they think we are all mugs

But she only said May, she did not say which year.[:D]

Spoke to Andi (she was very polite and as helpful as they are allowed to be) this morning. The other week I was told my case was with the DM, but today it had still not reached the desk of a DM. I asked why it was taking so long as they had an extra 24 staff to deal with all the claims. WHAT extra 24 staff??, Andi said she would check with a manager as she was unware of any extra staff. An hour later she rang back and confirmed NO extra staff had been employed to the expo team? but she did say that they expect to have paid back everybody the money by the end of May.

Hi Tony I was warned a long time ago that once a certain person won their claim, we would not see them for dust......How right they were. I understand what you are saying about the Expoteam working to get our money back to October 2007 (but I do not think there are actually rushing), but where does it leave us now in getting our money back to our departure date from the UK. Are we ALL having to go to appeal? I think we can push them because they put us all on hold for 8 months under the pretext of 'Lead Cases'. Together We Have Won........Even Though Rats and Sinking Ships Come To Mind

Well Tina, very different numbers that I have just been given. Through the FOI I asked  " for the number of DLA claimants living outside of Great Britain but within the EEU that have been rejected since the European Court of Justice Ruling of 18th October 2007. Due to the DWP guidelines of (i) not appealing within one month of the original decision and (ii) not been in the UK for at least 26 weeks out of the last 52 weeks."  and the reply from Wendy Kettle was:   Since the European Court of Justice judgement on 18th October 2007, 760 people have been notified of a decision to disallow Disability Living Allowance or Attendance Allowance because the customer did not meet the legal requirements relating to past presence in Great Britain. 450 of these customers had requested reinstatement of benefit outside of the time frames for appealing decisions laid down in legislation.   This reply was dated 29th May, but only emailed to me today 5th June.   But something very strange has happened at the Expo office..........I sent an email to them this morning, on another matter, but it was read within 3 minutes and a confirmation of my request was emailed to me in 2 hours even though I never even requested confirmation as it is normally a waste of time.   

Time to add my two pennies worth, having been reading the forum for about one month. I have had the usual rejection letter( delivered 3 weeks after the decision date) and now waiting the result of my appeal, the outcome of which will come as no surprise!!!!!! But today I have requested under the freedom of information act, the number of claimants rejected by the DWP guidelines of (i) not appealing within one month and (ii) the 26/52 week rule. I think the % will be very high and show the guidelines are not fair. Keep fighting the Ba.......ds, until we get what is rightfully ours.