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...
Split from the 2021-2 thread From today’s Politico newsletter: Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary Jonathan Ashworth will deliver a speech to the...
According to the latest DWP figures, over three million people are claiming Personal Independence Payment (PIP), awarded to people on the basis of...
"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...
From a Chronic Illness Inclusion email; Focus groups on disability benefit assessments Chronic Illness Inclusion wants to hear your experiences...
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...
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...
The below is from Sheffield ME & Fibromyalgia Group. Would be grateful if people could distribute around any Sheffield related networks and/or...
Benefits & Work is putting on a free 40-minute webinar or anyone applying for Personal Independence Payments during the lockdown: "FREE PIP...
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...
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) on Monday put on hold in-person assessments for disability benefit claimants as a precautionary measure...
From Disability News Service: "Thousands of disabled people could have had their benefit claims stopped unlawfully, campaigners believe, after a...
Petition to stop contracting out DWP health-related benefits assessments and make the system fairer:...
Campaigners have forced a government U-turn after demonstrating that chronically ill claimants suffering severe pain were wrongly denied...
I've just found this petition which someone has set up to make the recording of PIP assessments mandatory:...
A “fiercely independent” woman who has spent months trapped inside her own home after her medical condition deteriorated has said that it took a...
https://www.meassociation.org.uk/2019/06/meeting-with-minister-raised-important-concerns-about-welfare-benefits-for-people-with-me-26-june-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...
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...
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