Disability allowance refusal

olliesgirl55

Hi I got a letter stating I was refused Disability based on medical grounds. I intend to appeal this because I feel that they are wrong. Do I send my appeal to Longford or straight to D'Ollier House in Dublin?
I will be submitting a new letter from my GP along with a letter from my Consultant along with a personal letter explaining how my illness effects my daily life. Do I need to submit anything else?

Any advice would greatly be appreciated.

mrsbyrne

olliesgirl55 wrote: »

Hi I got a letter stating I was refused Disability based on medical grounds. I intend to appeal this because I feel that they are wrong. Do I send my appeal to Longford or straight to D'Ollier House in Dublin?
I will be submitting a new letter from my GP along with a letter from my Consultant along with a personal letter explaining how my illness effects my daily life. Do I need to submit anything else?

Any advice would greatly be appreciated.

IMHO send it to the Appeals Office in D'Olier St.Is there a social worker involved? if so a letter from them would be helpfull.
Theres nothing to stop you sending the whole thing to both places at the same time by the way.

olliesgirl55

mrsbyrne wrote: »

IMHO send it to the Appeals Office in D'Olier St.Is there a social worker involved? if so a letter from them would be helpfull.
Theres nothing to stop you sending the whole thing to both places at the same time by the way.

No I don't have a social worker however I do have a Consultant and I am seeing an Occupational Therapist for the first time tomorrow.

olliesgirl55

olliesgirl55 wrote: »

No I don't have a social worker however I do have a Consultant and I am seeing an Occupational Therapist for the first time tomorrow.

I will send appeal to both places. Hopefully they will reconsider because right now I am going out of my mind with the stress.

Thanks for the advice.

compo1

olliesgirl55 wrote: »

No I don't have a social worker however I do have a Consultant and I am seeing an Occupational Therapist for the first time tomorrow.

Maybe you could talk to your medical people. They might be able to provide further details that would help your case.

olliesgirl55

compo1 wrote: »

Maybe you could talk to your medical people. They might be able to provide further details that would help your case.

Thanks they already did. Getting supporting documentation from my Consultant for free my GP did another letter and charged me for it. Hopefully it will be enough.Having a long term illness is hard enough as is but this process is enough to drive somebody to jump off a bridge. I have been so stressed out about this. I will update when I hear back with regards to appeal although I believe those are taking around 30 weeks at this time or have they sped that process up?

jimmy 2

olliesgirl55 wrote: »

Thanks they already did. Getting supporting documentation from my Consultant for free my GP did another letter and charged me for it. Hopefully it will be enough.Having a long term illness is hard enough as is but this process is enough to drive somebody to jump off a bridge. I have been so stressed out about this. I will update when I hear back with regards to appeal although I believe those are taking around 30 weeks at this time or have they sped that process up?

dont hold ur breath waiting 5 mts and still lost my review even with new edivance gone into them after been 2 yrs on illness benefit and nearly 5 years on indavility pension gone bk to appeals office since monday all new info gone into them my illness is worst than it ever was but i dont hold out much hope off getting my inavidilty pension bk its a joke i have to wait 9 weeks for blood tests to prove how bad i am but joan burton thinks once your not on your death bed you are able to work even though theres no jobs

olliesgirl55

jimmy 2 wrote: »

dont hold ur breath waiting 5 mts and still lost my review even with new edivance gone into them after been 2 yrs on illness benefit and nearly 5 years on indavility pension gone bk to appeals office since monday all new info gone into them my illness is worst than it ever was but i dont hold out much hope off getting my inavidilty pension bk its a joke i have to wait 9 weeks for blood tests to prove how bad i am but joan burton thinks once your not on your death bed you are able to work even though theres no jobs

I feel for you Jimmy. I do hope you get a good outcome in the end.
I spoke to my consultant and she thinks the new medical evidence should be good enough. She also says my condition is one that is listed as a qualifier for disability allowance. I will just keep my fingers crossed. It is alot of stress dealing with this. I have a lot of doctors appointments, regular blood tests and other therapies which is a full time job. There is no way I could handle working anytime soon. If I got a job tomorrow I'd wouldn't last a week the state I am in now.
Good luck with your appeal Jimmy.

jimmy 2

my review was lost and three is still medical evidence to be given into them what does that tell you these people are making desk desisions in longford on a person that lives in dublin its very wrong what there doing on people

olliesgirl55

jimmy 2 wrote: »

my review was lost and three is still medical evidence to be given into them what does that tell you these people are making desk desisions in longford on a person that lives in dublin its very wrong what there doing on people

Are you sending your appeal to D'Olier house in Dublin? Also I read somewhere you can request an oral hearing.

Fred Swanson

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Synyster Shadow

Just a quick question if your based in longford and have to apply there then what can you do to help your application

Fred Swanson

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Synyster Shadow

Is it the same with careers

Fred Swanson

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olliesgirl55

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Mrs Byrne here suggested I send the appeal to both Longford and Dublin. I am going to follow her advice. I am going to fight this all the way. I am not fit for work now and I wont be for the foreseeable future. I know this process is torture. I am not going to give up. I will see how the appeal goes.

Fred Swanson

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jimmy 2

olliesgirl55 wrote: »

Are you sending your appeal to D'Olier house in Dublin? Also I read somewhere you can request an oral hearing.

we had no choice on were the appeal went mine went to longford was told all this could take up to 2 years in all its disgraceful

jimmy 2

Fred Swanson wrote: »

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sorry i did not seek a review in longford its were mine was sent