TV Licensing

If like me you don't have a TV License then if you must watch the TV license free make your room free from people looking in as you possibly can, shut the curtains, close the living room door if the TV could be seen from the open door.
If you should mistakenly open the door to a goon and they say those hallowed words, "Are you the homeowner?" Just shut the door without reply and if they try the handle as you shut it pull the door open step outside and tell them to fuck off or you will do what you would do when you opened the door after they tried to stop you shutting the door smash their face in.
Because he tried the door he has tried to gain entry and therefore you would be within your right to use reasonable force to stop them. If he climbed in through an open window then saw you watching live TV it could be debatable as to whether it was illegal entry, I would say it isn't but a judge might side with the goon.

Netflix or Amazon are an alternative to paying the paedophile service for their content both Amazon and Netflix are cheaper than the BBC at £5.99 a month each or both for the year are £143.76 clearly cheaper than the BBC
The BBC, if you talk to them usually start off with are you the homeowner, I would say NO because I rent the place, so start with that if you rent, they can say I saw a TV through your window and it was flickering! No they cannot if you have the curtains closed and every point you could view the TV from, then how could they see it and flickering could be a DVD.
If by any chance they ask you to sign an A4 piece of paper don't it's a TVL178 and says you have watched the TV without a license and that will usually mean a court appearance.
If that has happened you should get a letter telling you the date of the summons and time, occasionally you person never receives the summons but receives a letter that they have been fined £XXX, if this happens contact the CEO of Capita for TVL and ask for a watermarked copy of said court appearance date with proof of postage and receipt. They cannot prove either, perhaps the printer was out of toner, so the fine should be scrapped as you had no notice of a court appearance.
If bailiffs turn up tell them you have a dispute with TVL as you never received a letter to tell you of a date for the court appearance. If TVL reply show them a copy of the email or letter, but don't let them in, they will start listing things to take to auction to be sold and they might start with your PC. If you show them either the court document you have about the intended case you are bringing against TVL or a letter/email saying they posted it on a date and you should have received it on or about the second date, but do inform TVL you are taking them to court they might just shit themselves and wipe the case and try again either with the same evidence or new goon visits.Bailiffs won't want to be added as an accessory so they will sometimes leave the person alone, they may even inform TVL that the person is taking them to court so their one year free TV LICENSE won't be any use so always hit them for cash and costs.

Just a reminder of the points to goon visits and court appearances:

1. If a goon knocks don't answer the door, make sure doors and windows are locked.
2. If answered as soon as they say "Are you the home owner?" shut the door, ideally shut it as soon as the first word is said then it's closed by the time they finish.
3. If you do answer the door don't sign anything, if you do even if they say "it's only to confirm I have called." Tell them to fuck off, it's a TVL178 saying you were watching live TV
4. If you get a court appearance letter, plead "NOT GUILTY" useless you were watching live TV of course.
5. On pleading "NOT GUILTY" ask what program it is claimed you were watching and at what time of day! Make a note of the time of day a goon visits if you speak to them.this could be vital if they say it was 15.35 and he was watching ITV4 and they were watching mission impossible if you have the date and time ask if they can prove this program was on ITV4 at 15.30 if not they have lost the case.
6. If you just get a letter that you were fined £XXX pounds and never got a letter use ceomail.com to get the CEO of TVL and ask him to send you a watermarked copy of the letter with proof of postage and receipt, impossible as they don't rely on proofs they think once in the post you get it.
7. On reply from them if they say they sent it on a date and you should have received it on a date fill out county court papers and file a claim against TVL. Not only did you not receive the letter but the goon probably lied like fuck in the report, to bring the case to court.
8. If bailiffs arrive don't open the door put a copy,not the original, of any paperwork from them and yourself through the letter box and tell them they can keep them as they aren't the originals, just copies.Also say if they want to be an accessory to this miscarriage of justice then you will add them to the court papers and also claim compensation from them for trying to, or actually removing goods to be sold and will be seeking the price of  new goods to replace them quoting out of pocket expenses, you might not get the out of pocket expense part just the price depending on the age of the goods sold.

I have been to court once over TV License and I put a 22" monitor down and said "Find the fucking aerial connection for that?" Case dropped, I sent the CEO an email telling him the goons were writing fraudulent reports to get  cases to court.

I said if anyone else wasn't watching TV when the goons came plead not guilty half of them then pleaded not guilty and their cases were also dropped. so a bad day in court for TVL that Tuesday morning in 2008.Bet those that pleaded guilty got higher fines to make up for the cases that they dropped because of me.

I was actually playing FIFA 08 on the XBOX when a goon turned up and told him it was a monitor only and refused to sign the paper he claimed to say it was to say he had been to the property. 

    

Outfox the Market disputing readings

Outfox the market are disputing meter readings for my final bill, this is despite me taking the first reading off my Smart Meter In
Home Display which was previously supplied by British Gas, I was on their free time tariff and took the reading off the total In Home Display (IHD) as this only displayed the total.

For the first 3 months I never got a bill, even though they said billing was monthly, when I contacted them my first month was £255 then following months were £42 and £47 respectively. I had done nothing to get a first months bill of £255 so complained, OFTM were basically saying it must be, that was until July 2018 when the person I spoke to at customer service said to press 9 on the meter, only I didn't have a keypad on the meter, so he said press button B and to email him the readings from the meter.

I eventually work out how this thing called a Smart Meter worked and that after going through it I got three readings, ACT 1, ACT 2 and the TOTAL reading. I email this person and give them the three readings. I thought even they could not get it wrong now, how wrong I was they put in the free time reading as the reading on the reading, they take the meaning of IDIOT to a whole new level. 

For a few months I put in the free time readings but tell them they have the readings wrong as according to the British Gas the opening reading should be 7906 and all bills should be calculated from the ACT 1 reading, but no they still used the ACT 2 reading but the ACT 1 reading for the bills and payments.If they added the free time units then I don't know.

This company should not be selling gas and electric if they don't know every supplier is offering their utility and how someone switching to their service might be effected with all the different free time or reduced rates on offer at certain times, why not just the total and that's it all this smart meter shit is too confusing for most people.

The FUCK UP that's outfox the market

At the beginning of the year, 2018, I moved energy supplier from British Gas (BG) to Outfox The Market. The price they quoted for electric and gas made it too good an offer to turn down, even though I could have waited 6 weeks and switched free of charge as I would be within the leaving period where they are not supposed to charge customers, but the prices seemed too good to miss out on. As I was on the free time package, even I couldn't believe the quote they gave £32.07
I moved on the 4/1/18, paying BG £40 for the privilege of leaving them. Move on to 2/2/18 I send in my meter reading from the IHD I put them in and press send they aren't accepted, I think little of it. I didn't get a bill and no money went out of the on-line account but on the 4th another £32.07 went out of the bank account and my utility account went up to £64.14 and the same the following month no bill and the utility account went up to £96.21. At the end of March I am a bit annoyed so go onto the web chat and contact them, 10 minutes later someone answers, in the end he takes the meter reads and that's when it started. I should have known when he asked when the reading was taken and I told him the first one was at 09:15 on the day of the move, he then said they would sort out the bills and that's when I got the shock of the first bill a week later, the best part of £260 for January.
I start emailing them and eventually a few months later I find that I should have given the ACT ! reading, that's if I had known how to access all the meter readings. I am eventually told how to get the readings by pressing button B then scrolling through but this is July and I been with them 7 months. In that time I have been told my opening reading was 7906 and not the 9776 I gave when I contacted them that is how I ended up with a £260 bill that should have been for about £37, I get the readings put right but it doesn't last long as I have put in a meter read from the IHD and that is going to put the bill back up as it was before so I fire off another email asking that they take off the free time reading but instead they call me and ask for photo's of the meter readings, this is when I find out how to get the readings of all the readings on the meter. Even now it still reads two readings one for 160 hours, and one for an 8 hour period that was the free time from BG.  I ask them to take off the free time reading used when I was with BG.
I have put in a total reading of 11151 just before I found out about multi meter readings

Paedo tax (TV License) and spare bedroom tax

Since Jan 2017 I have been paying the bedroom tax for the spare bedroom I now have since I kicked the drug using and dealing family member out.
Although I am only paying £50 a month it is £50 that would be better in my pocket than the councils pocket. I personally think that those who want to move should not pay but those who don't or refuse to move should pay for spare bedrooms, it's not as if they are going to use them.
Why should people who would move if the right property came up be penalised because of those who refuse to move no matter what?

