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Hi, just posting on behalf of a friend - who was initially referred for a WCA in spring, due to health issues the friend had been unable to attend and following being referred back to DWP and returning the BF223 eventually DWP accepted good cause. Now DWP referred again and the assessment provider had to reschedule once themselves as well as the friend had to reschedule once. Initially someone from the 3rd party assessment provider stated they would reschedule it whereas on the day when it was actually requested the person at the contact centre mentioned something about the claimant will receive another letter which has to be returned to DWP - which sounds like another BF223 (not received yet).
Now that would be quite odd and likely to contravene their own regulations given that according to DWP's own rules rescheduling once should be permitted and this should be considered as a new referral (and besides a recent FOI suggests that there is no statutory bases for DWP claiming F2F can only rescheduled once...! Unless they try to miraculously tie both referrals together but then they could construe this starting from any arbitrary time period in the past (years?!)...
Advice would be very much appreciated!
Now that would be quite odd and likely to contravene their own regulations given that according to DWP's own rules rescheduling once should be permitted and this should be considered as a new referral (and besides a recent FOI suggests that there is no statutory bases for DWP claiming F2F can only rescheduled once...! Unless they try to miraculously tie both referrals together but then they could construe this starting from any arbitrary time period in the past (years?!)...
Advice would be very much appreciated!
