I’ve got a compliance telephone interview tomorrow with the DWP, between 9.00am and 4.00pm.
They expect me to be by the phone the whole day.
The letter might be generic but sounded like they think I’m fiddling and they are checking up. I’m doing no such thing and don know what they men when they say they are aware of a change of circumstance and need to check I’m on the right benefits.
Does anybody know what this might be about? A nasty sounding letter for a routine check up perhaps? Any ideas?
I had a phone call before my PIP was assessed. But that was just a phone call with no prior notice. And they seemed to be trying to give me more points than I’d claimed.
Have you already qualified for PIP Florence? And is this a double check on something? Or is it prior to their decision?
It is a bit odd to be told anytime between 9 and 4. I suppose you have to take the phone to the loo with you!!
I haven’t heard about Pip at all and I’m still waiting. As far as I know its got nothing to do with PIP because I’ve never been to pipped, I’m still on DLA.
I suppose it might be a precursor to PIP.
I’ve had the letter for two weeks now and haven’t mentioned it to anybody before, but because the interview istomorrow I’ve decided to ask. I should’ve asked you all earlier.
It sounds sinister but I haven’t done anything wrong so I don’t see how it can be.
I am coming off of ESA very shortly because Mark’s mother has moved into a care home and her house has been sold and the proceeds distributed among Mark and his brother and sister. You would think that the house had to pay for care home fees but it turns out that she has enough money with her pensions to pay the fees without touching the house, so the house is being shared out.
On the very day that the contracts were signed I received this letter from the DWP. I immediately panicked because I thought that I should’ve told them about the inheritance, they don’t know about it yet. I can see absolutely no point in telling them about money that we might get and we haven’t got yet. I plan to tell them on the day the money landed in the bank account. Completion date is Friday next week so we should get the money Friday or Monday. But not telling them already isn’t wrong is it?
flo don’t worry about the inheritance, as you said, it’s just a maybe at the moment. FISH to them! if you don’t know what fish is - it’s a bit rude. enjoy the inheritance when it lands in your account. it was ESA that i had a sinister phone call from. i told the man that it felt like a summons from the stasi! he didnt know what the stasi were so i told him. poor chap was mortified and was falling over himself trying to make it better. i’m an utter cow sometimes!
Tell them nothing - yet. A gas explosion destroys the house and you have to wait months for an insurance payout. This sounds like a letter I had from the DVLA while waiting for my driving licence … “We have received information that you need to drive a modified car …” The modification was that I have to drive an automatic transmission, and I gave them the information. Bureaucrats (Spits on floor) Geoff
Firstly , sorry mods for my foul mouthed outburst on explaining FISH last night , i should have done it like you did lol .
Secondly Sarah its ok , ive been sat here on full pay for 5 months and it will take another year to discharge me , its costing an awful amount of money for me to do nothing . My primary job is a weapons instructor so im not insured to pick a weapon up or enter an MOD Unit unescorted (brain damaged ).
He told me this … They received an anonymous report that I work in my garden, I saw wood and climb ladders. I walk around normally in the front in the road.
Well there you go - fascinating!
We have wood delivered all the time because we have an open fire, Mark is often in the back sawing wood and I am usually with him.
Up ladders - UP LADDERS! UP LADDERS??? Hee hee haa haa …up ladders!
Well yes with the help of my sticks I do sometimes manage to walk to the car and I sometimes stupidly try to get the post in.
We can narrow this down to three neighbours because of the sawing wood which is done in an area only three could see or know about.
1 A bloke who we love living next to a geezer who smokes, drinks and smokes some very funny smelling oddities. He did go funny on us a few months ago and we couldn’t work out why he suddenly cold shouldered us. He’s OK now though, he’s back to normal.
2 A couple we had a boundary dispute with which we won. Our solicitor sorted them out but they argued the blazes for ages over the fence. They moved out a few months ago.
3 The new neighbours - lovely people but they will have heard the sawing wood because ‘we’ (I do try to help) saw wood regularly.
The bloke from THE FRAUD SQUAD said he gets these all the time and he is closing the case and he gets these all the time.
I told him about the boundary dispute and his words were - " Well, there you go then".
There we have it, I have been reported by a neighbour.
I feel very strange now. Because I can only suspect who it is but don’t actually know, I now feel I don’t want to know any of the neighbours.
I feel scared to even go it into the garden…who is watching?
But my neurologist knows that I like gardening and she told me to do what I can. I do keep a nice garden and try my best out there with hubby doing the labouring and things I can’t do. I’ve got to prune back the holly bushes soon and now I don’t want to do it. It’s not as if I brazenly walk out there climb a ladder and wield lopping shears. To do that I’ve got to find a way and think of a strategy. I can’t just do it. I weed and prune and plant things - always with hubby with me. My neuro told me to do this.
It’s my garden and it’s the one thing I can do that gives me pleasure and satisfaction when I see a nice garden. If I didn’t have hubby I couldn’t even get out there. Because I don’t know who the neighbour is I am now well and truly suspicious of both sides.
I doubt that very much. I don’t suppose I will ever find out who it actually was so how can I even have a word with them?
The DWP man said the report was anonymous.
Nobody even knows that I claim disability benefits. If anybody ever asks I tell them that we live on our pensions. It’s nobody’s business. None of my neighbours know that I claim disability benefits and the person who made this report must have guessed.
I think I’d ask for a letter form the DWP asking them what was the conclusion of their enquiry. Also ask for a copy of any record they have made of the phone converstaion.
I’d question why they acted on an anonymous complaint - is that normal procedure - if they were acting on an anonymous complaint they should have done their own checking up first?
re the inheritance - check if PIP - DLA are means tested - hopefully the inheritance shouldn’t make any difference.