Disability Benefit for Migraine?

migraines are awful. things that are common in workplaces, like strong lighting, general chatter can set them off. Pure hell. poor thing

You think a person with a first class degree and a masters wouldn't work if they could? You think she wanted to put in all that hard work, time and money just so she could claim benefit at the end of it?

Well her justification for being on ESA is that most of her migraine triggers are enviromental i.e. lighting, noise, pollution, air quality and so most work enviroments such as offices, call centres and shops cause her migraines to become constant. She says that on days she feels well she could work in the right enviroment i.e. from home but that her condition is too unpredictable to hold down a job i.e. she would always be needing time off sick and that in her experiance once she mentions her migraines (due to requesting adjustments) to a prospective employer they lose interest in her either never hiring her or leting her go as soon as they can.

I can see how this is problematic however this isn't what ESA is for, it doesn't exist for people whose condition makes it difficult for them to find and keep a job it is for those too ill to work period. The truth is she is fit to work at least half the month and could be working, it isn't the problem of ATOS to find her a job that is down to job centre plus, it maybe difficult but I can't see how she is entitled to ESA at all.

She has spoke about working self employed using her degree however she would most likely not make enough money doing so and when the universal credit comes in she would need to be making full time minimum wage to qualify for any benefits so I just don't see that working out, as far as I can see she intends to stay on disability benefits long term or as long as she can get away with it.

A migraine is basically a bad headache, yes it is classed as a neurological issue but really it boild down to a worse than usual sore head, which we all get at times.

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You think a person with a first class degree and a masters wouldn't work if they could? You think she wanted to put in all that hard work, time and money just so she could claim benefit at the end of it?

I went through a phase of having them myself and they're not only inconvenient, at times they're quite scary when you have them with the aura.

I know a girl who has a 1st class degree and a masters but who doesn't work, she has in the past but she is now too ill with migraine and she is in the Support Group of ESA which is the highest rate of care.

I am shocked someone can get ESA at all for migraine, after all doesn't everyone get headaches? Also I really thought they were cracking down on who could and could not get these benefits. It is true that she is ill quite a few days a month with bad migraines, she is on various medications and sees a neurologist every few months but she is also often out and about, she goes to the local council gym which she gets her membership of very cheaply, she takes an evening class, goes to art galleries, the cinema, even the odd gig although she cannot drink.

Other than that she is at home, reading and taking it easy so she doesn't get a migraine.

Surely this is a sign that opposed to all the bad press in the media about ATOS and the DWP being to hard on claiments that they should in fact be doing much more to make people who could be working, work!

you are a definate sociopath

cannot empathise

get yourself checked out asap

Well I think that is unfair, if I were a sociopath I might be able to clain for ESA myself by the sounds of things but rather I work for a living.

I have found out talking to my mother over the weekend who is a friend of her mothers that she also has dyspraxia although I am not sure how this really effects her considering her degrees etc. Apparently it impacts on her functionality.

Anyway she sounds to me like lazy girl riding out the recession on benefits.

OP, you clearly don't have the slightest idea of what you're talking about. If you think she wouldn't want a normal job and a normal life, please think again. I suffer from a chronic illness that kept me in hospital for five years, and I've had people say behind my back that they would want to swap, because I didn't have to get up in the morning and could be 'lazy' all I wanted. I would have given anything for a normal life, for a job, to be able to go to university. Anything. Please be careful before you judge - you don't know everything, so don't act like you do.

I've had people say behind my back that they would want to swap, because I didn't have to get up in the morning and could be 'lazy' all I wanted. I would have given anything for a normal life, for a job, to be able to go to university. Anything. Please be careful before you judge - you don't know everything, so don't act like you do.

Well I think that is unfair, if I were a sociopath I might be able to clain for ESA myself by the sounds of things but rather I work for a living.

I have found out talking to my mother over the weekend who is a friend of her mothers that she also has dyspraxia although I am not sure how this really effects her considering her degrees etc. Apparently it impacts on her functionality.

Anyway she sounds to me like lazy girl riding out the recession on benefits.