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  1. Kitty
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    UK: Free PIP webinar, 11-05-2020

    Benefits & Work is putting on a free 40-minute webinar or anyone applying for Personal Independence Payments during the lockdown: "FREE PIP...
    Thread by: Kitty, May 6, 2020, 1 replies, in forum: Work, Finances and Disability Insurance
  2. Sly Saint
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    UK: Article the Guardian:Benefits assessment suspension does not go far enough, says charity

    The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) on Monday put on hold in-person assessments for disability benefit claimants as a precautionary measure...
    Thread by: Sly Saint, Mar 17, 2020, 13 replies, in forum: Epidemics (including Covid-19)
  3. Wits_End
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    UK petition - change the DWP benefits assessments system

    Petition to stop contracting out DWP health-related benefits assessments and make the system fairer:...
    Thread by: Wits_End, Nov 5, 2019, 2 replies, in forum: Petitions
  4. Wits_End
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    UK: Petition to make recording PIP assessments mandatory

    I've just found this petition which someone has set up to make the recording of PIP assessments mandatory:...
    Thread by: Wits_End, Sep 9, 2019, 5 replies, in forum: Work, Finances and Disability Insurance
  5. InitialConditions
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    UK benefits advice: Universal Credit and limited capability for work

    Hi all, I am looking for advice RE: Universal Credit and limited capability for work. A few months ago I started claiming UC. I work freelance...
    Thread by: InitialConditions, Jul 14, 2019, 9 replies, in forum: Work, Finances and Disability Insurance
  6. Sly Saint
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    UK Parliament debate - 10 Years of the Work Capability Assesment 24 April 2019

    Laura Pidcock Shadow Minister (Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy) (Labour) 2:30 pm, 24th April 2019 I beg to move, That this House has...
    Thread by: Sly Saint, Apr 28, 2019, 15 replies, in forum: Work, Finances and Disability Insurance
  7. ladycatlover
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    BBC1 Doctors 17 April 2019 Storyline about PIP (UK benefit)

    Warning - this may be a programme that is upsetting for PIP claimants, or those awaiting a PIP assessment. On the other hand, it at least shows...
    Thread by: ladycatlover, Apr 17, 2019, 1 replies, in forum: Work, Finances and Disability Insurance
  8. Simbindi
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    UK: 'Claimants health put at risk by fit note scandal' B & W News

    I wouldn't usually post the news from the Benefits and Work website, but this item will be relevant to anyone claiming ESA or UC. From 26th March...
    Thread by: Simbindi, Mar 27, 2019, 0 replies, in forum: Work, Finances and Disability Insurance
  9. Sarah
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    UK: Text box tribunals to replace most PIP and ESA appeal hearings - Benefits & Work, 5 March 2019

    Text box tribunals to replace most PIP and ESA appeal hearings Benefits & Work 5 March 2019 Most PIP and ESA claimants who appeal a decision will...
    Thread by: Sarah, Mar 25, 2019, 3 replies, in forum: Work, Finances and Disability Insurance
  10. Wits_End
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    UK PIP appeals - advice, recommendations?

    Less than 24 hours of being registered as a member, and I've already been awarded a Trophy! Anyway, that wasn't why I signed up: I joined here to...
    Thread by: Wits_End, Feb 23, 2019, 37 replies, in forum: Work, Finances and Disability Insurance
  11. Wits_End
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    BBC News covers PIP and appeals

    If you didn't catch the 10 O'clock News tonight (and possibly the 6 pm one too) and can catch up with it (I think news is only available on...
    Thread by: Wits_End, Feb 21, 2019, 1 replies, in forum: Work, Finances and Disability Insurance
  12. Andy
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    The Guardian: Unfit DWP should be axed, says thinktank

    Ministers should consider abolishing the Department for Work and Pensions after its failure to help ill and disabled people out of poverty, a...
    Thread by: Andy, Jan 19, 2019, 7 replies, in forum: Health News and Research unrelated to ME/CFS
  13. Andy
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    UK: The APPG for Disability are looking for stories of issues with PIP

    Twitter post from them [MEDIA] Email that can be used: Appgsecretariat@disabilityrightsuk.org
    Thread by: Andy, Jan 19, 2019, 0 replies, in forum: Work, Finances and Disability Insurance
  14. InitialConditions
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    Advice RE claiming UK benefits, paying NI contributions

    Hi all, Looking for some advice given it's possible I may have to go down the route of claiming benefits. First a little about me: I'm a single...
    Thread by: InitialConditions, Jan 15, 2019, 25 replies, in forum: Work, Finances and Disability Insurance
  15. Sly Saint
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    UK Dec 2018 - £40 million personalised support package for long-term unemployed disabled people launched

    "Disabled people will be able to work with a dedicated key worker to get and stay in employment, the new Work and Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd...
    Thread by: Sly Saint, Jan 8, 2019, 9 replies, in forum: Work, Finances and Disability Insurance
  16. Andy
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    ME Association: Migrating from DLA to PIP – Perseverance and support result in win at reconsideration and at appeal for M.E.

    We last heard from a mother who recounted her daughter’s experience of the far from satisfactory Personal Independence Payment application and...
    Thread by: Andy, Dec 3, 2018, 2 replies, in forum: Work, Finances and Disability Insurance
  17. Sly Saint
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    Woman's fight to stop disabled people having to travel for benefit assessments - UK petition

    " A disabled woman from Thamesmead has started a petition to stop people on benefits having to travel so far for assessments. Claudette Lawrence,...
    Thread by: Sly Saint, Nov 1, 2018, 10 replies, in forum: Petitions
  18. Andy
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    Blog: Changing the system so that more chronically ill people can work

    In May, I started my first ever job which I found through a wonderful charity called Astriid. My job is five hours a week, working from home, with...
    Thread by: Andy, Oct 18, 2018, 1 replies, in forum: Work, Finances and Disability Insurance
  19. Andy
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    Charities are missing the point – disability benefit assessments were designed to fail

    Another significant report, this time by Z2K, has just been published by yet another well-meaning charity, demonstrating once again the numbers of...
    Thread by: Andy, Jul 7, 2018, 6 replies, in forum: Work, Finances and Disability Insurance
  20. Andy
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    Disability New Service: Isle of Man set to scrap its ‘fitness for work’ test

    Ministers on the Isle of Man are to scrap their version of the UK government’s much-criticised “fitness for work” test, prompting calls by...
    Thread by: Andy, Apr 13, 2018, 5 replies, in forum: Work, Finances and Disability Insurance
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