Thanks King. We have very rarely an experiment. Maybe 3 or 4 a year but I was excluded from all classes which are 99% theory. Unfortunately there has been nothing offered to me.

Hi, I just wanted to know if anyone has had the same experience or has any information on what to do about this. At the start of my college course I informed them that I had epilepsy. I needed a few days off because of it and then I received an email in October from my tutor telling me I had been removed from the course. I hadn't been offered a chance to explain or offered any student support services before, or offered any reasonable adjustments. I was told I might be able to get back onto the course if I was able to supply a letter from a doctor stating I would not have any more issues with the seizures. The person who told me this worked in healthcare and knew this was impossible. After a week I was able to force them to get me back on the course. Then around January I was excluded from classes until I had a risk assessment for a few days. I have now been told I have to have 100% attendance regardless of any epilepsy issues or be removed from the course. Any advice on this? Thanks

Thanks all, I shall check into those suggestions. I just find it a little bit worrying when they say it is reasonable that I knew about this. It certainly wasn't to me. Especially as they had stopped my benefit last year citing that they had information my income had changed and once I sent in my income details they reinstated the claim back to £5 less than what I was getting so it didn't raise any suspicions that I was getting more than I should have. I have put in my income details from wage slips on the direct.gov site and it's tallying up with what I have been getting. It's something I did when the claim was stopped to check and it came up with the same result.

That's great thanks estellyn I will do that asap. Hopefully they can realise that it's an error on their end as my income does simply not pay the rent and standard bills/food.

Yeah I was given one and the figures they are quoting are much higher than I was paid. All I can do is show my wage slips and bank statements and hope it was a council error. How could the HMRC figures be incorrect? Does that happen often?

Hi, So I received a letter telling me my HB was being over paid to the tune of £3.5K to my shock. My income has not changed at all and I had a review in the Autumn and they confirmed I was getting the right amount. Now they are saying they have received information from HMRC and have reduced my entitlement and told me I have to pay the money back. However I'm certain something is wrong somewhere. I have not had a pay rise for years and the gov.uk website HB calculator confirms I was getting the correct amount based on my income not the amount the council are claiming I should have been receiving. My benefit was stopped last year when they said they had received information that my earnings had increased but once I sent proof it was reinstated. The letter they sent said it is reasonable to assume that I knew I was being overpaid but that's rubbish considering my money has not changed and I only had it reviewed last Autumn. It goes on to say that paying back the money will not prejudice any further action they may take. I'm hoping they have made another mistake here but it's a bit worrying as I assumed they had calculated correctly and I don't want to end up in court when I have done nothing wrong because of a reasonable assumption basis. I've always been straight up with them and not lied or with held information. Any ideas or anyone with experience with this? Thanks

Hi all, I started a job a few months ago and had no problem with Epilepsy for ages but a month into the job I started having a few issues (seizures) with it. After a week my employer asked me if I had had any medical issues that they should be aware of and I told her no as I thought it was just a blip and had a bad experience at a previous job once they knew about it. I'm going to tell them now after having a few days off so they know in case it continues to be an issue but my worry is, can they sack me for not telling them about a disability when asked? Thanks

Hi all, I received a debt letter some months ago and sent the prove it letters I have never taken out those home collection loans as the APR's are horrendous. They have told me they have closed the account as they can't find the credit agreement after about two months of looking. I asked them will the debt be removed from my credit file and they sent me this: I can confirm that our letter dated the 18th September stated “At this time we have closed our file and will not make any further contact with you concerning payment against this account unless the copy of the agreement is received at some point in the future from XXXXXX." Therefore, the account could reopen should the agreement become available. However, as you have stated that you never applied for a XXXXXXX account I have passed this matter to our Fraud Team to investigate your concerns further. One of our advisors will contact you in due course." Is there anything I can do to get this removed as its hit my rating? I haven't had any contact from them since. Thanks

Hi all, I have made a claim to the employment tribunal as I feel the company I worked for had discriminated against me because of my disability. On their response they are obviously denying everything I have said but they have also added denials of allegations that I have never made. They are being represented by solicitors. Here's what they said: "It is denied that the claimant was unfairly dismissed as alleged or at all" At no point have I even mentioned it. Can I say anything about this? They have also said I cancelled all the grievance meetings (3) because I was unwell. However it was always them who cancelled it. I have the emails to prove that. I also put in another claim as they would not pay me back what I was owed. As soon as I put that in they made an offer. They response they now give in this claim is they paid me more than I asked for which is rubbish and will be on the first ET1. Will this help me in anyway? Thanks for any replies.