Why do I say only those that refuse to move should pay? Well, they're some who look on that privately, or council rented home as their own home, in a way it is but after the children grow up and move out then the remaining parents might want somewhere smaller and also some savings, if they had bought a large home, as they move from a two, three or even four bedroom place to a one bedroom place, and put the rest in the bank. It's a sort of you made your bed now you lie in it ultimatum to the kids who have left home. 

What do I hold responsible for the state of the housing? Well, it's one previous Conservative Leader, Margarate "The Milk Snatcher"  Thatcher and her right to buy, a policy that caused chaos as people who rented thought I know with the large discounts on offer I will buy the place then sell in a few years time. Some of the houses or flats went for as little as £4000. It leads to a spiralling circle where they try to constantly move up the property ladder and with lenders offering 105% mortgages people overstretched themselves and found themselves back in the council's hands and those properties were sold at auction, sometimes for a fraction of their value and the person was then chased for the remaining value of the property. So far I have had just one person seriously interested in my place on a swapping site but I need ground floor because of disability and they have a second-floor place so that isn't on unless they can find a person for their place and do a three-way swap.

Now on to the Paedo tax, AKA TV License, a couple of years ago I cancelled the Paedo tax because I found I never watched the thing. I was paying £145.50 plus £20 for BT TV I heard they were putting the price up again so waited for my notification of their intention but it never came, I just got the monthly bill with the increases on. What did I do? Exactly what they did, I moved to a cheaper provider. They tried to get nearly £220 out of me for leaving so I contacted the name on the letters by email after I got the bill but no joy. So I contact the CEO of BT and within 14 days the bill for leaving is reduced to just £2 and as they had taken nearly 28 days to sort it out and the CEO got the same email as the person on the contact emails or letters, with a few minor changes.
All I really ask for that I would have asked them to provide the court with was a copy of the said letter with proof of postage and receipt. I knew they could provide a copy of the letter but the proof of postage and receipt were what I got them with because even if they got a proof of postage I hadn't signed for any letter so they had no proof of receipt. This is one thing I tell everyone to do who says that a company sent them a letter. Copy of letter with proof of postage and proof of receipt. This works extremely well with the likes of DWP or any company if they just pop it in the mail can they prove they posted it and more to the point can they prove you received it? If a court expects us to believe they sent the letter, what would the defence say if we say we contacted them? Can you prove you contacted us? My answer is always YES because I only use email.

 The first line is: Your No License Needed claim expires soon. Please get in touch. 
Why should I? There has been no change in my watching Paedo funded material. I would rather listen on the radio to the same content, at least they try and make it sound interesting when you would rather be asleep and you don't need a Paedo License. 
The letter then goes on to say; Almost two years ago, you told us you didn't need a TV License at this address. As we mentioned at the time, we now need to check if your circumstances have changed. 
Like feck it has! When it changes I will be 75 them the Paedo company can pay my license fee or the government until then I will not watch the Paedo channels. 
On another point, the Paedo channels had a chance to go to a subscription only channel by the end of 2012 but they didn't I have a question, WHY THE FUCK DIDN'T THEY? The answer; they would have been loads who thought feck it I will just watch what is free and nothing else. Plus before the digital TV switchover, the Paedo company wisely positioned it's two channels right between the other free to air channels that relied on adverts for their funding. 
That brings up another question adverts on the Paedo channel, you say it's advert free think again! They have adverts for the RADIO TIMES and also other programmes that will be shown either after the one they are about to show or later in the week. they can take up to 5 minutes off the programme so your 29-minute programme is now 24 minutes long. So advert free MY FUCKING ARSE!! 

The letter goes on to say;
What you should do now. 
I know what I should do now file it in the bin, the letter even had TV Licensing on the front of the envelope, I just didn't notice until I opened it. I might have put return to sender if I had noticed the Logo on the front of the envelope 

Please get in touch so we can update our records. It only takes a few minutes to do one of the following: 
Tell us you don't need a TV License.
Tell us you do need a TV License.

Why the fuck should I tell the paedo protectors anything? I might tell you of a change like you're, or rather the government are paying my Paedo tax now, but other than that you can go fuck yourselves. 

This was signed with the fictitious name of Jackie Garswood, a customer service Manager. They are as real as Jake Hales and all the other works of fiction they put on their threat-o-grams. 
So until the next instalment, it's goodbye from me.


 
  

Trouble with new gas & electric supplier

Well, I have been with my new utility supplier for just over 4 months. What I thought would be a simple move has turned out to be anything but.
First off my monthly statements were not put on my account for me to read even though I had given them the monthly readings every month.

Secondly, they had used a far lower reading for my electric than the total that was taken from my smart meter, British gas had only given them, or so it appeared, the reading for the electric used Monday to Saturday and not added the free-time units to the total reading, or they had given them the two figures and someone at the new supplier had just taken the higher figure as my meter reading and not added the 1900 units of free-time used, so when they actually got my bills up and running the first months reading had nearly 1900 units that were used as a free-time  user when with British Gas.
That along with the monthly reading I had submitted gave me a monthly bill of £250. I downloaded all the monthly statements then went to my old supplier and got a copy of my final bill and to my horror, they had the bill as to separate units, free-time and non-free-time, giving readings of 7900 and 1900, that added together was within about 30 units of the reading I had given the person on the day I moved, 30 units I can live with but 1900 I will query, I knew there must have to be something wrong when I gave them the reading over web chat, he asked when I took the reading when I had taken the reading, which was only 30 minutes before I gave it to him.
Then the new supplier had upped my monthly fee from £8.99 to £11.99 but kept my monthly direct debit at just £32 a month.

I contacted them about the 1900 units and enclosed a screen capture of the readings from my final bill. I got an email asking me to call them, I don't know why as all the info was in the email I sent them then I get another email about a week after calling them asking for a photo of the meter readings if they meant a reading of the two unit amounts then even a smart meter is not that smart it only keeps readings of your present units used so the supplier can work out the bill, anyway I sent
the photo of the present reading which had now gone up to 10,750, approx, and now the unit in the kitchen is on the blink as the thing only says trying to connect to the smart meter, I cannot get any more meter readings. The meter is in an awkward place to see the unit.
It is seven days since I sent them the reading on the meter and they said it would take about fourteen days so they have at least seven days left, although I will give them at least twenty-eight days. But, how hard could it be to email British Gas and ask them for a total of the final readings? If they cannot then I will ask for a letter of deadlock and contact the energy regulator, I bet they see it as an easy case just like I do, it's a case of the total units used against the previous suppliers reading used by my new supplier. I think they sent a copy of my readings as they put them on my final bill, 7900 and 1900 free-time and the new supplier, https://outfoxthemarket.co.uk/How-it-works.aspx
just read the top reading, but I have one question? How do I use over half my yearly usage in one month, then in extremely cold weather only use a quarter of the amount, moneywise, the following month? Unless you are using the amount of electric of a small club there is no way you can use nearly £250 of electric in one month. I hope they sort it out because this time I chose the cheapest supplier overall and that is one thing I swore I would never do, I could have saved about £40 less with one or two other suppliers but this offer was just too good so I tried it. Besides I was getting regular repayments from British gas who I was paying £56 a month for their service, over 12 months I got over £240 back, even so, that still makes it cheaper than British Gas.

