I received my atip file today and went through the notes. One thing the adjudicator mentioned was that because of my degree in education I have “an advanced level of essential/transferable skills with the expectation that I can pursue alternate/suitable work or retraining. I understand what she is saying here but what I don’t understand is how my degree lessens my disability and gives me the greater opportunity to work when I can’t even preform basic care. Can someone explain how this is useful criteria for them and how do I mitigate this when I physically can’t work as per my doctors thank you
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My immediate response would be “Exactly what other job could I gainfully be employed at now or be retrained to do with my current functional limitations”.
Did they specify what other jobs they thought you could do in your file? If they didn’t then that’s a huge error on their part.
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Thank you for your response. That’s exactly my question haha I’m not sure how my education level is relevant at this point since I can’t work due to disability.
No there were no jobs specified in my file just what I quoted there and that I should be able to work any other job in the future because of my degree.
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Yeah, based on that I’d say you’ve got lots of ammo for an appeal.
I would make a list of all the vague assumptions they have put into file and counter them stating your current and forseeable future limitations/functionality make those assumption invalid.
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Thank you for your insight, I had no idea that they needed to list jobs. They just kept saying my education level makes it easier somehow for me to get a job I can work.
They also copied and pasted info from my specialists report to use in their notes but omitted one very important piece of information which blew my mind.
They definitely minced words and selectively chose the information from my doctors report it was very insightful
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