Treatment Of Army Veteran...

[agchristie]

Simply a disgrace...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/12153436/Bed-ridden-Army-veteran-suffering-from-Alzheimers-sent-back-to-work-assessment-by-DWP.html

[Sqad]

Well........yes the DWP odes know that he has Altzheimers, but there is Altzheimers and Altzheimers with different rates of degeneration and debilities.

Surely the DWP is entitled to an update.

[jno]

being an army veteran doesn't make it any worse; lots of ill people - sometimes fatally ill - are told to get back to work by the government and its agencies. There seem to be serious problems with the system; there's an assumption that everyone is a malingerer.

[Gavmacp]

Why don't they liaise with GP's?

[mikey4444]

I agree...is a ruddy disgrace. As if this family doesn't have enough problems already.

[hc4361]

How often does this form have to be completed? Hopefully they've kept a copy of the last one they sent off and just have to copy the answers with perhaps a few modifications if he has deteriorated.

A nuisance but not a hardship. I've completed several of these forms for other people so I do know that there are lots of questions to answers but still takes less that hour.

[youngmafbog]

''I agree...is a ruddy disgrace''

Why? Fill in the form (or get someone to do it) and all will no doubt be sorted. We have to stop the fiddling and it is the fiddlers you should express your anger at.

But then of course I forgot, you like handing out taxpayers money to all and sundry dont you.

[Puzzled001]

This is just something to keep the 'Medical Professionals' employed by the DWP in a job. What medical qualifications these so-called professionals have is probably open to dispute ! a 16 year old that whilst on work experience was shown how to stick on a plaster and trained to tick boxes on a form, no doubt. They are not allowed to look at previous forms as they have no idea what the contents mean and it might confuse them. I know, I've met some.!!!!!

[Mamyalynne]

I'm afraid these form filling exercises happen all the time , yes even when you have someone sick and dying. All you can do is fill them in send them back and hope to goodness they don't lose them in the system.

It can be heartbreaking I know.

[bazwillrun]

yet we pay benefits in the millions every month to god knows how many lying immigrants of one sort or another....