  

New Electric and Gas company

There is a new utility company that's just come on the market a few months ago, I say few months it started around September. They are cheaper than any of the main 6 UK company's in that they don't make a profit on the utilities they sell. Instead, they charge a monthly fee depending on how much you use, from £6.99 for a low user, under 2399Kwh to £13.99 for users of more than 6000Kwh, that's just £167.88 then your gas and electric usage on top.
As an example British Gas wanted me to pay £705 for the year that was nearly £59 per month but this new company will charge me just £32.07 a month although a check just before writing this and the same figures gave a price of £37.84 per month but are I bothered as they have given me a quote on how much I will pay each month and how much each unit costs. I have about 1000 units to play with in my price bracket before my monthly membership fee would go up so am not really bothered as I am saving about another 50p per day just switching the TV/blu-ray/ DVD/games consoles off at the socket when not in use.

Want to know who this company is? I bet you do they are outfox the market and I have saved £80 plus before I looked at the tariff, which for me is 10.45p and 3.25p with a £8.99 fee on the electric which is £107.88 rather than my suppliers 26.1p per day, or £190.53 standing charge per year.

Now the update on the outfox the market as I moved to them on 4/1/18.
Until I contacted them about not getting monthly statements at the beginning of April it took about two weeks to get the statements added to the account. When I look at them I got a shock, as I was on British Gas free time before the move the statements had an opening meter reading of 7906 but my meter reading is taken at around 09:30 AM was 9776,  some 1870 difference to the reading I gave them at 09:00AM. Of I go to my old BG account to see if there is anything from the account still there, luckily there were the final meter readings so I took a screen capture and cut it down to just the readings. It had two readings for the electric, the units used Monday to 09:00am Sunday & the free time units used since I moved on to the scheme added together the 7906 and the free time units of 1844 gave a reading of 9750 a lot closer to the reading I took at around 09:30. I should have known when I contacted them with the first meter reading when I was asked when I took the reading after I gave them it.

Today I called them 27/4/18 and told them I had been asked to call in regards to my email. they got my email up and the attachment then said they would query it with my old supplier.
They told me it would take a couple of weeks, this was done in just under 4 minutes on the phone

Beating the DWP at their own game, ESA related

Well just imagine you receive ESA, support group or WRAG, and you receive a letter asking you to attend a F2F assessment what would you do?
First of all, don't panic, make a note of the date and time, sometimes they expect the claimant to travel miles when you have an assessment centre closer to home, maybe in your home city or town, call them and tell them you have an assessment centre there and require an assessment in your home town/city. If they refuse don't just give up go to ceomail.com and look up the CEO of the assessment company and tell them how your journey will affect you it could be that the cheapest option, a bus might take hours to get there. The DWP require that you look for work no more than 90 minutes travel from your home, so try that by listing each part of the journey and how long it will take, do the whole journey not just up to the 90 minutes it would take you. This is a trick used by the DWP and assessment company to see how you follow instructions and directions. Use your worst day as an example, not your best or average day, do you know how you will be on that day?

When they say to contact the 0800 number and tell them just the basics, they will possibly have been contacted by the PA of the CEO with your email detailing everything so no need to go through it again.
Once you get the assessment at the centre closest to your home, this will possibly be at a different time and date to the one on the letter, write it down as they will say they will send you a letter with the date and time on, they sometimes don't but just in case write it down. 48 hours before the time, or a bit longer call them and ask for the assessment recording. It's your right to have it recorded as Chris Grayling said on 1/2/12 " Those who wish to have their assessment recorded may do so."
This might involve another cancellation or change of date as you have called them about 48 hours before to ask for the assessment recording.
When you do eventually get there ask for the travel expenses form, then ask if the recording equipment is there once you have the form. They might say yes without moving or they might go and check. Then ask them if it is complete and in full working order! again they might have to go and check but they will more than likely just say Yes.
Once you are called into the assessment, take your time it's not a race, don't forget if it is not your worst day, act it. They cannot prove it isn't your worst day and as I say if they assume you are putting it on then it is only their opinion and I say ASSUMPTION IS THE MOTHER OF ALL FUCK UPS! 
Look at the equipment it should be a duel tape or CD and there should be two boundary mics, if these are not there decline the assessment on the grounds that the equipment is not complete and in full working order SEE HERE for the reply to an FOI request about the recorders, it clearly states that boundary mics are required. If they are not present decline and under no circumstances continue.
The downside of this is that your assessment rate or benefit is stopped. My advice to this is to issue court papers against the assessment company and the DWP for reinstatement of the benefit, assessment or other rate be it support group or WRAG Plus compensation, they have lied and the DWP have taken their lies as Gospel that the claimant, you, didn't turn up. If you have your own recording, and I always advise doing your own covert recording, then you can type this up not only as proof you turned up but that the DWP didn't ask for an explanation on form BF223 as to why you, the claimant , didn't turn up because if they did you could inform them that you did turn up but the recording equipment was not complete and in full working order. If they then say this was not a good enough excuse you then bring the prosecution against both of them the assessment company and the DWP. This would be a case they could not win because your covert recording is proof you turned up.
Under no accounts should you sign anything that says you will not discuss this or divulge any information to any third party, i.e. the media or a blog, even your facebook page? You could even prosecute them again for failure to pay you, the claimant, the compensation awarded to you and ask for more compensation for the stress it has caused you. You would more than likely be awarded a token amount and your costs, but it is better than nothing. 

Save energy and costs on other things

How to give energy and utility company's the finger and other company's too

The energy and other utility company's will hate me for telling this but as I always say SOD 'EM. I was spending £165 a month on just gas and electric a few years ago. The son, now long gone, used to leave everything on and even grow drugs in the bedroom. So with the permission of a friend and the use of his BLOGGER account I have their permission to post this. 

Well, first the water! How you may ask when they do it on a rateable value? The simple answer is getting a water meter fitted although some properties cannot have them fitted you might be able to get the bill reduced to an estimated or if all the tenants in a block are single see if they all agree as you maybe just have the one feed coming into the block? This could be a help if all the residents are elderly as you might save overall. What is the point of paying £450 plus a year if you only use £250 including standing charges? A block who learn to turn off taps instead of run water continually could save considerably. Shower instead of taking a bath, does your hair need washing every day? No, it doesn't, not even those expensive dry shampoos. 5 minutes or less in a shower is ok and will use a fraction of the water that a bath uses, seconds to heat up wet yourself with water lather up and rinse off job done, get out and dry yourself.

Now the real culprit of overspending GAS & ELECTRIC it may seem like only pennies a day but pennies turn into pounds and one pound turns into five, ten, twenty and so on. It is very little you need to have on 24/7. They would be the fridge and freezer and the washing machine on standby as pulling it out to access the plug just isn't on, the only other thing would be the broadband router. Everything else, unless for medical use can be turned off. 

TV, DVD player, surround sound equipment, do you really need that massage bed or chair that has many positions,  NO! There's a saving already, hundreds of pounds. Buy a fleece dressing gown, gloves, hot water bottle, flask, Halogen oven, I recommend the Andrew James 1300W for £41.99 delivered  You get a load of accessories including a spare bulb and it's just 4 screws to change the bulb. Be careful as the last screw out, first one back can cut into the wires if you trap it and need to send it off for repair, cheaper to buy a new oven.

