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Originally Posted by Pyramid*

I'd like to ask how you seem to be so certain that 'I was received better than anyone else'. I didn't intimate that - I said that I personally didn't find it intrusive - neither did I find it intrusive when asked about very and intimate personal matters - I didn't find it intrusive because I knew they had to ask - in order to ascertain.

Pyramid,I didn't say I was certain, I said it appeared you had been received better with your knowledge as opposed to the point I made as to the mans friend not being able to easily give his knowledge of his former workmates plight. It's a very serious subject and you said yourself you didn't find it intrusive. Therefore since you were acknowledged and listened to at the assessment I then assumed you had been more involved in the assessment even in part as to just explaining your Mother's problems at the time.

What happened in the case I was on about was that my Mum's neighbours friend had felt he was intruding and that the interviewer made him feel that way,eventually after more than once trying to, he was listened to in the end thankfully.

However, your case and my case differ in that only from what I can see you were able to easily,(thankfully), relay your Mother's condition,in the case I posted that was not the case without some effort.

I don't find the idea of the questioning intrusive, of course they need to know what's going on, but most things need greater elaboration as an answer than just a yes or no,people with Dementia are likely to do just that,use a yes or no, thereby in that assessment,those yes answers given could have, for a time anyway, lost the man his benefits had he been alone for the assessment.

I think Vicky has clearly shown how bad these assessements are and the waste of time and money they are considering the high,indeed very high, number of their decisions which are overturned on appeal.

I believe checking on claimants is fine but it needs to be done sensitively,properly and not with an agenda of so many have to be declared fit for work. As Vicky pointed out, a huge percentage win their appeals against the assessments so something is clearly massively wrong with them.
There must be.