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  1. ahimsa
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    Medscape: 6% of Workers' Comp Cases Are for Long COVID, But Many Can't Collect

    6% of Workers' Comp Cases Are for Long COVID, But Many Can't Collect https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/997416 (no paywall but may require...
    Thread by: ahimsa, Oct 19, 2023, 0 replies, in forum: Long Covid news
  2. CRG
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    Fit For Work – Three Part Series on BBC Radio 4

    Fit For Work – Three Part Series on BBC Radio 4 by Jolyon Jenkins "For 30 years, governments have tried to get disabled people into work by...
    Thread by: CRG, Jun 3, 2023, 30 replies, in forum: Work, Finances and Disability Insurance
  3. CRG
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    Ordeals and the Empathy Gap

    Ordeals and the Empathy Gap Sam Freedman 'Comment is Freed' substack Long read, UK focused but wider relevance: Exerpt An under-discussed...
    Thread by: CRG, Mar 18, 2023, 15 replies, in forum: General disability topics and advocacy
  4. Shadrach Loom
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    UK: Disability benefits (UC, ESA and PIP) - news and updates 2023 (including government plans to scrap the work capability assessment)

    Split from the 2021-2 thread From today’s Politico newsletter: Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary Jonathan Ashworth will deliver a speech to the...
    Thread by: Shadrach Loom, Jan 10, 2023, 515 replies, in forum: Work, Finances and Disability Insurance
  5. Sly Saint
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    Article on people claiming PIP, figures, top 50 conditions

    According to the latest DWP figures, over three million people are claiming Personal Independence Payment (PIP), awarded to people on the basis of...
    Thread by: Sly Saint, Jan 2, 2023, 13 replies, in forum: General disability topics and advocacy
  6. Sly Saint
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    UK - Energy - suppliers, costs, grants, meters etc

    UK - Rise in energy firms remotely switching homes to prepay meters something to be aware of if you are thinking about getting a smart meter A...
    Thread by: Sly Saint, Nov 9, 2022, 18 replies, in forum: Work, Finances and Disability Insurance
  7. Sly Saint
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    Petition: End assessments and consider disability benefit claims on medical advice alone

    The Government should remove the requirement for people claiming disability benefits, such as the Personal Independence Payment (PIP), to have to...
    Thread by: Sly Saint, Oct 12, 2022, 6 replies, in forum: Petitions
  8. Andy
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    UK: ME Local Network

    "The ME Local Network (MELN) has been created and is being steered by local ME support groups across the UK, [...]. The aims of this network...
    Thread by: Andy, Jan 28, 2022, 4 replies, in forum: News from organisations
  9. Haveyoutriedyoga
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    Malingering and illness deception (2003) Halligan, Bass, Oakley

    https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.729.2487&rep=rep1&type=pdf Too big to upload the PDF
    Thread by: Haveyoutriedyoga, Mar 24, 2022, 8 replies, in forum: Other psychosomatic news and research
  10. Andy
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    UK: Work and Pensions Committee inquiry: Health assessments for benefits, 2021

    From a Chronic Illness Inclusion email; Focus groups on disability benefit assessments Chronic Illness Inclusion wants to hear your experiences...
    Thread by: Andy, Nov 19, 2021, 7 replies, in forum: General disability topics and advocacy
  11. Wits_End
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    The new NICE guidelines - do they affect benefits at all?

    Just wondering whether the new NICE ME/CFS guidelines can be beneficial at all in relation to all the various UK benefit applications? Haven't...
    Thread by: Wits_End, Nov 6, 2021, 79 replies, in forum: Work, Finances and Disability Insurance
  12. Andy
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    UK: Guardian article: Capita pays compensation to family of woman who died after benefits cut [not about ME]

    Quote: A government contractor has paid out “substantial” compensation following the death of a young mother who took an overdose after her...
    Thread by: Andy, Nov 3, 2021, 0 replies, in forum: General disability topics and advocacy
  13. Haveyoutriedyoga
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    BMJ podcast: Psychological coercion in UK government workfare programmes (11 minutes), 2015

    [MEDIA] There is a full paper somewhere out there too. Key points Route out to employment is positive mindset Lack of employment is a character...
    Thread by: Haveyoutriedyoga, Oct 16, 2021, 8 replies, in forum: Other health news and research
  14. Sly Saint
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    UK: Survey for C4 Dispatches on Disability Benefits system, deadline end of August 2021

    " Channel 4 Dispatches Survey: Disability Benefits Channel 4 is making a Dispatches programme on how the disability benefits process, as...
    Thread by: Sly Saint, Aug 29, 2021, 3 replies, in forum: Work, Finances and Disability Insurance
  15. Wits_End
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    UK: New health and disability green paper - comments requested

    I found this in my weekly letter from Scope, and thought I needed to share it with others in the UK. Closing date is 11th October 2021. "The...
    Thread by: Wits_End, Aug 25, 2021, 3 replies, in forum: Work, Finances and Disability Insurance
  16. Kitty
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    UK: Disability benefits (ESA and PIP) - news and updates 2021 - 2022

    I found out by accident some time ago that my award has been extended. I needed an up-to-date award letter to renew my Blue Badge, and when they...
    Thread by: Kitty, Jan 22, 2021, 120 replies, in forum: Work, Finances and Disability Insurance
  17. John Mac
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    BBC: Philippa Day: Benefit errors 'predominant factor' in mum's death

    Not ME but nevertheless... Authorities who dealt with a benefits claim from a single mother, who took a fatal overdose after her payments were...
    Thread by: John Mac, Jan 27, 2021, 2 replies, in forum: General disability topics and advocacy
  18. Sarah94
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    UK: Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) medical evidence

    Two questions: (1) Does the DWP accept reports from private consultants as medical evidence? I mean like, will they be snobby about it and not...
    Thread by: Sarah94, Jan 16, 2021, 9 replies, in forum: Work, Finances and Disability Insurance
  19. Andy
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    UK: Online open discussion: "Social Security for All - Agreeing a Way Forward", 7th October 2020

    Everyone knows current welfare benefits are failing, but what would be a better approach? About this Event The Chronic Illness Inclusion Project...
    Thread by: Andy, Sep 24, 2020, 6 replies, in forum: Advocacy Projects and Campaigns
  20. Sarah94
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    (UK) 'No DSS' letting bans 'ruled unlawful' by court, BBC News 14/07/2020

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-53391516
    Thread by: Sarah94, Jul 15, 2020, 9 replies, in forum: General disability topics and advocacy
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