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11 years 10 months ago - 11 years 10 months ago #105864 by lesjo
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Hi I have just had my assessment and have been placed in the WRAG group, trouble is I had just completed a permitted work period of 52 weeks, then have been put onto supported permitted work, which can run indefinitely. The reason I have this is because I use my own adapted home to answer phone calls and place orders for a company, I work between 10 and 14 hrs a week and get paid £90 on top of my benefits, I have tried to work in the "real world" and failed miserably, the company I work for are very generous and fully understand my disability, and so give me as much flexability to carry out these tasks as I need.
I think I would have been placed in this group because of my supported permitted work but am worried that I may be forced into interviews etc as it states in my letter, would anyone here have been in the same position, I don't mind working it gives me something to do but I don't know what to expect from the dwp, up to now I haven't heard anything from them and I had my letter a few weeks ago. thanks in advance if anyone can advise.
I think I would have been placed in this group because of my supported permitted work but am worried that I may be forced into interviews etc as it states in my letter, would anyone here have been in the same position, I don't mind working it gives me something to do but I don't know what to expect from the dwp, up to now I haven't heard anything from them and I had my letter a few weeks ago. thanks in advance if anyone can advise.
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11 years 10 months ago #105866 by Gordon
Your having done Permitted Work and currently doing Supported Permitted Work will not of itself have placed you in the WRAG, however, the work you are doing can be taken into account in regard to your meeting the ESA descriptors, as a completely silly example; if you had been a part time postman delivering letters while on PW, you should not expect to score points in the mobilising descriptor.
As you are in the WRAG you will still be expected to participate in Work Related Activity, how this may be modified by your SPW, you will need to discuss with your advisor, I have heard of cases where the voluntary work a claimant was doing was not considered appropriate by the JC+ advisor and they have been forced to do other voluntary work, I do not know whether this would apply to SPW.
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leslie wrote: Hi I have just had my assessment and have been placed in the WRAG group, trouble is I had just completed a permitted work period of 52 weeks, then have been put onto supported permitted work, which can run indefinitely. The reason I have this is because I use my own adapted home to answer phone calls and place orders for a company, I work between 10 and 14 hrs a week and get paid £90 on top of my benefits, I have tried to work in the "real world" and failed miserably, the company I work for are very generous and fully understand my disability, and so give me as much flexability to carry out these tasks as I need.
I think I would have been placed in this group because of my supported permitted work but am worried that I may be forced into interviews etc as it states in my letter, would anyone here have been in the same position, I don't mind working it gives me something to do but I don't know what to expect from the dwp, up to now I haven't heard anything from them and I had my letter a few weeks ago. thanks in advance if anyone can advise.
Your having done Permitted Work and currently doing Supported Permitted Work will not of itself have placed you in the WRAG, however, the work you are doing can be taken into account in regard to your meeting the ESA descriptors, as a completely silly example; if you had been a part time postman delivering letters while on PW, you should not expect to score points in the mobilising descriptor.
As you are in the WRAG you will still be expected to participate in Work Related Activity, how this may be modified by your SPW, you will need to discuss with your advisor, I have heard of cases where the voluntary work a claimant was doing was not considered appropriate by the JC+ advisor and they have been forced to do other voluntary work, I do not know whether this would apply to SPW.
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11 years 10 months ago - 11 years 10 months ago #105868 by lesjo
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Thank you Gordon, I do hope that will not be the case as this job is a niche which took me years to find. I know from the disability advisor at the job center, I have been placed in this group for 18 months but is there a way to ascertain how many points I had and why I had been placed in the wrag group in the first place.
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11 years 10 months ago #105873 by slugsta
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You can write to DWP and make a Subject Access Request for all the paperwork associated with your ESA claim
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