Who has the TV and DVD player on 24/7 I used too and that was around £50 a year including the surround sound as I hardly ever watch the TV preferring NETFLIX so over 50% of the TV license saved there. Over the years I have built up a collection of DVD's that will keep me going for the rest of my life.

In the really cold weather I put on the fleece dressing gown and gloves sod the heating until my free day for the electric then just about everything I need to do is done in that one day cooking washing everything that needs electricity the cooker is on all day electric fire radiator (electric of course), It's just reheating meals, you could do some prep work the night before and put it in cold water overnight.

Now the hot water bottle cost to fill a hot water bottle is around 2p per fill with a 3KW kettle, you might need a towel around the bottle to squeeze the excess air out gently. You want the top of the bottle to just have water coming out of the partly closed top, the last thing you want is to squeeze hard as you WILL burn yourself. 

Next the flask it's a bit like a teapot you warm it first with hot water it could be just hot tap water or from the kettle if you like. Don't add milk or sugar get them as you need them, or drink it without as towards the end you may need to use a microwave to heat the drink up unless you like it just warm. 

The gloves are an old pair I cut the inners out of, they were just far too warm with the inners plus after washing them I couldn't get the inners back in. I also have a shower that day 1 of the 4 I have through the week and as the electric is free until mid-2018 it is a long shower as the others are just fresheners to keep me clean.

I cook enough to keep me well fed for more than a week, then I reheat stuff throughout the week from the frozen cost of this is just around 5p per meal. Not bad to say I did the majority of the cooking when the electric was free, the downside is the larger daily charge for both gas & electric 26.1p per day compared to 15.1p on the standard rate. They expect the average of about 80p per week to be used in the 8 hours but I use about £1.35 on free time then a few hours outside like the first wash load as I wouldn't get it all done otherwise. But a few pence to do a load overnight is pennies. It must be the only day of the week I use the cooker instead of the halogen oven and slow cooker.

When looking for the best deals don't look at just what the savings sites say you can save go into the standing charge and price per unit then multiply that daily charge by 365 and divide by 100 to get the yearly charge in pounds and pence. Sometimes changing to the cheapest supplier might not be the best option, you could be locked into a set period, or even worse, any time you choose to leave a fee to leave their plan unless it's another service provided by them. But let's say you move and they charge you £30 to leave once you are hooked they can increase their fees, they normally wait a few months, nobody checks the pence per unit or the Kwh, who understands the Kwh conversion anyway. It's multiply by this, divide by that. Then add the standing charge for 90 plus days then divide by 100 and multiply by 105 to get the cost of the bill.  

RECORDING WCA ASSESSMENTS

ESA RECRDED ASSESSMENTS

 Are you going for a F2F assessment for ESA and have asked for it recording? Well now there is concrete proof that the machines need two boundry microphones for recording of assessments. 

This is confirmed by a freedom of Information request by Sarah Conner and upheld by the Internal Review  they requested when they originally said they were not complying under  S12.  

The main point of her request was to assertain if there was any internal mics on the NEAL DUEL RECORDERS  used by MAXIMUS when a person asks for a recorded assessment. By their response it was thought they were trying to hide until the internal review pointed out otherwise. The only point of the request was to see if they required external boundry mics for recordings and this clearly showed they do require external microphones for recording assessments. This one sentence clearly says that the boundry microphones are required: In reply to your original questions 1 and 2, I can advise that the recording machines requirew boundry microphones

I believe that anyone that goes for a F2F and is having it recorded you, IMHO, should walk if they are not on the machine at the assessment. The HP might say they are not needed so ask them to point out the internal mics on the machine, simple answer they cannot, you win, they lose. You then hit them with the reply in red from above and tell them if the payments stop, i.e. they claim you didn't turn up to the DWP, you start court action against them and the DWP with immediate effect from the moment the payments stop. It then starts all over again, you turn up get the expenses form, ask if the machine is there and complete and in full working order, this keeps going on until you get a machine with boundry mics and in working order. 

HAPPY HUNTING 

How to beat sanctions imposed by the DWP

How to beat sanctions that the DWP try to impose

Has I feel up to it I am going to put in a few posts on how to beat the Department of W4nkers and Parasites (DWP). Well here goes, you have to be brave to follow this through but I believe they work I will start with the one I have done and know it works.

You turn up at the job centre and you are told, when they call you that you are been sanctioned because you didn't turn up for an appointment. Regardless of the first thoughts of terror! What am I going to do with no money? If you are prepared, I was and had a letter ready to hand over, I had a collection on me ready to use, you get the letter out that says this.

Job centre                                                                                                                    Your Name

Address                                                                                                                        Address

Postcode                                                                                                                       Postcode

                                                                                                                                      NINO

I (Name) accept this letter on behalf of the manager at the above named Job Centre.

The above named person accepted this SUBJECT ACCESS REQUEST on behalf of Job centre plus and the Department Of Work and Pensions for the following items after I was told I missed an appointment and was sent a letter of this appointment. 

1. A clearly watermarked, COPY or DUPLICATE of said letter
2. Proof of postage of said letter
3. Proof of receipt of said letter

The first of the 40 days starts the day after the date on this request.
Dated this day of (DAY) in the month of (MONTH) in the year (YEAR)


 Yours
(signature)

If they refuse to accept the letter (SAR) demand the manager or their stand in if they say he's off work or in a meeting. If no one will accept it leave it on the desk and say the request as now been delivered and the 40 days starts from 9am tomorrow morning if I don't receive the information  it goes straight to court from day 41 and nothing will stop the case apart from full payments defined in the compensation claim with all my costs paid by JCP/DWP.

You ask for it watermarked so that when this goes further they cannot say that is the original you are showing. They will send a copy but it won't be watermarked and the proofs will say something like this. We posted the letter on DATE and you should have received it on, or about DATE. Not what you asked for the letter would be indistinguishable from the original and as for proofs they are worthless. 

Now it starts to get interesting, you tell them the copy is not watermarked as requested and what they call proofs are worthless in court, and to supply exactly what was requested. You also say you want the make and model number of the printer to check it can watermark printed material. Any stalling by the Job centre/DWP may mean you are doing something right. They like to think that they are always right and the claimant is always wrong and if they stall then you will give up, you should never give up because if you are in the right they eventually comply and it could mean not only the money they are withholding but compensation on top as well. 

You think the JCP/DWP are hard with their sanction threats I say bring it on you tw@s I make them 5h1t their pants. 

It doesn't matter if you don't have a letter like above because you can just email the central team by putting your postcode in here  The main thing is that you request the 3 items.

1. A clearly watermarked, COPY or DUPLICATE of said letter
2. Proof of postage of said letter
3. Proof of receipt of said letter

If you email you still need to put your name, address with postcode and National Insurance Number (NINO) in the email so they know exactly who you are and where to send the requested information. Again the We posted the letter on DATE and you should have received it on, or about DATE.
Again this is not what is asked for don't let them try this, if you let them get away with it they will use the excuse time after time on you and other claimants.


 

The benefits scrounger  

Beating the Department of Wankers and Parasites at their own game

On the 20th Jan this year I kicked out my drug using and dealing son who was down as my carer. At the beginning he was just that my carer, but by the time I kicked him out he was anything but a carer, so often he would ask me for money saying keep the carers allowance until I have paid you. Like a fool I often gave him the money or paid his car repair bills, even his insurance and road tax, one year paying out nearly £900 without a penny being paid back. 

