Hurry up and wait...
You know the feeling. You've done the hard work. You've sweated the blood. You've finally found a supportive source of knowledge. Then some blunt Crab REMF tells you they're closed because it's Monday and they've got team building at the Ritz Carlton next week and they need to prepare with a pre-team building team building trip to Bicester to buy new Samsonites.
Anyway, I'm really sorry, my previous website host was getting expensive, so I signed up to another; that was getting complicated to move the website, so in true PTSD fashion I left the other one up and paid two subscriptions just to keep the site live. Now the original host is putting their prices up again, so I'm definitely migrating the site, but it's going to be under construction for a bit as you can't just pick up the old one and dump it on the new host for blunty reasons. The C4I lads have turned up the radios so they can't hear the SPOC phone calls, which have all moved to Skype anyway which is now being discontinued. You'll have to put a note in one of those tubes on the Lost island.
I'll get the site back up and running as soon as I can.
AFCS Help
A simple site to help you make an application to the Armed Forces Compensation Scheme
What this site is about
I launched this website in February 2022. It has been kept going by a wonderful group of supporters who want fair treatment by Veterans UK, when I couldn't afford renewed subscription fees for the site because Veterans UK kept under-assessing and delaying my AFCS decision. Oh, the delicious irony.
If you have any feedback, spot anything that is missing or incorrect, please let me know on Instagram @AFCSHelp
This is a personal site, aimed at helping you with decisions when you make an application to the Armed Forces Compensation Scheme. It was cathartic for me as the AFCS process was horrible, took years, and made me worse.
I will deal predominantly with applications to do with mental health, as that's what my application was about, but a lot of the information is generic across all types of claims.
Please note the information on this site is not legal advice and I cannot give specific advice for your claim.
I hope this site will be a down to earth, supportive source of basic information.
By way of an example, if you wanted to make a will, you could search the internet and find loads of sites giving you background information about making a will. There aren't many such sites for applying to the AFCS.
I hope that this site will give you a little bit of background to what's involved in an AFCS claim. With making a will, even after reading about wills online, you'd still get a professional, probably a lawyer, to draft your actual will and make sure it was witnessed properly.
There are various organisations that can help with an AFCS claim, and hopefully I explain here how they can help, and the differences between them.
So grab a brew or wet, and skip straight to the Awards page to see how much you could get... Just kidding, you've already been there and now you've come to find out how to apply.
