benefits

Posting as many PwME may have, or will have in the future, experience with Universal Credit. I haven't taken it myself as I'm not on benefits of any sort, so I don't know what it actually asks you. Direct link to survey...

[see thread (with petition) re-amalgamation of testing for both benefits] https://www.s4me.info/threads/dont-merge-the-assessments-for-pip-and-esa-april-2019.9032/ full debate here: https://www.theyworkforyou.com/whall/?id=2019-04-24a.318.4&s=Myalgic+Encephalomyelitis#g324.0

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 you how useless the assessors are. But that's really scary, since then you know how little chance to have to get PIP unless you're ready to go through...

UK Gov petition (ie at 10,000 Govt will respond) currently 3567 signatures (my addition: if you fail on the one test but were previously in receipt of both benefits, you would effectively be left with nothing, pending appeal.) link here: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/244329

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 updates: In spite of the risk to claimants’ health, the DWP are wilfully discouraging doctors from issuing fit notes to employment and support...

Text box tribunals to replace most PIP and ESA appeal hearings Benefits & Work 5 March 2019 Guidance: HMCTS tribunal reform event 26 February 2019 Held at Exeter Combined Court on 26 February 2019, this event discussed the future of the tribunals system. [PDF] Tribunal event slides 26...

https://dpac.uk.net/2019/03/biopsychosocial-lobby-and-right-wing-media-attack-pwme/

Blaming the victim, all over again: Waddell and Aylward’s biopsychosocial (BPS) model of disability, 2016, Shakespeare et al https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0261018316649120

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/02/19/dwp_health_data_tool/ Also a blog on the subject https://universalcreditsuffer.com/2019/02/26/dwp-designing-tool-to-trawl-claimants-medical-records/

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 ask if anyone had any pointers in relation to how to deal with a PIP appeal, since my caree has just had her mandatory reconsideration rejected...

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 iPlayer for up to 24 hours?), you might be interested to see the report on PIP, incorrect PIP decisions and the backlog of appeals resulting from it. More...

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/jan/19/abolish-work-and-pensions-department-demos-thinktank Link to Demos report hosting page, https://demos.co.uk/project/pathways-from-poverty/ and directly to the report...

Twitter post from them Email that can be used: Appgsecretariat@disabilityrightsuk.org

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 31 y/o who will soon be living alone in a flat. I have savings but these fall under the limit over which you can't claim certain benefits. I am mild...

"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 has announced today." Re the 'light touch' reviews, I'll believe it when I see it. (this may explain why the DWP were so interested to know about...

https://www.meassociation.org.uk/2018/12/migrating-from-dla-to-pip-win-at-reconsideration-and-at-appeal-03-december-2018/

Poll can be found on their homepage, https://www.meassociation.org.uk/, middle column, towards the bottom of the page.

Another 'who said' post! I've got Vink's paper (2016). Even the PACE authors themselves say there was no difference between groups in lost employment, before or after the trial, and yet CBT and GET were more expensive anyway, and that may be enough. In general benefits is a terrible, terrible...

" A disabled woman from Thamesmead has started a petition to stop people on benefits having to travel so far for assessments. Claudette Lawrence, 49, is an activist and campaigner who also suffers with myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME), which can cause extreme mental and physical exhaustion. She...

New report: https://www.inclusionlondon.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/ESA-WRAG-Report.pdf Article about it: https://theconversation.com/constant-anxiety-of-benefit-sanctions-is-toxic-for-mental-health-of-disabled-people-105067?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1540217904 I was...