I knew something was up near the end because I would get up and the fridge would have been raided, loaves of bread eaten, alcohol consumed, and through the night he had his bedroom full of people who just, I assume, helped themselves to whatever they could get their hand on. 

He even bought himself a dog 

I started by putting 5 simple rules on his bedroom door 

1. I go to bed they leave
2. No helping yourself to stuff (this was for the people he had in)
3. Be in for meals or go without

I forget the other 2. He even tried to abuse those simple rules saying he thought they meant him as well! Was he fucking stupid or what? He went out and would leave the puppy with the other dogs and I was left to clean up after it and take out 3 dogs, now down to one as the other died, and the puppy pulled the flooring up and chewed it, it went that day before he got back. It took just another two weeks before he went again asking for more money and my ever decreasing bank account was getting low, not excessively but getting to the point where I would have lost 1% interest on the money in the bank. I told him no but he kept on asking for the money saying he owed people it, after a day of him asking I told him no and if he asked one more time he was out. Well less than an hour passed and he asked again so as I said he went, he tried to hit me but my aggression towards him meant he went with little fuss, he knew he had gone too far. He returned the next day for a letter saying I had kicked him out so he could say he was homeless and apart from a week later that is the last I saw of him. I changed the locks and when he tried to get in he couldn't so he left.

Now to get down to how I beat the DWP. 

On the 22nd I checked the bank account before going to bed and the carers allowance had gone in so I made a note and stuck it by the PC and went to bed it simply read notify CA of son not been my carer any more.

In the morning I got up and took the dog out then booted up the PC then went to make a drink. while the kettle was boiling I made a search for a contact email for carers allowance, I found it then made my drink of tea and put it next to the PC then opened the email and copied the address into the box and the subject as Son no longer my carer.

I put in a short email that he the son, and his name, was no longer my carer as I had kicked him out and if they sent me an account number and sort code I would transfer it back to them. I also inform the ESA place I want them to pay me the severe disability premium as I now live alone and as I receive income based ESA an entitled to the payment added to my ESA. Next Sunday before bed I check again and again another payment of CA has gone in, they obviously cannot read or the email address was one that is only read occasionally by them, so I get their phone number and set my number to withhold caller ID then make a note to call them after taking the dog out. 

That Monday morning I call them and they say it shouldn't have gone into my account so I start on them saying he was a drug dealer and user and he had it into my account so he could pay me the board and I take the rest out and pay him cash. I also tell them if they send any mail here for him it will be sent back with not at this address on it. Again they try to say I should keep hold of it for him to which I say not a fucking chance it comes straight back and I did just that put it back in the post with NOT AT THIS ADDRESS on it. I then start waiting for the increase in my payments, namely the SDP, but it doesn't happen so the beginning of March I send them an email entitled NOTICE OF INTENTION TO PROSECUTE giving them 14 days from the 6th of the month as I sent it on the Friday evening and stating that on the 21st I would start court proceedings. Come the Sunday 19th I forget to check the bank and Monday morning, the 20th, I get a letter from the DWP thinking it is their third party parasite company, Maximus or CDHA, as they like to use calling me for an assessment I go to the the county court page to download the papers then suddenly remember the letter said DWP not Mximus or CDHA, so I open it and find they have paid me over £300 into my account, taking me just over the limit for money in savings. Well I quickly go to a cashpoint, just near the supermarket, well as quick as my legs will let me, 25 minutes for a 2 tenths of a mile round journey, boy am I getting slow in my old age, I draw out the over the limit amount. Then Thursday they Put in another £330+ I draw the £300 and spend the rest on shopping.

And that is how you beat the DWP! You know you should be paid the money and they simply refuse or reply asking you to contact them by phone. I would never contact them by phone because all they do is lie and log it as a call and nothing about the contents of the call.

In my notice of intention I sent them a copy of every email and reply, including headers, so they knew they were beat, they just held the money until the last minute, they might have even gone and got my bank records again so they could put me over the savings limit but now I know how those wankers operate I will beat them every time, because if you go over the limit you have a set time to get back to that limit, normally before your next payment for that benefit so you could be £550 over and due another payment in 7 days but because you get 28 days to use the PIP money and the same with any other benefit classed as income you are only classed as having it as savings after the next payment of the benefit.

The best advice I can give anyone is get a safe for any money you have above the limit and keep it in that the only downfall is when they change the notes or coins you would have to keep putting money in the bank and withdrawing the same amount in the new notes and that would be suspicious activity on a regular basis, like daily or every other day. Hopefully by 2021 all the conversions will be done so that should be that for some time. 

I am Daniel Blake!

I am just like Daniel Blake, are you?
From 2007, no longer,  I have had a series of illnesses that have progressively got worse, and as the medications make me extremely aggressive and have done since early 2000, not long after when I first started taking them.
Up until then I used to eat anything I wanted and never put on more than a pound or two but lost it quickly, I weighed just 10.5 stone and could eat 5 big mac meals and still not feel full and finish off anything the wife didn't want. I don't eat them now but you may say that's why you put weight on but that was not so, I used to eat all the junk foods and never gain weight. I even went out for meals and when asked what I wanted would say the biggest meal on the menu, one time getting a 72 ounce steak with chips, tomato, salad, mushrooms & peas and if you ate it all in 45 minutes you got it free I demolished it In under 25 minutes with a starter and desert, I even had half the wife's 12 ounce steak and her peas and mushrooms. Now I won't touch anything bigger than a 16 ounce steak and often choose an 8 ounce steak when out, all because if I ate like I used too, I would be around double the weight I am now.

In 2008 the DWP (Department of wankers and Parasites, as I call them) decided I was fit for work so I decided from that day to make their employees lives hell, and boy did I, so much so that even the security (or chocolate fireguards as I called them) wouldn't come near me. It started while I was waiting for the appeal I signed on and told the job centre after signing that morning I was moving to a place near Leeds. They asked when so I said when I get home from here today. The place I was signing on at did fuck all in helping me and they were glad to have me off their books and the responsibility of another centre. On checking out the position of the address of the new job centre I was going to I found that there was a closer one just half the distance from my new address so I printed it off with a wording I had found that said a person would sign on at their nearest job centre they said it wasn't my nearest centre in my postal area so I lost it in there and that was my first,and only, contact with their security guard who very quickly melted away after I told him I am thinking of 3 ways to end your life pick a fucking number 1, 2, or 3, he disappeared quicker than shit off a stick. The person I was seeing then proceeded to claim I must look for full time work and gave me the form to sign so I ripped it up and said start again and this time take into account my fucking disabilities. she tried to claim my only disability was being abusive so I really kicked off. The security took no notice of her they really didn't want to go face to face with me, but the disability employment adviser caught her tension and he came over I finished off with him and only having to look for 16 hours work per week. That really cut the number of jobs that I could do down. Many times I never applied for one job as most jobs were either Zero hours or full time, I had already said to previous people on signing on that I would not apply for jobs that were zero hours and  got away with it even though one person tried to claim that most zero hour jobs rarely meant zero hours but I shut him up saying that if I got 16 hours for two weeks but nothing for two weeks would I get two weeks JSA? I then went on to say of course I fucking wouldn't as they would average it out at 8 fucking hours a week if anything I would get it made up to £64+ for a week. This went on for 18 months until I went into hospital for, by what the surgeon called, a routine operation, they claimed I would be in hospital 1 week, that 1 week was nearly 5 weeks. I went in weighing over 17 stone (113.7Kg) and came out weighing around 10 stone (65.3Kg). My first point of call on the way home was to a cash point to get out some money, when I went in the maximum amount you could withdraw was £400 when I came out it had been reduced to £300 and no amount of me trying to get £400 would allow a withdrawal. I found out when I got home that the amount had been reduced by 25% when I was in hospital and a quick on line check revealed that no JSA had been paid but I put in a claim for ESA claiming from the day I went into hospital and I got paid from the day after I went in hospital. The one bonus was that the ESA was more than I ever got on JSA by over £40 due to the severe disability premium because of my DLA, now they would possibly try to withhold the person knowing the extra money was due if they got DLA, or PIP as it's now known as.
I got my assessment date but I had included a copy of every appointment I had and they gave me an appointment that clashed with a hospital appointment date I had sent them. I called to cancel but I didn't know if my daughter could make it but what had they expected me to do go to the hospital for a 11.30 appointment have the appointment and wait for the transport back home then try and make it to the assessment for 1pm, which If I hadn't cancelled I wouldn't have made it, as I got home at 12.50pm, just 10 minutes before the appointment time, in short I would never had made it to both appointments and as I have always said first know appointment takes precedence over a later one no matter what! so that's why I cancelled but the trouble in getting a new appointment they just give me a date and time and when I said I don't know if the person can bring me on that date she said tough you can change it for an earlier date but not a later one I started swearing and she hung up.

