take into account fatigue and anxiety as well as physical limitations. It's ok in theory to go back to work very part time, but it's other employees attitudes to our limitations that are difficult to deal with i have found.

Bevxx

Hi Jenni

I think but I hope I'm wrong, that every one on Incapacity Benefit will re assessed. Initially it will be a paper assessment providing details of health condition and supporting evidence. This will be looked at and if they need more information they will do a face to face assessment. I understood that I was on it indefinitely (likewise for DLA); I've been on Invalidity Benefit, which then became Incapacity Benefit, from the time I was medically retired from the Civil Service in 1990! If they now decide I'm fit for work I want my £50K (at current rates) job back as it was their decision to take it off me because I was not deemed fit enough to work! Somehow I think I'm dreaming!

http://www.dwp.gov.uk/do...-customer-factsheet.pdf

I also have a letter telling me I'm on DLA for life! Hmm ... I'm very confused

Lyn x

lynn
I had a letter saying i had dla for 3 years . But at time i was poorley when i got it .Hubby used to walk me in a chair if we were out and about .

but MTX worked and i had a spot check and they took it of me .So life might not mean life

christine

letter will be useless if they spot check and find you very well and improved

chris

hi Lynn
Interesting .But when they took me off DLA i was left on it a good few weeks its not right away .As you have met me i look ok .Untill you see me trying to keep up or trying to lift something or doing somthing .Which now i can do loads at my own pace .

Well in a way i would rather not have DLA as i felt i was being watched .And questions asked where was i yesterday .And where were my splints .

Luckey the day before the man called my hubby said she is swimming and my splints where in the kitchen .I was doing hydro .

the reason so much better ha ha . Would rather not claim DlA if i can walk .But when i got Dla I was poorley and got give the forms from the job centre interview ,
If the MTX did not work i would be in a state .
I am dreading the imcapctiy check i am very moblie but working would be a other matter as i know too much and back to being poorley .
i am lucky we live within our means .So if i lost it .We would cope .

But if i have to have a check for imcompacty they might find me quite well and able ,But an employers point of view no they would not employ me .
and if they did i would last the week .And also they would have to watch what they gave me to do .So no employer would not employ me .And i live in the mersy of MTX WORKING .

i would work for my self if i got took of IB Also i have my retairment date now .( i have paid 37 yrs stamp ) the job centre ( a kind lady ) said well we don,t have many in here that have worked that long i am going not push you into looking for work ( last interview saying i could work and get ib )

Funny enough still get asked to work .though red cross vol work ha ha
CHRISTINE