Yeah it would be a great result, but I don't think they are going to offer me anything. I think it's more about being able to say 'we followed procedures'.

Hi all, I asked many times whilst I was at my previous job to have a meeting about why they were not paying me correctly and sometimes not at all when I started asking for SSP yet I was ignored. I have sent a disability discrimination claim to the ET for that and other reasons which was accepted by the ET and now my former employers want to have a meeting (blimey). They kept putting if off however by cancelling right at the last minute, once when I had already left home so that, in their words "could speak to their legal advisors first". Now they have sent their response to the ET a couple of days before the deadline so I won't have a copy of it yet and they want a grievance meeting on Wednesday. I don't really know what to expect from this, or even now they have this advice whether they will try to weaken my case through my answers. I am representing myself and the judge has yet to make a decision on the case or set any conditions. Should I cancel until there is a judgement, or until I have time to look at their response to the tribunal acknowledgement? I don't really want to weaken my case by saying I no longer want a meeting but I don't want the meeting to be used to weaken my case. Any help will be really appreciated.

Thanks for your help. They are a claims management company so I'm sure they will make it very difficult for me. Should it be in a certain order? Or put into seperate sections?

Hi, I'm preparing everything for a disability discrimination tribunal and I wondered what should normally be in the bundle. Is it all the evidence to help prove my case or is it something standardised? Thanks for any help.

Hi all, I have had some problems with work since November as I needed to take time off due to a disability. I had asked for months for SSP but they kept ignoring me and not giving a reply to my request. They then became quite nasty threatening me with dismissal even though I was following correct procedure. I eventually got some sick pay in March but they would not give me all of it and would not say in person or writing why. I got about 10 weeks SSP out of 18 weeks and supplied fit notes for another 17 days since then but they have not given me anymore nor given me a reason once again. Since March bank holidays they have not paid me for them, that's 4 in total and my contract says I should be paid but they have not paid me still nor given me a reason why. I started to go back to work recently as I am well now but they have made me redundant, they gave me the proper notice and told me I would receive any holiday that I have not taken in my final pay. They have now just told me I am not going to get anything but once again not why. I have asked and asked but they are now ignoring me. They gave me a letter telling me I would get the holiday pay. Everything was okay with them until I needed time off since November. They have not done this to anyone else and paid everyone else their holiday that is left over. When I say them I mean my manager and two company directors, mostly the directors. My manager also moaned to other people about me when I was not in saying "He did not tell us he had this when he applied for the job". They owe me over £1000 but are telling me they are only going to give me £42 and once again are not replying when asking for the reasons. I spoke to the CAB and they said it seems like a case of serious disability discrimination, unlawful deduction of wages and hurt feelings. Also they say it could be constructed dismissal hidden behind redundancy as after 10 weeks of not paying me correctly and not paying me the correct amount of SSP since November. They say I could have resigned due to breach of contract and claimed constructed dismissal. I am a bit unsure what to do really, does it seems like I have a case? It's just the stress they have caused me has made my epilepsy worse and going through a tribunal might bring it on all over again but I don't want them to get away with it and I kind of need the money they owe me at least. Thanks all.

Thanks Khuz360 it's nice to hear someone that makes me feel I have not been treated fairly. I could have just left work in November and gone on ESA and got my rent and council tax paid but I didn't want to do that. I wanted to have a chance to earn money once I was well again and just get my SSP which is a third of what I could claim on benefits. But the directors hated that and after trying to push me out which didn't work they conveniently put me in the redundancy pack. I would have been just happy to have been paid, even for the bank holidays and annual holiday. If they got mixed up over SSP and normal working days then fair enough for a week or so, but after two months it has gone too far. I don't even want the stress as it can possibly make my Epilepsy worse but I feel it's right that then feel they can treat people like this. They told me in January in a bid to get out of SSP that they are questioning the competency of my doctor and neurologist regarding the diagnosis. It's laughable really. On Monday I'm going straight to the director responsible for HR since the employed HR lady quit telling him I would like a meeting before I start work. I want at the end of the meeting to be paid or at least told I would get a bank transfer within the next few hours as I'm not going to work for free anymore. If they sack me then they sack me, but I hope that would only make my case stronger and I could use the time to get something else quicker. Thanks once again for the advice!! Sorry for the rant lol.