It came that the daughter could and on getting there we parked in the DWP car park as I had a blue badge saved walking 100 meters from the pay and display car park up to the door there was a shallow ramp or a series of two steps,I took the ramp every time stopping half way up each ramp for a minute or two this was obviously a test to say reliably safely and repeatedly an action could be performed. Fuck them they lost, we got in and I made,very slowly, for the chair by the door as it was the only door to go through that wasn't an exit by the time my daughter went up to the window and handed in my appointment letter, it was a copy I had the original at home, she said you're late, I took my phone out and immediately said no we're fucking not you lying bitch my time says we're 6 fucking minutes early. The security guard (chocolate fireguard) got up from  the only chair with arms in the place,  to walk across I immediately said pick a number between 1 and 3 he replied why so I said the number depend on how long you live get the right one you may live until an ambulance arrives the others mean instant death. He thought for a moment then turned round and sat down.
My daughter came over and asked if I had any ID on me and I replied in a loud voice who the fuck would come here to verify information they have already been fucking given unless it was the fucking person named on the fucking letter. I half expected the chocolate fireguard to get up and try and come over but he didn't move. about 3 minutes later a very nervous person opened the door and called my name, it turned out she was an Asian GP  as I looked at her as I was helped up by the daughter and she followed us along the corridor telling us to turn into the room it took me about 2 minutes to walk those 25 meters. I could tell from the start she wanted little or no interaction with me as the person at the window had gone off and notified her I was here and wasn't prepared to be walked over. She started off the questions and immediately looked at my daughter for the reply so I let her answer, the questions lasted about 45 minutes then she said to me can you do this so I said no I fucking cannot I am not a fucking performing chimp. She seemed shocked that I swore, but I had been like it since I got in there. She ventured round from her side of the desk and immediately tried to take my walking stick I grabbed it close to me and said you look with your fucking eyes not your fucking hands. She let out a little ggrrrrr as she retreated to the safety of her PC tapping away she said I have finished and then signed off from the PC and followed us again to the door and along the corridor she punched a code into the door lock and let us out.
As we got to the door the chocolate Fireguard got up and moved to the other end of the room, definitely wanting to keep his distance.  It took about three weeks to get the result letter but after 4 days I had called them for a copy of the report, the 40 days passed and I forgot about it having got a fortnightly amount of £320+ going into my account, almost twice my JSA £170+. Was I happy? You bet I was. Then at the end of 2010 the ex wife died she owed thousands on gas and electric as well as other bills, she had not declared our son as living there so he had no right to live there but as it was cold weather I told him to stay put until I could get through and take possession as I was still listed on the tenancy, then there would be sod all they could do. I got through a week later then when the estate manager wanted the son to move out I told her you should have taken me off the tenancy when I fucking asked and as now you will be asking me to take over the payments for the rent owed there is fuck all you can do bye and shut the door on her.
A few days later She called me and I said I would only accept a certain area of the city, the central area, she tried to make out getting this area was very rare unless you are top of the waiting list, but I held out and a few months later was offered a place close to where I wanted. I made out I would think about it but all the time I knew I would take it. I just wanted to make them sweat, and while I had the keys they couldn't let it. In the end I accepted it, but I left it a couple of weeks before I notified the DWP I had moved, I mean you want time free from when you are due a payment of ESA or DLA and as I was due DLA the week of the move I held off until the following week when my ESA payment had gone in sending both the DLA and ESA an email saying I had moved from address A to address B on date just like when I moved into the ex's place in 2010.

Then we move forward to May 2012 and another ESA50 drops through the letterbox I am a bit pissed off because the ESA72 says I will be contacted again on or after 26/5/12 but the return date is after the 26th so I am not too bothered. It takes the DWP over 8 weeks to do a paper report on 124 pages of evidence and the report but even though this says the same longer term BS in the paper report I just don't have the strength to fight them, I know that just the phrase on the report and the ESA113 could get me another 12 months but I let it slide. There was no WFI letter with the award letter and the ESA72 clearly stated WE WILL CONTACT YOU AGAIN ON OR AFTER (DATE) WHERE YOU MAY BE SENT ANOTHER ESA50 OR ASKED TO ATTEND AN APPOINTMENT. 

For a whole 10 months I got peace off the DWP not one letter apart from the yearly increase letter. then In May 2013 another ESA50 I quickly remember 2012 so search for the copy on my PC I find it along with the ESA72 I quickly print off page 2 of the ESA72 and type out a letter to enclose with the blank copy I am going to send back to them. For once I don't have brain freeze and the letter writes itself in one day I open their junk mail put it in their envelope with a complaint letter and a copy of page 2 of the ESA72.
48 hours pass and I do another letter to the DWP and a copy of page two of the ESA72. They reply that they send them out two months early and always have so that on or about the date on the ESA72 the claimant will be having an assessment. My reply is along the lines of not in 2012 so always is a load of fucking bullshit. I find the envelope the 2012 ESA50 came in clearly franked 17/5/12 and enclose it with another letter telling them I am thinking of prosecuting them as I have enough evidence for a case against the DWP. They send another bullshit letter, and say they have notified ATOS to issue another ESA50 and just 4 days later it arrives another fucking ESA50 with a return date before the date on the 2012 ESA72 my first thought is send the fucking thing back to them with a copy of court papers, but as the date is just 6 days before the date on the ESA72 I decide to fill it in add all the papers then when they send the reminder wait until the last minute and ask for three weeks because I am awaiting paperwork to enclose with the form, it works but they only allow me two weeks, still it's after the date on the ESA72 so in a way I won.
This time they are very quick in doing a paper report, I think they know they have met their match and I get another two years only this time they send three letters the award letter, a WFI letter and a breakdown of how much I would get. The WFI is just a week away and when me and the daughter turn up they keep us waiting before the manager sees us and claims the person who was to deal with me had an emergency to attend too, I bet he had to go home for a change of pants after reading the any other info page on the ESA form it said over 3 quarters of the page all verbal communication would be audio recorded. And you can bet I was, I go in a DWP or anywhere associated with them and I record covertly. Some job centre NAZI'S hate been recorded and do anything to avoid it, the manager admitted he hadn't done one of these for years so my daughter quickly changed it from a WFI to a maternity claim which he was more than happy to do so when I got home I deleted the recording.  Then Mid December another letter arrives this for another WFI this one is the beginning of Jan 2014 I have an appointment the same day in Newcastle so cancel I get a new one for Feb and it lasts just 9 minutes her first words are you should be in the support group she asks for a contact number, I could have give her the home number because I don't have a phone connected to the line, and who knows their mobile number, oh I do but just looked blank so she wrote on the appointment letter for someone to contact her and give her a contact number I threw it in the bin outside just round the corner from the office. Then I mid 2014 I remembered about asking for an ESA72 copy and sure enough the 2014 copy had changed from the 2013 copy it had taken out the contact on or after section, sneaky little parasites, maybe I should have taken them to court in 2013.  

