Actually the card read, written in handwriting 'From your ever loving mother'!
Thanks for your good wishes Snodderley.
'Jobcenter plus' our government's work and sickness dept have just rung me up. She said at the moment the independent assessor said I can't go onto the support group, but they are not forcing me to find work. So they ain't putting me onto jobseekers allowance which would mean I'm fit for work.
They want to keep me as it is (the same rate of benefit) and get reassessed in 4 to 6 months time. I said your employer the UK Government says the following: for the first 13 weeks we will pay you £71 per week Employment and Support Allowance. After this period and you’ve been assessed we will award you one of the following: Put you on to Job seeker’s allowance £71 per week, Put you in the Support group £105.15 per week, or work based group £99.15 per week.
She said to me you are still not fit for work, and it sounds as though your condition as worsened. So we’ll assesses you again (4 to 6 Months time) in the mean time keep going to the doctor’s and keep them investigating your condition! You see after 13 weeks ESP stops and I should be on one of the three above options. She said I’m not fit to work so that rules out Jobseekers allowance. So I should be in either the Work based group (£99.15 per week) or the Support group (£105.05 per week) which she said I wasn’t considered ill enough to go into.
So I should not be on Employment and Support Allowance (it’s for the first 13 weeks only). I’ll keep chasing them. But the Government use a premium rate phone number so it costs to ring them.
I’ve also tried to sort my tax out, and this premium rate phone line netted the UK Government £33 million pounds ($53.9649 million Dollars) for 2012. Our Country is not called ‘Rip off Britain for nothing’!
