Hi,
I was wondering if anyone had any experience of fightback4justice, they have online support for claiming benefits including pip.
Thanks Christine
Hi Christine,
I haven’t personally, so I cant be of much help on that front. However, benefits and work has been of invaluable assistance in my recent pip claim ( had my assessment yesterday - eeeee!!!) and though you have to pay a small sum to join them, I think its well worth it.
Here’s the weblink:
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Thanks,
I had my assessment a couple of weeks ago, got a copy of the report which was full of lies. Not got an award as yet and dont think i will be awarded anything. Looks like i will go for a re-consideration and thats what i need help wi
Christine
Hi Christine
I totally agree with Minxie. Benefits and Work is an excellent website. There is some info available for nothing, but joining gives you access to all their guides for a yearly cost of about £20.
I hadn’t heard of fightback4justice before today and I’m a little suspicious that they claim to be a ‘not for profit’ organisation, yet charge either £4.99 per month (almost £60 for a year) for their basic package or the huge sum of £11.99 per month (£143.88 pa!). They don’t seem to have any information available for nothing, so it’s impossible to check whether their guides, forms, services, etc are correct, up to date, useful or indeed worth the rather high cost.
They have a brief bio of the people involved in the website. But have no surnames detailed.
It may be that their service is worth the high cost. But I’m rather sceptical.
If you need help with benefit claims, try contacting your local CAB. If they can’t offer you help from a welfare benefits adviser, they may be able to steer you towards a local adviser. Those services are free. Or look at Sick or disabled people and carers - Citizens Advice which is also free. If you want detailed guides to claiming PIP or ESA, join http://www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/
Sue
Hi Sue,
I thinks there are two separate parts to fight4justice, one is the online support and the other is face to face help in completing forms. I know of someone who had the face to face support to complete a dla form, but dont know of anyone that has downloaded the support packages.
With the benefitsandwork guides do they give examples of how to word things as its that area that im having difficulty with.
You can get one persons take on fight4justice here:
Geoff
Thanks Geoff,
Thats a worrying story…iv looked on facebook and there seems to be some genuine support. I thought id be able to pay for one months subscription only but thats not the case, its monthly for 12 months.
Have a look at the benefits and work website. They do have some sample pages from their guides, so at least you can get an idea about what you’re paying for (which is one of my concerns about fight4justice).
In your position, I think the first place you should be trying to get help from is your local CAB. They may be able to help you with your reconsideration. Don’t forget you only have one calendar month to request a reconsideration though. If the CAB can’t help, and can’t suggest any other local organisation who can help you, then think out paying money for an online support service. However, I do think the higher rate of fight4 is a bit much for most benefit claimants to fork out. And that’s without the kind of example Geoff has come across with regard to personal attacks etc.
But ultimately it’s up to the individual, it may be that the service people are getting from fight4justice is in fact worth it. I have no personal experience of them, only my general feeling about the cost.
Sue
Hi Sue,
I nearly signed up and then realised it was for 12 months. I will look at the benefits and work site, only wish id have done my homework before i claimed.
Christine
Taking money for people on benefits at a rate of £12 /month rather than making it PAYG is worrying. I don’t know about them. Their website offers nothing unless you pay to join. Literally nothing! It makes you join first so there is no free advise or friendly preamble, nothing! So you pay up and of course desperate, frightened, vulnerable people might well pay up.
It looks to me like a back door way of taking money from the vulnerable.
You can bet that if you join you will then see success stories. However anyone can post success stories.
After seeing the Facebook exchange and the way they ask for money I suggest it’s a money raking organisation.
Flo
I have decided to get info from benefitsandwork. Fightback would have to be a pretty big organisation to offer the type of support they are offering. I rang them a few times to ask a few questions, but no -one answered and no called me back.
A very wise decision, Christine,
I have just read through fight4justice’s Terms and Conditions. They seem to be designed to protect fight4justice from just about everything. caveat emptor
Geoff
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