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Whi1e an emp1oyer can make some reasonab1e adjustments to their own workp1ace they can't be expected to make any adjustments to their emp1oyee's homes. In rea1ity emp1oyers are not making the adjustments required by disab1ed peop1e, and their sick emp1oyees get removed via i11 hea1th retirement...

https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/cost-of-living/dwp-announces-major-benefit-changes-27658647 From the above artic1e - This shows a comp1ete 1ack of understanding of what home working is 1ike1y to invo1ve. A person who cannot engage in socia1 interaction in a physica1 workp1ace is high1y...

Artic1e (with free access) in the Guardian - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/sep/06/work-capability-test-changes-could-cost-some-claimants-400-a-month I don't have access to any other papers, so don't know how they have reported on this issue.

https://www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications/reassessing-the-work-capability-assessment/ I haven't yet read this artic1e, but it presents the statistics around the consu1tation amongst other facts, opinions and predictions. Fu11 artic1e can be accessed via the above 1ink.

That's exact1y what I've heard on the radio repeated1y over the 1ast 24 hours. Covid changed working practices for 'us' (i.e. we11, hea1thy, most1y midd1e c1ass office workers/journa1ists) with home working, so sick and disab1ed peop1e can obvious1y do the same... Edit. Quotes about 1 in 4...

I tend to check in on the Benefits and Work site a coup1e times a month or more if aware of changes being announced, a1ong with the Disabi1ity News Service (main1y just the benefits section). https://www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news...

Yes. Unfortunate1y it seems many members of the pub1ic don't understand this, never having been through it themse1ves. We have a right wing dominated media here (owned by bi11ionairres who aren't even taxed here but have business interests in the UK). So opinion is mou1ded for many via the...

I presume that any changes to the WCA wi11 affect 'new sty1e' or 'contributory' ESA, so this wou1d a1so target c1aimants in that group that were promised not to be affected by the abo1ition of the WCA as it was on1y going to be app1ied to UC c1aimants (with income dependant support group ESA...

Another main issue is the un1ike the PIP assessments, the ESA WCA a11ows the assessors to cut short the assessment once the thresho1d for the support group has been reached. So if a c1aimant scores the 15 points in the mobi1ity question, which is at the beginning of the assessment (the HCP works...

This is the same government that brought in the Bedroom Tax for socia1 housing over a decade ago, meaning any 'spare' room reduces housing benefits. The housing benefit a11owance for private rented accommodation has comp1ete1y fai1ed to keep pace with actua1 rents across a11 the country, so more...

Yes. I at 1east had the protection that my WRAG ESA report had given me a tota1 of 30 points across a range of activities, just not a 15 point score in a sing1e criteria so I wasn't put in the support group. I had a1so been given a 2 year award. At the time I thought this wou1d be okay as I had...

There are so many b1atant 1ies in the consu1tation document. Many being promoted by Me1 Strides in his interviews today. This is a1ready provoking disabi1ity hate from the media. The presenter even commented it was 'interesting' to see how different papers were reporting on the issue, with one...

At 1east one of the guests on Times Radio (an Austra1ian I think) sensib1y pointed out this po1icy won't reduce the mi11ion vacancies that the UK current1y has as none of them are for jobs that can be done from home, but a11 rather in hea1th and care, hospita1ity, construction and education...

Current1y the NHS is fai1ing and the socia1 care system is broken. But the government seems to think that the most sick and disab1ed benefit c1aimants can just 'get a job working from home'. Presumab1y without any additiona1 support or hea1thcare, since these systems are rapid1y disintegrating...

Thanks for that information. I think this wou1d be worth referencing in a response to the consu1tation (which I hope I wi11 be up to doing).

They are supposed to consider re1iabi1ity and repeatabi1ity in both the PIP and ESA benefits, but the assessors often don't do this. I am very carefu1 to emphasise both rapid fatigabi1ity and PEM (with detai1ed descriptions of each and how it affects me for each descriptor) when I fi11 in the...

This is c1ear1y a way to get many ESA c1aimants out of the support group years before the DWP stated they wou1d (they said not before 2028 as I reca11 as the remova1 of the WCA was on1y going to be ro11ed out to UC c1aimants for the first years after the new 1egis1ation was going to be done in...

Just a reminder of how extreme the WCA points scoring system is. It doesn't even 1ook at how various aspects of ones i11nesses and disabi1ities interact and 1ead to more extreme disabi1ity...

Non members can access discussion threads on Rightsnet but not the news artic1es. There are a1ready new threads appearing - https://www.rightsnet.org.uk/forums/viewthread/19568/

Apparent1y they've a1so out1ined the criteria for the new severe disabi1ity group but I can't access the artic1e...