benefitsandwork.co.uk has just published a new guide for those claiming PIP for ME/CFS. The full guide is only available to paid members, but the...
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...
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...
Blog posts on the blog called Healthcare Hubris Spotlight on ME/CFS: Who is lobbying whom? by Jo Hunt part 1 part 2 Covers some of the...
https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.729.2487&rep=rep1&type=pdf Too big to upload the PDF
From a Chronic Illness Inclusion email; Focus groups on disability benefit assessments Chronic Illness Inclusion wants to hear your experiences...
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...
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...
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...
The equality watchdog failed to consult its own committee of disabled advisers before deciding not to investigate deaths of benefit claimants that...
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) on Monday put on hold in-person assessments for disability benefit claimants as a precautionary measure...
Ministers should consider abolishing the Department for Work and Pensions after its failure to help ill and disabled people out of poverty, a...
Just seen this on facebook, and to me it looks appalling. Is this even legal? In preparation for their JCP appointment someone with ME has to...
I am starting this thread to bring together all the links to guidance and advice for claiming the main UK disability benefits of Employment...
[MEDIA] Meeting being held today 4 September according to this tweet by ME Association.
https://www.meassociation.org.uk/2019/06/meeting-with-minister-raised-important-concerns-about-welfare-benefits-for-people-with-me-26-june-2019/...
Rogue company Unum’s profiteering hand in the government’s work, health and disability green paper...
Laura Pidcock Shadow Minister (Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy) (Labour) 2:30 pm, 24th April 2019 I beg to move, That this House has...
UK Gov petition (ie at 10,000 Govt will respond) In a speech on 5/3/19, Work & Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd announced plans to merge assessments...
Blaming the victim, all over again: Waddell and Aylward’s biopsychosocial (BPS) model of disability, 2016, Shakespeare et al Abstract The...
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