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    UK: Disability benefits (UC, ESA and PIP) - news and updates 2023 (including government plans to scrap the work capability assessment)

    "Amend the regulations that determine whether mental health issues are assessed as putting claimants at ‘Substantial Risk’ if they are required to...
    Post by: think_that_it_might, Nov 22, 2023 in forum: Work, Finances and Disability Insurance
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    UK: Disability benefits (UC, ESA and PIP) - news and updates 2023 (including government plans to scrap the work capability assessment)

    lucky really that we can trust our charities to respond to these consultations so forcefully and put our case in such a way that makes it clear...
    Post by: think_that_it_might, Nov 22, 2023 in forum: Work, Finances and Disability Insurance
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    UK: Disability benefits (UC, ESA and PIP) - news and updates 2023 (including government plans to scrap the work capability assessment)

    elsewhere, mobility and getting about downgraded, continence and social engagement stay the same. it's about half of what they were talking about....
    Post by: think_that_it_might, Nov 22, 2023 in forum: Work, Finances and Disability Insurance
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    UK: Disability benefits (UC, ESA and PIP) - news and updates 2023 (including government plans to scrap the work capability assessment)

    "Amending the LCWRA Substantial Risk regulations to realign Substantial Risk with its original intention of only applying in exceptional...
    Post by: think_that_it_might, Nov 22, 2023 in forum: Work, Finances and Disability Insurance
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    UK: Disability benefits (UC, ESA and PIP) - news and updates 2023 (including government plans to scrap the work capability assessment)

    yeah, i saw that. possibly the one proof that some of the worst things they've ever done can actually be reversed at some pt, it's been a brutal...
    Post by: think_that_it_might, Nov 22, 2023 in forum: Work, Finances and Disability Insurance
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    UK: Disability benefits (UC, ESA and PIP) - news and updates 2023 (including government plans to scrap the work capability assessment)

    i was just thinking that. he's making a lot of noise around this now but i'm sure when they announced the white paper on getting rid of the WCA...
    Post by: think_that_it_might, Nov 22, 2023 in forum: Work, Finances and Disability Insurance
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    UK: Disability benefits (UC, ESA and PIP) - news and updates 2023 (including government plans to scrap the work capability assessment)

    tbh i feel like i've had it anyway, i was given either 50/50 and zero chance of winning my appeal for LCWRA last time by two advisors (tho i did)...
    Post by: think_that_it_might, Nov 22, 2023 in forum: Work, Finances and Disability Insurance
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    UK: Disability benefits (UC, ESA and PIP) - news and updates 2023 (including government plans to scrap the work capability assessment)

    this really has al the hallmarks of the original 2008 WCA reforms, which ended up being softened in practice because they were such a catastrophe...
    Post by: think_that_it_might, Nov 22, 2023 in forum: Work, Finances and Disability Insurance
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    UK: Disability benefits (UC, ESA and PIP) - news and updates 2023 (including government plans to scrap the work capability assessment)

    beyond which, they don't protect you from much these days anyway, esp if yr making an appeal. you wonder how the severely ill are supposed to...
    Post by: think_that_it_might, Nov 22, 2023 in forum: Work, Finances and Disability Insurance
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    UK: Disability benefits (UC, ESA and PIP) - news and updates 2023 (including government plans to scrap the work capability assessment)

    he's announced the changes but there's zero detail afaict (tbf i'm not watching the damn thing). i guess we'll have to wait for the documents
    Post by: think_that_it_might, Nov 22, 2023 in forum: Work, Finances and Disability Insurance
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    UK: Disability benefits (UC, ESA and PIP) - news and updates 2023 (including government plans to scrap the work capability assessment)

    won't be sat here for long but i'll say anything relevant while i can pay attention. 1. some good news (no really): benefits to be uprated at...
    Post by: think_that_it_might, Nov 22, 2023 in forum: Work, Finances and Disability Insurance
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    UK: Disability benefits (UC, ESA and PIP) - news and updates 2023 (including government plans to scrap the work capability assessment)

    Agree totally, i've written all the messaging off as playing to the crowd. otoh if this is all irrelevant, it does at least mean what they'll...
    Post by: think_that_it_might, Nov 22, 2023 in forum: Work, Finances and Disability Insurance
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    UK: Disability benefits (UC, ESA and PIP) - news and updates 2023 (including government plans to scrap the work capability assessment)

    My feeling at the time was that it was testing the water but they wouldn't do the hardest measures, there was a certain diffidence to the way they...
    Post by: think_that_it_might, Nov 21, 2023 in forum: Work, Finances and Disability Insurance
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    UK: Disability benefits (UC, ESA and PIP) - news and updates 2023 (including government plans to scrap the work capability assessment)

    Do we know how hard they're going on this yet? i've been looking at coverage today and i can't figure out if "tightening" the criteria for...
    Post by: think_that_it_might, Nov 21, 2023 in forum: Work, Finances and Disability Insurance
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    UK: Disability benefits (UC, ESA and PIP) - news and updates 2023 (including government plans to scrap the work capability assessment)

    some of it is definitely factually wrong eg LCW don't get extra money to lose (edit; ive misread this, it doesn't say that but the two groups...
    Post by: think_that_it_might, Nov 20, 2023 in forum: Work, Finances and Disability Insurance
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    UK: Disability benefits (UC, ESA and PIP) - news and updates 2023 (including government plans to scrap the work capability assessment)

    I've no doubt that it is the plan. I am also well aware of how the job centre works. How far these things end up happening is not yet set in stone...
    Post by: think_that_it_might, Oct 13, 2023 in forum: Work, Finances and Disability Insurance
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    UK: Disability benefits (UC, ESA and PIP) - news and updates 2023 (including government plans to scrap the work capability assessment)

    I've read the consultation. This is a suggestion, they can either remove them altogether or make it so that none of those areas could score 15...
    Post by: think_that_it_might, Oct 13, 2023 in forum: Work, Finances and Disability Insurance
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    UK: Disability benefits (UC, ESA and PIP) - news and updates 2023 (including government plans to scrap the work capability assessment)

    Some positive news here, given i strongly suspect labour will be the ones doing all this stuff...
    Post by: think_that_it_might, Oct 13, 2023 in forum: Work, Finances and Disability Insurance
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    UK: Disability benefits (UC, ESA and PIP) - news and updates 2023 (including government plans to scrap the work capability assessment)

    looking at the twitter feed: no
    Post by: think_that_it_might, Sep 9, 2023 in forum: Work, Finances and Disability Insurance
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    UK: Disability benefits (UC, ESA and PIP) - news and updates 2023 (including government plans to scrap the work capability assessment)

    In my recent experience this is even more clear. Guidance to job centres is explicit that claimants should be moved twds ever more difficult...
    Post by: think_that_it_might, Sep 6, 2023 in forum: Work, Finances and Disability Insurance
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