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Dear members, If you are subject to injury awards and have been or likely to be reviewed I would recommend that you read this from Gordon Donaldson. If anyone does have a query about this I will gladly pass your e-mail onto him. Brian Marshall

Dear Brian,
The following just might be of value to some of our members who like myself have been subject to the Injury Award Review process instigated by the current incompetent raft of greedy politicians who form our government and who seemingly prefer to support and reward the feckless and long term useless.

My award was savaged to what can only be described as worthless proportions after being reviewed by a medical practitioner who I have never met and who quite clearly was working to a set agenda.

When notified of my new banding which amounted to a few pence, but failed to describe how the calculation had been made, I called County Hall and spoke with a very helpful person who likewise could not really explain what the calculus was in determining the amount. However, agreeing that the cut was to say the least " savage" he revealed that part of the cut was based on the "benefits" I was receiving. "What benefits are those" I asked. Incapacity and Industrial, was the response, and I was enlightened, that these were based on letters from some years previous (I won't say how many) My response was that I had never, as far as I was concerned, ever received any benefits and I retired in 1996.

To cut a long story short, it was determined that for a number of years my pension had been deducted by the amount of the so called benefits each month. Having proved that I had never received any benefits I have received substantial recompense and my pension has been readjusted.

Therefore, members who feel that there Injury on duty award has been, like mine, drastically reduced should just query whether or not they have suffered the same fate. If I had not asked the right questions the local authority would not have notified me and if I had gone to my grave, my wife would not have received the back pay.

The man at County Hall indicated I was not the first. Probably not the last either.

With best regards,
Gordon Donaldson
Secretary

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