They sent me a letter one week ago saying they were talking to my health team.
Now today I get a letter saying they have not heard back from them, and they want to see me face to face!
They left it one week before deciding not to wait any longer, I am furious.
I have told them no I am not going as last time I went to one I had a relapse and stopped my medication because the deceitful assessor completely ignored me and said I didn’t need help.
This is such a corrupt system. The DVLA took 5 months to get the information needed to make a decision, but the DWP won’t wait a week.
Do you have a Care Co-ordinator or named CPN you can phone?
Get them to phone up. If needs be lay it on a bit thick to your CMHT - so they pull there finger out there arse. You east sussex brighton right?
You should not be having to deal with this crap. I would even ring the socal services - saying its causing you undue distress.
It pisses me off with the amount of hoops they make you jump thru - to get what your entitled to.
I would create blue murder with your point of contact with the Mh Team.
I hope you can get things sorted soon. It’s my experience that either the DWP plays silly buggers, or the letter you get from your mental health team to send with your claim is so basic as to be useless.
I’ve had the latter and chasing up the nurse practitioner to provide a more informative letter was a fool’s errand .
There is a chance that you’d need to appeal after face to face if you did decide to go to that n the appeal process is just absolutely lengthy waiting time for a possible tribunal date n or decision time. It’s true might not be worth it if you think u may relapse again.