Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

Dear all
I am conscious that activity on the Forum is slowing down somewhat, but I am worried that Julian may be lumbered with the cost of maintaining it. So I have today made a paltry contribution (I paid something last July, too.....). If you want the Forum to continue, please contribute also!
Kerren

kerrensimmonds wrote:Dear all
I am conscious that activity on the Forum is slowing down somewhat, but I am worried that Julian may be lumbered with the cost of maintaining it. So I have today made a paltry contribution (I paid something last July, too.....). If you want the Forum to continue, please contribute also!
Kerren

KERREN.

I haven't been on here for well over a week, due to a minor operation, AND a major family problem.

I'll E-Mail you later today.

John.

Annual donation sent last week. Julian always sends a friendly acknowledgement too. I wonder if the troll contributes?

JR, I hope things have improved for you and your family.

anniexf wrote:Annual donation sent last week. Julian always sends a friendly acknowledgement too. I wonder if the troll contributes?

JR, I hope things have improved for you and your family.

Yes and No. More advances have been made today, though it looks like I may well have to become the experienced 'advocate' I am, once again.

I am getting so seriously p*ssed off with the present so called leaders of this country.

J.R. wrote:

anniexf wrote:Annual donation sent last week. Julian always sends a friendly acknowledgement too. I wonder if the troll contributes?

JR, I hope things have improved for you and your family.

Yes and No. More advances have been made today, though it looks like I may well have to become the experienced 'advocate' I am, once again.

I am getting so seriously p*ssed off with the present so called leaders of this country.

I'm wondering if this is that phoney & disgraceful DLA Assessment, JR? If so, I hope you're getting professional CAB-type advice. And I hope you yourself have fully recovered from the hospital stay.
Yes, this Government stinks.

anniexf wrote:

J.R. wrote:

anniexf wrote:Annual donation sent last week. Julian always sends a friendly acknowledgement too. I wonder if the troll contributes?

JR, I hope things have improved for you and your family.

Yes and No. More advances have been made today, though it looks like I may well have to become the experienced 'advocate' I am, once again.

I am getting so seriously p*ssed off with the present so called leaders of this country.

I'm wondering if this is that phoney & disgraceful DLA Assessment, JR? If so, I hope you're getting professional CAB-type advice. And I hope you yourself have fully recovered from the hospital stay.
Yes, this Government stinks.

Yes it is DLA.

My enquiries have proved that 75% or thereabouts of all GENUINE white Bitish claiments are being suspended on 'Call Me Dave's' orders.

The tribunal system is already overloaded. We have obtained a full medical report from our own G.P., at great expense, which I WILL be claiming back for my daughter from DWP.

Revue medical is next Monday in Guildford, which I have to admit I'm looking forward too. We have amassed an A4 box file full of literature from five hospitals, 4 specialists, County Health and Social Workers. I hope the Doctor has been allowed a good two hours to go through it all !


Unfortunately, our family name isn't Singh or Patel, nor are we scrounging asylum seekers from Eastern Europe - Not that I'm prejudiced, mind you !

J.R. wrote:

Yes it is DLA.

My enquiries have proved that 75% or thereabouts of all GENUINE white Bitish claiments are being suspended on 'Call Me Dave's' orders.

Unfortunately, our family name isn't Singh or Patel, nor are we scrounging asylum seekers from Eastern Europe - Not that I'm p rejudiced, mind you !

The last time there was a major "get them off the books" exercise, most of the doctors who applied to be assessors ( a nice little earner for ticking a few random boxes) had non-English names. When I had to call an emergency GP out to my mother once, he was a very expensively dressed, extremely patronising foreign person. Prejudice is taking a view before seeing the evidence; I've some experience of these exercises and no, JR, I wouldn't call you prejudiced. I've been accosted by a Romanian woman outside my hospital after chemotherapy - begging for cigarettes! She couldn't have known the irony of that situation!

J.R. wrote:

Yes it is DLA.

My enquiries have proved that 75% or thereabouts of all GENUINE white Bitish claiments are being suspended on 'Call Me Dave's' orders.

The tribunal system is already overloaded. We have obtained a full medical report from our own G.P., at great expense, which I WILL be claiming back for my daughter from DWP.

Revue medical is next Monday in Guildford, which I have to admit I'm looking forward too. We have amassed an A4 box file full of literature from five hospitals, 4 specialists, County Health and Social Workers. I hope the Doctor has been allowed a good two hours to go through it all !


Unfortunately, our family name isn't Singh or Patel, nor are we scrounging asylum seekers from Eastern Europe - Not that I'm prejudiced, mind you !

John
I appreciate that you are probably very angry about your treatment over DLA (as a CAB advisor I see many others suffering the same treatment) but are you saying that you have evidence that the government are operating a policy that involves racial discrimination ?
By the way asylum seekers have a "no recourse to public funds" clause on their passports http://homeless.org.uk/migrants-asylum- ... BA03dXmDQI.

ANDREW.

I have sent you a (lengthy) PM to make the position clearer.

Not for the public domain.

John,

I hope this issue gets resolved.

I wouldn't go as far as to say that there is discrimination on racial grounds but there certainly seems to be a tendency at the moment for public bodies to obfuscate in paying over entitlements to perceived "soft" targets in the hope that they will give up in despair.

I sense they've picked the wrong target this time and a good job too!