Epilepsy sufferer harrassed by DWP and job centre

Reblogged from Benefit Tales:

Back in February, my boyfriend won his tribunal after a lengthy appeals process. He suffers from epilepsy and has various underlying health issues as a result of it. He was placed into the Word Related Assistance Group  but was too physically and emotionally exhausted to fight to get into the support group and was just so relieved to finally have his money reinstated.

However, he is being constantly harassed by both the job centre and the work programme providers to attend the work programme meetings. He hasn’t been well but no one is listening. He even wrote a letter of complaint to the job centre about how he felt they were taking no heed of his ill health and they promptly ignored it. His doctor is appalled at what is going on and has issued a 3 month sick note for him which he sent to the DWP. He has since had a letter back from the DWP totally ignoring the sick note but telling him that as he is in WRAG, he must attend the work programme or he will be sanctioned.

Can they blatantly ignore sick notes? What can he do? His appointment is next week and he is worrying himself sick over the whole thing.

From the facebook page ‘Atos Miracles’ 16th July 2013