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On Certs for 4years

  • 19-04-2008 4:47pm
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    foggy_lad
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    anyone know what the correct guidelines for invalidity pension are?

    the person involved has been on illness benefit(due to chronic back pain) for 4 years without assessment and she asked about this time delay in her local office before christmas and was sent for an "Urgent" assessment.

    this meeting with a department doctor found her fit for "other types of work" but on appeal was found "incapable of work" and this decision was givin with a review date one year from now

    she has also applied for invalidity pension but has been told she does not meet the medical conditions but i got the following from the DFSA website

    "Medical condition

    A person must be regarded as permanently incapable of work, which is defined as:

    incapacity for work of such a nature that the likelihood is that the person will be incapable of work for life

    OR

    an incapacity which has existed for 12 months prior to the date of claim, and where the Deciding Officer or an Appeals Officer is satisfied that the person is likely to be unable to work for 1 year from the date of claim."


    so going by the departments guidelines my friend should be eligible?


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