To wish ATOS would leave me alone

Won't be ATOS I'd have thought, as I thought they'd given up the contract.
Write to your MP.
Get your GP to write a really strong letter

How often do these invitations arrive?

According to their website, Atos still do PIP assessments.
The nearest one to me is in Bannatyne's Health Club!

They are just beyond words vampirequeen 30 years ago my cousin with MS was forced to crawl up a flight of steps to prove she couldn't walk up them and things are still as bad today! Have you tried your MP - although if he's like ours he'll be a waste of time.

Do you go on false economy website, Vampirequeen?
You can give your story there. At least you know you are not alone, although it can sometimes be depressing.

3 years ago DH won his appeal agsinst ATOS at tribznallargely thsnks to guidance and advice from.galen for which I will be eternally grateful! But akso a letter from his consultant stating in no uncertain terms that his illness cannot be cured or treated by any conventional therapy other than another transplant for which he would no longer be cosidered in view of his considerable other health issues. Not happy reading but you would have expected that to shut them up. Huh! 2 weeks later he developed an infection( something or other megalovirus followed by pneumonia ?)which led to him being in 3 different hospitals over a period of 3 months. Blow me if ATOS didn't send us another questionnaire to fill in re what he could do as they were assessing him as "fit for work". As he was flat on his back, on IV antibiotics and needing full nursing care I filled it in for him pulling no punches. I also rang and told them what I thought of them and we never heard from them again.

Is your story on False Economy website, Soutra. It should be. They need as much ammunition as they can get to put before the government.

My understanding is that they are no longer doing reassessment exams. The backlog they have is horrendous.
Is this for ESA or DLA or PIP?
Pm me if you want any more help.

If it's just a questionnaire , I suspect they are automatically generated by the COMPUTER without any human interference instigation.
Contrary to belief, there is NOT intelligence on both sides of the screen!

According to this link the Atos contract ends altogether in 2015.

weownit.org.uk/blog/secret-government-contracts-stop-citizens-knowing-if-outsourcing-works

I do not think they have said yet who takes over from them. Perhaps if we sign enough epetitions we can get it back to the owners, Us!

They haven't. Also because of the (very long) delay that happens before the mandatory reconsideration. No appeals are getting through and no one who has been initially refused is being seen at appeal.
Unlike in the past, no money is paid in ESA until the appeal is lodged, and that can't happen until after the mandatory reconsideration.
Scuttle butt says :- no one will be given the contract until after the election.
That is assuming they can find someone to do it.
If they do, I assume they'll be employing the same people to do the examinations?
The whole system needs re-appraising. It's a mess!

A good reason for signing up to this.

weownit.org.uk/people-not-profit

So sorry about this vampirequeen.

Thanks everyone. I have to admit I was feeling very low when I posted but you've all buoyed me up a bit.

Thanks for the offer of help, Galen. I'm crossing my fingers that my GP's fax telling them I'll be incapable of dealing with the interrogation at their choice of venue and, if they insist on grilling me it has to take place at my home. Not that a nice building would make any difference but they do all their interrogations in a concrete box with bars on the windows and an airlock entrance situated in one of the most frightening areas of the city. I hope they can't be bothered to visit me and leave me alone for a while longer.

What is ATOS,please?

ATOS is a private company that thinks it is capable of running our public services. Unfortunately the government thinks it is, too, and gives it lots of contracts.
This is what it does to ordinary people who are disabled or unemployed, etc.
https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.politics.co.uk/news/2014/06/19/trapped-in-a-bureaucratic-nightmare-as-money-runs-out-the-re&sa=U&ei=NVf-U6hux5Vqu4SC2AU&ved=0CAkQFjAC&client=internal-uds-cse&usg=AFQjCNH7bWeChk08cy7kgGn2RtLFuZ-i8A

Hang on in there Vampirequeen. The UN might come to your rescue.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2735958/UN-sparks-fury-launching-human-rights-investigation-Britain-s-treatment-disabled.html

You do realise that's a DM link I've given. Washing my mouth out with wine.

Thank you,Durhamjen.

30 years ago my cousin with MS was forced to crawl up a flight of steps to prove she couldn't walk up them

Disgraceful - that saddens me so much, they can't even allow a person to retain a shred of dignity

Tory MP Michael Ellis said: ‘This politically motivated loony left decision brings the UN organisation in to disrepute.

No, it doesn't Mr Ellis. It tells the British people that someone is looking out for them - especially important given the amount of cuts and pressures being applied to the poorest members of society whilst leaving the richest virtually untouched.

I wrote above that Atos had given up the contract to run the DWP contract.

weownit.org.uk/blog/secret-government-contracts-stop-citizens-knowing-if-outsourcing-works

However, it now seems that the contract has been given to an American company instead of the French company Atos. This is by the government that does not like foreigners. Why does it not like British companies.

I may just be getting old and past it, but I just can't see howcontracts can be given to foreign companies when there must be people in this country that could do it. How does it make economic sense? An American company presumably expects to make a profit from it - why can't that money go to a British company!

Sorry! I will keep trying to apply logic

Maximus has been involved in several scandals in its native US — from mishandling public money to alleged falsification of health insurance claims, apparently!

Frying pan and fire spring to mind...

Durham
This is the first I've heard of this.
Can you give me the source please.
I only heard today that appeals are unlikely to return to normal for at least two years.