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    • Yup, for goodness sake she needs to stop paying right now, DCA's are powerless, as .  Is it showing on their credit file? Best to use Check my file. All of the above advice is excellent, definitely SAR the loan company as soon as possible.
    • Hi all, I am wandering if this is appealable. It has already been through a challenge on the Islington website and the it was rejected. Basically there was a suspended bay sign on a post on Gee st which was obscured by a Pizza van. The suspension was for 3 bays outside 47 Gee st. I parked outside/between 47 & 55 Gee st. I paid via the phone system using a sign a few meters away from my car. When I got back to the car there was a PCN stuck to the windscreen which I had to dry out before I could read it due to rain getting into the plastic sticky holder.  I then appealed using the Islington website which was then rejected the next day. I have attached a pdf of images that I took and also which the parking officer took. There are two spaces in front of the van, one of which had a generator on it the other was a disabled space. I would count those as 3 bays? In the first image circled in red is the parking sign I read. In the 2nd image is the suspension notice obscured by the van. I would have had to stand in the middle of the road to read this, in fact that's where I was standing when I took the photo. I have pasted the appeal and rejection below. Many thanks for looking. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- This is my appeal statement: As you can see from the image attached (image 1) I actually paid £18.50 to park my car in Gee st. I parked the car at what I thought was outside 55 Gee st as seen in image 2 attached. When I read the PCN issued it stated there was a parking suspension. There was no suspension notice on the sign that I used to call the payment service outside number 55 Gee st. I looked for a suspension notice and eventually found one which was obscured by a large van and generator parked outside 47 Gee st. As seen in images 3 and 4 attached. I am guessing the parking suspension was to allow the Van to park and sell Pizza during the Clerkenwell design week. I was not obstructing the use or parking of the van, in fact the van was obstructing the suspension notice which meant I could not read or see it without prior knowledge it was there. I would have had to stand in the road to see it endangering myself as I had to to take images to illustrate the hidden notice. As there was no intention to avoid a parking charge and the fact the sign was not easily visible I would hope this challenge can be accepted. Many thanks.   This is the text from the rejection: Thank you for contacting us about the above Penalty Charge Notice (PCN). The PCN was issued because the vehicle was parked in a suspended bay or space. I note from your correspondence that there was no suspension notice on the sign that you used to call the payment serve outside number 55 Gee Street. I acknowledge your comments, however, your vehicle was parked in a bay which had been suspended. The regulations require the suspension warning to be clearly visible. It is a large bright yellow sign and is erected by the parking bay on the nearest parking plate to the area that is to be suspended. Parking is then not permitted in the bay for any reason or period of time, however brief. The signs relating to this suspension were sited in accordance with the regulations. Upon reviewing the Civil Enforcement Officer's (CEO's) images and notes, I am satisfied that sufficient signage was in place and that it meets statutory requirements. Whilst I note that the signage may have been obstructed by a large van and generator at the time, please note, it is the responsibility of the motorist to locate and check the time plate each time they park. This will ensure that any changes to the status of the bay are noted. I acknowledge that your vehicle possessed a RingGo session at the time, however, this does not authorize parking within a suspended bay. Suspension restrictions are established to facilitate specific activities like filming or construction, therefore, we anticipate the vehicle owner to relocate the vehicle from the suspended area until the specified date and time when the suspension concludes. Leaving a vehicle unattended for any period of time within a suspended bay, effectively renders the vehicle parked in contravention and a Civil Enforcement Officer (CEO) may issue a PCN. Finally, the vehicle was left parked approximately 5 metres away from the closest time plate notice. It is the responsibility of the driver to ensure they park in a suitable parking place and check all signs and road markings prior to leaving their vehicle parked in contravention. It remains the driver's responsibility to ensure that the vehicle is parked legally at all times. With that being said, I would have to inform you, your appeal has been rejected at this stage. Please see the below images as taken by the CEO whilst issuing the PCN: You should now choose one of the following options: Pay the penalty charge. We will accept the discounted amount of £65.00 in settlement of this matter, provided it is received by 10 June 2024. After that date, the full penalty charge of £130.00 will be payable. Or Wait for a Notice to Owner (NtO) to be issued to the registered keeper of the vehicle, who is legally responsible for paying the penalty charge. Any further correspondence received prior to the NtO being issued may not be responded to. The NtO gives the recipient the right to make formal representations against the penalty charge. If we reject those representations, there will be the right of appeal to the Environment and Traffic Adjudicator.   Gee st pdf.pdf
    • Well done.   Please let us know how it goes or come back with any questions. HB
    • Incorrect as the debt will have been legally assigned to the DCA and they are therefore now the legal creditor. Read up on debt assignment.   Andy
    • Thanks Man in the Middle and everyone it's greatly appreciated form was filled in online yesterday now just have to wait and see
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I wrote quite a lengthy post on this in the disabilities section, but in any case.

