Thursday, 7 August 2014

Work Focused Interviews

Today it's about work focused interviews, in just over 4 years I have had 3, yes just 3 WFI's, that's one for every assessment for ESA, they were split over 2 assessments periods, with none for the present period.
The first one with A4e (All 4 Emma) was in 2010 I slept through most of that, the woman said I should be in support group, but thinking they could go the other way I didn't bother appealing as I thought it wasn't worth it for just over £5 a week, besides I had over £400 every 4 weeks DLA I was giving my car up because of fits and stokes I had while in hospital.
For the first one my daughter was with me and they could see I was out of it as I entered, they still took 25 minutes with the interview just to pass the time and get paid.

that was it until 2 years had passed when I was given 12 months in WRAG, again, on the same day I got 3 letters from the DWP, I didn't know which to open first so I opened the middle one, it was for the WFI, I knew straight away I was in one of the 2 groups, next it was award letter which stated the 12 months and contacting me again ON OR AFTER A DATE it confirmed I was in WRAG again, the final letter was how much I would get and a breakdown of it into its various components.

End of July 2012 and I attend the WFI to be told after waiting 10 minutes past the appointment time the person has had to leave due to a family emergency, probably saw I would be recording him, which I was, this quickly turned from a WFI into a maternity benefits claim for my pregnant daughter. Then in December I received another WFI letter with a different person this interview lasted only a few minutes saying to appeal for support group next time and she wrote on the appointment letter for my son to contact her with my mobile number, he never saw this I binned it as soon as I got home.

So there you have it my 3 brushes with death at the hands of the DWP. With my last ESA50 I did send the first one back blank, because they sent it to me after 10 months so they got the blank form back with a copy of the ESA72 page 2 that clearly stated WE WILL CONTACT YOU AGAIN ON OR AFTER [DATE] So with the time it took them to ask to send me another form about 1 month had passed and I returned the form to ATOS as late as possible, since July 2013 I haven't been bothered by the DWP for WFI's.
Just goes to show that if you are prepared to stand up to these vindictive cunts they buckle and cave in.

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