I have a client who failed to attend medical, didn't do anything about it for ages
we have put in a late appeal which is slowly progressing
I advised her to reclaim in the meantime, and ask for the claim to go from the date after the last claim stopped, this she has done.
two probs have arisen , one concerning payment of IB which I will deal with in this posting, the other concerns med certifcates - I have done a separte posting about that
problem -
IB office tell me she cannot recieve any money until after a decision has been made on her incapacity, which will probably be after her next medical - several weeks from now.
they cannot treat her as unfit for work on the basis that she supplys med.cert's, as they would if it were an entirely new claim, and pay her for the period before she is examined.
I can see the logic of this - i.e. the last claim was stopped because she failed to attend a medical, so why should they resume paying her until she is examined. I am also assured by learned ex-collegues that this is correct.
However, I cannot see in the regs any bit that says they havn't got to pay her, can anyone help?
Jim Cook
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