 

In a nutshell, was initially awarded lo rate care, lo rate mobility, asked them to look at it again and they awarded hi rate mobility and kept the care rate at lo rate...due to illness complications the care issue had taken on more prominence due to surgery and various complications and when they gave their decision on the lo rate care we asked for a reconsideration, this they duly did keeping the care at the lo rate and reducing the mobility back to lo rate. Because the decision had been again changed we were able to ask for a further reconsideration or go to appeal.

 

Given that it had taken them over 7 months to give their latest decision and that they dropped the mobility down to lo rate again we decided after advice to go for an appeal, they are supposed to reconsider it again anyway are they not?

 

We sent off a letter of appeal recorded delivery and we went to some length to explain why we wanted to appeal and why we thought their decision was incorrect. They had ignored several consultant letters, our own gp's comments and the comments of their own appointed doctor who came out to visit us of which all were favourable but instead based their decision to reduce mobility on the opinion of a junior consultant who has not had sight of the patient and who commented because his particular consultant/boss was on leave. The information he supplied was so incorrect it was unreal. At the same time as this they asked one of their on inhouse medical advisors to comment on what the junior consultant had said and they more or less agreed with them.

 

We of course took exception to their comments and by way of our appeal we sent in information that put these two decisions to shame and provided references from the internet and from 5 other different expert reports contained within their decisions (we applied for all the information they had based their decision upon)

 

We also provided a further report from adult social care and requested that they perhaps consider writing again to the patients own gp for a update.

 

The information from the junior consultant was so factually incorrect it was painful to read.

 

This was six weeks ago, it was delivered 3 days after we sent it. We have had no acknowledgement that they've received it, they have not as yet written to our local gp and we have not heard regarding an appeal date. Is this standard procedure?

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from what i hear that is standard procedure. It seems the DLA payments are going through a government mandated 'change' (read: f**k as many people over as you can to save us cash). This includes getting in doctors who overrule your own local GP/social worker reports based on key words.

 

the standard advice from people that i know right now is whatever you are awarded, dont fight it, especially if it contains the word 'high' anywhere - you will get less as the 'appeals' people are more ruthless then the initial assessment people. something is rotten somewhere and it will blow up this year (hopefully before the election, but im guessing its being buried for now), until then we all have to deal with it.

 

My sources: 2 kids on high rate care, low rate mobility. Wife on low rate care, hight rate mobility (care allowance reduced on appeal). Mother in law working full time for age concern who now has 100% of her time working on DLA appeals for people who cant even get out of bed and live in their own **** for several hours per day - instead of her being a 'benefits advisor'. Sister with multiple sclerosis for over 15 years now also fighting DLA/ESA who think she can work (even though she cant see out of one eye, let alone do her housework, cook herself meals or ever walk more than 2 ft.) and a mother who is so manic depressive for the last 20 years she has the crisis team visit her every night just to make sure she hasnt topped herself (who the ESA people have said is fit to work as well).

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P.S. send everything special delivery. Yes its £5 a time, and thats a lot, but nowerdays it seems the DLA people 'lose' recorded delivery letters as much as they take a c**p. send it regular post and you havent a hope in hell. recorded delivery just means it got in the door, but it can get 'lost' easlity after that. special delivery means a person accepted it and took responsibility for that letter, ensuring it will get to the right person. A load of crap, i know - it certainly doesn't work the other way around (if they send you something second class post, you received it in their books, regardless of if you didnt get it).

 

I look at this to mean either one of two things - they have so many appeals they cannot cope, or they are intentionally ignoring things that do not come special delivery.

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Hello there, sorry to hear of your problems.

 

This story arrives on the forum more or less daily and many of us have been there or are going through the same as you, so you'll have plenty of support. If I understand rightly, you've appealed the decision to a DWP Decision Maker and been declined. And now you're waiting for the tribunal date? Have the DWP sent you the Appeal pack yet?

 

People on the forum are waiting months and months for their tribunals, the service being overwhelmed by the problems Shamen outlines so pithily.

 

Please post any other questions you have.

 

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Ok, bit of an update, not sure what they've done or why they've requested, is it good or bad?

 

Been through the motions, (see first post in this thread) and sent them a letter appealing, that was a month or so ago and heard nothing until today when we get a letter from the Medical Services saying that the DWP have contacted them with a view to another appointment to assist them in deciding entitlement fot DLA (this will be the second one in 10 months)

 

Given that we've sent them an appeal notice along with our reasons for wanting the appeal then is this the norm for the DWP to send out an Approved Health Care Professional before even getting an appeal date?

 

Also, are these AHCP's as good as a Dr? I seem to remember in the DWP's contraversial decision and how they reached it that an AHCP had commented that things were fine and that certain elememts of the disability were not related...which was altogether incorrect and in the appeal we sent ireffutable evidence to contradict that persons 'opinion'

 

Just a little concerned as to why we've now got another home examination as in is it good or bad? We don't have a problem with them visiting it's just that we want to know why and also if they're suitable qualified to arrive at an informed opinion?

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Hello. I may speak for a few people when I say that I'm not sure what your query is.

 

You might need to bear in mind that this website is manned by volunteers who will do their best to help you, if they understand what you're asking.

 

Can you express what you want to know any more simply, please?

 

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