Three cheers for cheelu

Ditto. The trouble is that after 365 days if you're on WRAG you only get income related rate. If you're in the support group, you get the full rate +. Trouble is , schedule 3 ie support group is very hard to get into and a lot of people do not even realise that there is more than one rate as DWP don't tell them. The first they know is when their money gets stopped or reduced!

Thanks nellie will try and find thatxxxx

jeni nellieSmol On the World at One Radio 4. today, Micheal Meacher was criticising the way ATOS works. I don't know if you heard it or could get it on "listen again".

cheelu GNet can be such a comforting place.

Oh my word, what! I want to cry.. I have lived 51 and a bit years and never been treated so nice...... thank you for all the lovely things you have said xxxxx

I am so happy that people on GN think I'm ok.. it feels amazing.. x x

jeni thank you, that is much appreciatedxx

Or pm me with number if you want to talk!

Oh! Go to CAB and see if in their opinion you should be in support group!

jeni just realised am on income based ESA not the contribution based,was,originally on incapacity benefitxxxxx

jeni I didn't appeal as my anxiety and depression is the reason I am on it,what hope do I stand when people who have really bad physical problems like standing,walking etc,my problem occurs under pressure, tiredness,stress,in fact anything outside my daily norm,I would love to return to work but after loads of tears and a realisation today of my limitations I realise voluntary work is the best option for me as I am more in control and I am allowed to do this as a work placement with a view may be of paid employment at some point,xxxxxxx

soop we where playing that game where you put a sticker on another persons head and they have to guess who/what they are......he was hard pushed to find he was a dustbin liner the more the wine flowed the sillier the game

NellieSmol...the text message had me in stiches. All that mattered, is that you were enjoying yourself.

Trouble is its time related. Did you appeal the WRAG? And do you think you should have been in the support group?

Thanks anno I have also got my eye on the main chance so I know what if anything I am entitled to when I become a fully fledged pensioner..

Smol - you are working so hard at trying to get a job that you really are earning your ESA! I love your account of the courses that they think up! Thank goodness you can joke about it all - otherwise you'd be making us cry. I hope that AgeUK likes you - don't see why not. The benefits system is a minefield, but I'm sure you can negotiate it! ((((hugs))))

Smol Respect!

Pedants Alert cradle marks off his A**exx

nelliesmol has been job hunting ,and going on courses devised by the government to teach granny how to suck eggs,and get NVQ'S in toilet attendancy,be an apprentice shelf stacker,being interviewed by some snotty nosed oik who as mum would say hasn't lost the cradle marks of his A**e. .
We have to put in at least 16 hours job search a week to comply with the ESA ruling that I am in the WRAG group.
Have an interview to volunteer for age uk next week,helping with benefit advice..
DB and SIL have been staying for our combined birthday ( me and brother) can recall texting an extremely squiffy message to soop'on Saturday night

Couldn't have put it more succinctly, gracesmum Anyone know what NellieSmol is up to? I miss her worldly-wise threads.

That's what makes GN stimulating - mature and informed people talkingaload--of--piffle--letting--their--hair--down enjoying intelligent discussions

Agreed!

May we please go back to being our "normal, slightly chaotic selves?". It was so much more fun and definetly more interesting...

It's OK - it can be hard to tell...

Ok, sorry

Ella, that was not nitpicking - I genuinely wanted to know how/why an inflection could give rise to a 'pedant alert'! For all I knew, pedantry could stray into all sorts of areas other than language...

JO7 I think I am coming down on you side here. Just a few too many pretty kittens and cute labrador pups of late.
We need the odd Rotweiler moment or our brains will shrink.