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PIP helper: New tool launched for DWP claimants of millions in personal independence payment going unpaid | The Independent

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 page below gives a flavour of what is in the guide. The linked page also includes some interesting stats on PIP claims by those with a primary...

This thread has been split from the 2023 thread For the green paper and PIP consultation go to #post 44 Not sure if there is anything new in this news item but it may clarify some points...

Split from the 2021-2 thread From today’s Politico newsletter: Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary Jonathan Ashworth will deliver a speech to the Center for Social Justice think tank this morning, pledging reforms to out-of-work support. The Labour plans involve allowing people on sickness...

https://www.lancs.live/news/cost-of-living/50-pip-conditions-could-see-25873700

"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 include strengthening mutual help between local support groups, sharing information and best practice, ensuring the grassroots voice is heard and feeding...

From a Chronic Illness Inclusion email; Focus groups on disability benefit assessments Chronic Illness Inclusion wants to hear your experiences of both the Work Capability Assessment (WCA) AND Personal Independence Payments (PIP) assessments. We want your ideas for how to make the ‘claim...

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 really thought this through yet.

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 health and disability green paper explores how the welfare system can better meet the needs of disabled people and people with health conditions now and...

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 sent it I noticed that the end date was nine months later than it had been. Today I actually got a notification of it. It's happened because they...

The below is from Sheffield ME & Fibromyalgia Group. Would be grateful if people could distribute around any Sheffield related networks and/or share with people who may be interested in applying. I'll attach as a word doc too in case you want to download and send that way. Thanks! Job Vacancies...

Benefits & Work is putting on a free 40-minute webinar or anyone applying for Personal Independence Payments during the lockdown: "FREE PIP CHANGES WEBINARS It is extremely difficult to work out what is happening to your benefits during the current emergency. Changes to PIP claims, assessments...

Has anyone submitted a diary along with their ESA/UC or PIP form? I am struggling with what to write and include. I've seen some PIP diaries explicitly based around the descriptors, which is of course a sound idea, but I've decided not to go down that route, and instead just give an overall...

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/mar/16/benefits-assessment-suspension-does-not-go-far-enough-says-charity hopefully they will be putting their 'health professionals' to better use. better still , scrap the assessments;can't believe that they still seriously believe they will be getting...

From Disability News Service: "Thousands of disabled people could have had their benefit claims stopped unlawfully, campaigners believe, after a judge found that letters sent out by government contractors were failing to stress the serious consequences of failing to attend a face-to-face...

Petition to stop contracting out DWP health-related benefits assessments and make the system fairer: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/274312/signatures/new UK citizens only.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/oct/09/bristol-charity-campaign-leads-to-benefits-claims-change

I've just found this petition which someone has set up to make the recording of PIP assessments mandatory: https://www.change.org/p/parliament-mandatory-recording-of-all-pip-assessments In our case, it would certainly back up the fact that we told the assessor that caree made a half-mile trip...

article here https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/woman-trapped-inside-home-describes-3286934 (not sure why she is having to crowd fund for this(?) there is the Motability scheme) https://www.motability.co.uk/about-the-scheme/personal-independence-payment/

https://www.meassociation.org.uk/2019/06/meeting-with-minister-raised-important-concerns-about-welfare-benefits-for-people-with-me-26-june-2019/ Hopefully DWP will take on board the issues raised