In just over 4 months it will be 4 years since my last WCA but all I say is bring it on they can try all the crap they like I am ready for them. If they try the old info bullshit they will be told there as been no change so it's still fucking relevant! I have answers for all their crap, from paying bills to shopping, and so should all those going to be interrogated by them. It's not the claimants fault if the HP hasn't read the ESA50 or PIP02 form so what is stopping you from saying in the interrogation Just as it says on the bloody form? If they ask for you to say how you shop, pay bills or other info you have put on the form you could tell them, which shows them you have no memory problems, or you can say read the fucking form! This will more than likely end the assessment. If you have put in the form you react to been provoked and you have taken a copy of the form and information sent with you, then why can't they read this? It's because they want you to say something that isn't on the form so they can then take that part of the statement out of the full statement and say that the claimant states this which is just part of the whole statement. 
They may ask can you cover 50 meters and you may say "Given enough time I could cover 50 meters" They are looking for things to put in saying you can cover that distance so in a reply they would put CLAIMANT STATES: THEY CAN COVER 50/100/200 METERS. When you started with GIVEN ENOUGH TIME but enough time could mean twice as long or longer than a person of a similar age meaning they are to assume you are not capable of doing that distance, so straight away they lie on the report. That's why I say put it all in the form and if they cannot read it that's their fault, it certainly isn't yours. 

All I can suggest is you try it putting everything on the forms like bill payments on-line shopping they all make adjustments to bills or tell you how much they will take every month for the following year, apart from shopping you get the amount with every order, telling them you don't watch TV, video's or blue-rays. anyone can listen to the radio for free even if just for background music, or chat, there's nothing worse than been in a house with no sounds.

THAT'S WHY I AM DANIEL BLAKE 

I Daniel Blake

Tonight I watched I Daniel Blake, I know some will say you cannot have watched it unless you saw it at the pictures,  but I did only it had foreign subtitles but it was in English language. from the film I thought there was a couple of inaccuracies one was that if you apply for any other benefit they close your claim on ESA or tell you you cannot because you have an open claim.  
To claim any other benefit you must close the claim for ESA and that is the mandatory reconsideration you requested, you need money or funds to see you by something like PIP/DLA or savings to see you through, because they can take as long as they like to make the decision.

If someone wants this could make a very hard hitting TV series not necessarily Daniel Blake but along the lines of  I Daniel Blake, The John Smith story basing say two or three two hour episodes on one story. This is something the main 4 channels possibly wouldn't touch with a barge pole it would be up to say Netflix or Amazon to do it, and say they just did it for the UK subscribers it could really rock any government in power if they did. It could really shame MP's that voted to cut the WRAG component from ESA, while in 2017 they are going to receive a £1000 rise.
They could end each episode with

"I AM NOT A CLIENT, A CUSTOMER, NOR A SERVICE USER, I AM NOT A SHIRKER, A SCROUNGER, A BEGGAR NOR A THIEF, I AM NOT A NATIONAL INSURANCE NUMBER, NOR A BLIP ON A SCREEN. I PAID MY DUES, NEVER A PENNY SHORT, AND PROUD TO DO SO. MY NAME IS __________________ , I AM A MAN/WOMAN, NOT A DOG, AS SUCH, I DEMAND MY RIGHTS. I DEMAND YOU TREAT ME WITH RESPECT. I _________________
, AM A CITIZEN, NOTHING MORE, NOTHING LESS."


 Katie read that out at Daniel Blake's funeral, after he died. I am sure they would be swamped with story's from people who may want to remain anonymous but get their story out. Nothing would give me greater pleasure than seeing both Labour and Conservatives been humiliated by this on streaming services, or any channel willing to make a series on this subject.

I have things I would like to humiliate the government with! Why do you think they say that HP's will never have to attend tribunals? Because no matter who you send the request too it will never be passed on to the HP telling them they have to attend, same with decision makers they think they are safe from having to turn up! The best you get if a tribunal is adjourned to allow them to attend is a solicitor turning up and the best they can do is give an opinion of an opinion.

I have a list of forms that should be requested as soon as you get home or the HP has gone from your home, or you get the result of a paper assessment and they are

ESA

1. ESA50 (unless you copied the completed one to file) 
   ESA85  (report)
   ESA85(S) 
   ESA113
   LT54/ESA65
   All the information used by the HP including web addresses of sites they used to search for information
   All the information used by the decision maker plus web addresses and the name(s) plus qualifications of anyone they contacted  to ask for further information
   The medical qualifications of the decision maker who made the decision 
   
   
   
   
   
   

   PIP

   PIP01
   PIP02
   PIP04
   PIP07 
   All the information the HP used plus web addresses of sites they looked up information on 
   All the information the decision maker used plus web addresses of sites they used to gather information plus the name and medical qualifications of any person they contacted for information on the report
   
   
   
   
   If you get bad news, fail the assessment, you should ask for a reconsideration, they can take their time so don't waste yours but do withhold your number if you call them 141 from a BT line or hide caller ID on a mobile. you won't get paid while they reconsider but you may get hardship payments for ESA.
   
   
   If you get to a tribunal without doing a Daniel Blake (dying) then you should also have asked that the HP and both decision makers are there to answer question, you aren't going to ask them just about the report but about everything you can get away with!
   you are going to ask them
   1. How long they have work for the DWP or assessment company?
   2. If they work part time or full time?
   3. Ask the HP their full name as given on the GMC/NMC/HCP website and their number
   4. Ask their fields of speciality? if asked by the panel or person to elaborate, say if this was a court and you were giving evidence what would say you have expert medical knowledge in?
   5. How many books/pages/paragraphs or sentences they have read on your medical conditions?
   6. Could you name at least one of them?
   7. Are they available for sale to the general public?
   8. Did you contact anyone for advice, either before or after the assessment? What are their medical qualifications? 
   9. (DM) Did you contact anyone for further information if so what is their field of expertise? 
   10. (DM) What is your specialist field of medical knowledge? Ask them to explain some medical terms to you have and the answers too.
   11. Can you point out what is FACT and what is opinion in the report? 
   
   But you won't have to go through that the worst they will try is to send a solicitor to answer the questions and throw you off with legal jargon, do not allow them to stand as a representative of either the HP or decision makers.  You become the Daniel Blake, direct questions to the medical person on the panel if they say they will answer any questions you have, make them wet themselves.

HAVE YOU BEEN TURNED DOWN FOR ESA OR PIP?

HAVE YOU BEEN TURNED DOWN FOR ESA OR PIP?

If you have been turned down for ESA or PIP then just don't give up!

First you have to go through the mandatory reconsideration, you can send additional evidence but they usually stay with their decision so what can you do? Well here is my way of dealing with them, although yet to be tried out, I expect to be trying it out sometime next year, if not earlier.

You should have your assessment recorded, phone them 48 before and tell them you want it recording, for ESA and covertly record your assessment for PIP. Turn on the Dictaphone before you get into the street, make sure you have set it to at least 15 minutes before it turns off or disable the option altogether, if 15 minutes cough into the mic every 5 minutes so activate another 15 minute period or say something like "How much longer are they going to keep me waiting I'm in enough pain as it is now?"  and make sure you only turn up minutes before, no more than 5 minutes before, their clocks run fast by about 5 minutes. ask for your travel expenses form, then ask if the equipment is there and in full working order and complete, the portable version has the disc slots above the display window the 9102 has the disc slots to the side of the display window. There should also be two boundary MICS, one in front of the HP and one in front of you if they aren't there tell them you asked if the equipment was complete and was told it was they lied STRIKE ONE. If the HP has said it has internal MICS, STRIKE TWO.  

