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  1. Sly Saint

    Don't merge the assessments for PIP and ESA - April 2019

    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
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  2. Andy

    Blaming the victim, all over again: Waddell and Aylward’s biopsychosocial (BPS) model of disability, 2016, Shakespeare et al

    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
  3. Andy

    UK: Guess who's working on a health data-slurping digital tool? DWP, 2019, Hill

    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/
  4. Sly Saint

    "This is M.E." booklet by Action for ME - Feedback survey

    This post and the four following ones have been split from this thread: Action for M.E. hosts DWP spotlight training https://www.actionforme.org.uk/uploads/this-is-me-May-2018.pdf " Have you found this resource helpful? Is there a way we could improve it? We would love to hear your feedback...
  5. Sly Saint

    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 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...
  6. Andy

    Action for M.E. hosts DWP spotlight training

    https://www.actionforme.org.uk/news/action-for-me-hosts-dwp-spotlight-training/
  7. John Mac

    Sick and disabled people will be paid £1BILLION of benefits they were denied as bill for DWP blunder explodes

    It affects claimants who were transferred from the old Incapacity Benefit (IB) to the newer Emploment & Support Allowance (ESA). They were wrongly put in the Contributory group rather than the Income-based group and so were underpayed to the tune of £1 billion...
  8. A

    Benefit related deaths

    Shocking but perhaps not unexpected Check out @MrTopple’s Tweet:
  9. Indigophoton

    The Canary: Esther McVey and her department are now totally out of control

    Another article by Steve Topple using ME and PACE as illustrative of current government policy, https://www.thecanary.co/opinion/2018/06/18/esther-mcvey-and-her-department-are-now-totally-out-of-control/
  10. Andy

    The Canary: The DWP is now co-working with the NHS. We should all be very worried. (Talks about IAPT and mentions PACE)

    https://www.thecanary.co/discovery/analysis-discovery/2018/06/14/the-dwp-is-now-co-working-with-the-nhs-we-should-all-be-very-worried/
  11. J

    Correspondence from the DWP for 2005

    I have this week received these from the DWP. I've had a quick look through. The two things that strike me are that they confirm Aylward continued on the TSC when he left the DWP, despite his myriad COIs, and a briefing from AfME which is of some interest. I'll get more when I can. I'm not...
  12. A

    A series of PACE funding FoI requests

    Hello, First post, here goes... I recently placed a number of Freedom of Information requests with the funders of the PACE trial, named on the QMUL website. All the funders replied to my requests. All four named funders are below, with the donations they disclosed to me: The Department...
  13. S

    UK: IAPT-Employment Adviser pilots - some information & docs

    The IAPT-LTC pathway full implementation guidance was recently published (see below) to support national roll-out of 'IAPT-LTC' (which encompasses MUS). As IAPT-employment adviser cross-referral may be of increasing relevance (due to roll out of IAPT-LTC and inclusion of CFS under MUS in the...
  14. J

    Correspondence from the DWP for 2004

    I received these a little while ago. See https://www.s4me.info/threads/correspondence-from-the-dwp-for-2003.2682/ 17 files.
  15. Keela Too

    DWP seeking CCTV footage against disabled

    Saw this on Twitter. Rather shocked. Parking it here. DWP it seems has many ways to get at the disabled. :(
  16. J

    Correspondence from the DWP for 2003

    I have previously shared the correspondence for 2004. Here it is for 2003. I am getting these as and when I can. There is a limit to how much they will release and how often. Even if someone else asks it won't help as it will be seen as the same request. I'll post more when I get them. I have...
  17. Andy

    Disability News Service: "The PIP Files: Nearly one in three Capita assessments were flawed, reports reveal"

    https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/the-pip-files-nearly-one-in-three-capita-assessments-were-flawed-reports-reveal/
  18. Skycloud

    Work and Pensions Select Comittee (UK) findings re: failures of PIP and ESA assessments

    Article in the Guardian Friday Feb 9th 2018 'Substantial minority' of disability claimants failed by system – MPs https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/feb/09/disability-claimants-substantial-minority-failed-by-assessment-system-mps-committee
  19. Sly Saint

    Government and Insurance companies - establishing the BPS model

    The connections between government and the insurance business in their joint project to reduce eligibility for sickness benefits. https://www.lwbooks.co.uk/sites/default/files/s36_04rutherford.pdf " In November 2001 a conference assembled at Woodstock, near Oxford. Its subject was ‘Malingering...
  20. Andy

    Disability News Service: "DWP U-turns on PIP mobility rules that were based on ‘unsupported opinions’"

    https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/dwp-u-turns-on-pip-mobility-rules-that-were-based-on-unsupported-opinions/
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