Well done for writing that, darling. I wanted to write something similar once about my own DWP experiences, and just never managed to be able to face it. I'm so proud of you.
I do want to point out here in addition, for those who have got down this far, a) that the DWP also managed to lose my P45 while moving offices between Dover and Croydon, b) that this same system concluded eventually that I am well enough to work full-time. People who know me at all will I hope recognise the sheer stupidity of that. I chose not to appeal, because the idea exhausted me, and I was lucky enough to have the choice, with a husband in well-paid employment who was (and is) happy to support me having no income. That's very, very, *very* lucky of me. That plus my middle-class accent, white skin and English degree must make me one of the luckiest people to apply for benefits of all. And it's still had a horrible effect on me.
And let's not even get into what this system does to people who are in the wide gulf between "well enough to work full-time" and "completely unwell"...
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Well done for writing that, darling. I wanted to write something similar once about my own DWP experiences, and just never managed to be able to face it. I'm so proud of you.
I do want to point out here in addition, for those who have got down this far, a) that the DWP also managed to lose my P45 while moving offices between Dover and Croydon, b) that this same system concluded eventually that I am well enough to work full-time. People who know me at all will I hope recognise the sheer stupidity of that. I chose not to appeal, because the idea exhausted me, and I was lucky enough to have the choice, with a husband in well-paid employment who was (and is) happy to support me having no income. That's very, very, *very* lucky of me. That plus my middle-class accent, white skin and English degree must make me one of the luckiest people to apply for benefits of all. And it's still had a horrible effect on me.
And let's not even get into what this system does to people who are in the wide gulf between "well enough to work full-time" and "completely unwell"...