But for now let's say they have done a report and declared you are not eligible for the benefit and they upheld the MR

you fill in the tribunal form and send it to them. You get back a hearing date and time so what next? You contact the DWP and the CEO of the assessment company with the following two emails, first the assessment company.

On (DATE/TIME) I demand that the HP (NAME) who assessed me at the F2F/ produced the paper report attend the hearing to answer questions about the report and other subjects relevant to the case.

Failure to attend will result in asking for the report to be thrown out and a decision in favour of the claimant made!

Signed

A. N. OTHER

 The CEOs email can be found on http://www.ceoemail.com/

NOW THE DECISION MAKER (you may have to post it I cannot find an email address for Caxton house unless you go through the JCP site HERE

PLEASE MAKE SURE THIS GETS TO THE CORRECT DEPARTMENT

On (DATE/TIME) I demand that the decision maker who put their name to the report of opinion claiming I was fit for work attend the hearing at (Address of hearing) to answer questions about the report and other subjects relevant to the case. Also requested is the attendance of anyone they referred to for advice on the report or supplied evidence,

Signed

A.N. OTHER

Now here are the questions to ask!

1. How long have you worked for the company?
2. Is the job part time or full time?
3. How do you keep your registration current as writing reports of opinion is hardly keeping your registration current?
4. Name the books you have read specifically on my illness?
5. (if they name one ask) was it the whole book(s), pages, paragraphs, or just a few sentences?
6. Are they available for sale to the general public?
7. (if they are not) Why not?
8. What subjects do you specialise in?
9. Are they recorded on the company's website with your registration details?
10. (if they say no) Why not?
11. Did you, or any other person that works at the company, access my medical records?
12. Why not? 
13. (if yes) Ask why they were not enclosed in the SUBJECT ACCESS REQUEST you submitted on DATE? (this date should be the day of the assessment by email to the JCP office you would sign on at if found fit for work)
14. Can you point out in the report what is opinion and what is fact?

Now for the decision Maker

1. How long have you worked as a decision maker for the DWP?
2. What are your qualifications that make you so qualified to be a decision maker?
3. Did you refer to anyone for advice in relation to the report or supplied evidence?
4. (if yes) Are they here today to answer questions?
5.  Do you specifically make decisions on ESA/PIP or do you make decisions on all things?
6. Do you always agree with what is in the reports? 
7. When was the last time you disagreed with the findings of the HP/JCP or other person representing the authority? 
8. Can you point out to me on the report what is opinion and what is fact ?

For anyone turning up with the decision maker

1. What medical authority are you registered with?
2. What is your GMC/PIN NUMBER?
3. When did you last practice?
4. How many books have you read specific to my condition?
5. Are they available for sale to the general public?
6. Was it whole book(s), pages, paragraphs or sentences?
7. Did you read the information after you where asked about the subject or did you know the answer when asked?
8. Which books or websites did you use to get the information 
9. Is the site specifically for qualified people i.e. not accessible without medical knowledge?
10. Can you produce a copy of the evidence that you read for the tribunal?
11. Can you tell me on the report what is FACT and what is Opinion?

Has no one from the HP, or decision makers department will turn up rephrase the questions to ask the medical person on the panel if they claim they will answer on their behalf. Make sure the medical person is put under pressure get as many "I don't know" or opinion related answers as possible. Opinion is what you are questioning on the report so again demand the report and everything the DWP and assessment company have said is thrown out, everything the HP has said is not fact but opinion if any party says it is all fact point them to parts of the report where the HP has stated it is their opinion and produce a written word for word account of the assessment as evidence, audio recording, written out word for word, they don't have audio devices at tribunals, so the only option is to spend hours transcribing it to written word. 

I have just read that the DWP are turning up at tribunals so there would be three in the room THE JUDGE, MEDICAL PERSON, DWP REPRESENTATIVE, maybe 4 if it's PIP, that doesn't include you and any representative accompanying you. Ask that all the people are named, don't be afraid you may want to call them at a later to answer questions if they are sent by the DWP, maybe they can tell what is opinion and what is fact within the evidence!

 

 

Iplayer and the license fee

Iplayer and the license fee (UPDATE)

From 1/9/2016 they are expecting people to pay to watch catch up services. This is something I am totally against, in fact I have just cancelled my license from the beginning of the month. Anything I watch is by catch up service but not the BBC.

If they turn up at my door they are going to be asked to show me on the spot evidence of watching a TV and explain how they got the evidence. They will also be asked to produce all, or any, court papers claiming they have got the right to access the information, in short a warrant. If they ask me to sign anything saying it is just to say I am not watching TV I will refuse after saying I want to read every word on anything I am asked to sign.

Their sneaky tactic is to ask to come in or claim they have a legal right to enter, I dealt with them years ago by actually hitting one that tried to enter my flat, he called the police but I had evidence that what he said was bullshit. It clearly showed him trying to push me into the flat before he lost 3 teeth and smashed his phone, it still worked though. The police cautioned him, saying that if they were called out again he would be arrested. 

If, as they claim, have the ability to show a person is using the site without a license then they had better be able to show beyond all reasonable doubt how they did it, and in plain English. They will be asked to explain how their surveillance equipment works and how it was that was watching at the time. They would also be asked to explain how it determines the BBC feeds from channel 4/5 ITV or any other subscription service, again they would be asked for the plain English version, no technical words. 

They would try the confidential information route, possibly, to which I would reply "So you are offering no evidence and the person denies the claim made against them." If they want to use any evidence the other side, the accused must also have access to it, if they don't then it cannot be used or taken into account in the decision. Before all that though I would issue a counter claim against them for a lot more than they could ever impose as a fine. They fine a person £1000 you counter claim £11,000 plus costs and walk off over £10,000 up. 

They are more likely to back off and send the occasional demand for money which you reply by sending your demand for payment of the money you claimed against them when they tried their bullshit excuse to say it was confidential how they detected you.

It all boils down to how can they prove the person appearing on the day was the one watching, if there was ever anyone watching, without getting inside the home of the person and they have no rights of access so they cannot prove anything even if and everyone knows someone who has a TV license so if you sit outside on a warm day you could give that address as your home but as you would be watching on something that is not plugged in just tell them to FOXTROT OSCAR. 

Well it's 6 months since I dumped the TV license, have I missed it? like fuck I have I have watched more content  on non BBC catch up than ever and netflix and Amazon prime content than I would ever watch otherwise! All thanks to one download KODI  
Although you can get sky and BT channels there is enough content for just films from HERE
The EXODUS add on gives FILMS and SERIES going back to the 60's, used to be late 50's but some content can be found in a search for the show if you know the name some content may say it's found episodes but say no streams when clicked it's best to go to the next episode if after two or three tries you get the same result! One I cannot wait for is I Daniel Blake, I wish I had wrote something like this because the Daniel Blake Character would have been stirring up the shit at a tribunal hearing, make no mistakes about that. But seriously download KODI and give the TV license the FINGER all the series they put on TV are able to be seen on KODI even an Amazon Fire stick will accept a KODI download. So there we have it.

I have one tip for those going this route tell them over 6 months in advance you will not be renewing the license once it expires as you may find you only get a three month refund and to take no more payments from your account but to let the license expire from when you will be watching no more live TV