I thought you were referring to cheap coffins at first, rather than boarding up hospitals...
Also, the NHS system is so disjointed that a hospital consultant can't even access blood test results that were done previously by the GP. Surely...
My sister used to work as a nurse at a GP surgery until about 5-6 years ago. She said they are already overwhelmed doing stuff for hospitals that...
It's a bit off topic, as this is about social care, but it seems there is now a channel to complain about councils not providing correct social...
They have a legal duty to offer you a formal assessment of needs. But councils do informally try to avoid this duty by adding lots of barriers...
I think Kitty is probably right on existing CB ESA claimants, it's all about them saving money. They don't seem to even have thought through how...
You should be able to use any social care reports/assessment outcomes as evidence when your PIP is next reviewed. The DWP specify they will...
A long read (can be listened to) - https://www.thecanary.co/long-read/2025/04/01/dwp-cuts-me-cfs/
So they are being trained to ignore the 'repeatedly and reliably' criteria, even though that is set in legislation. I'd advise claimants to...
Before the local councils combined to become a unitary authority here, ESA, Income Support and UC all paid a 20% contribution after it was...
In Somerset they treat the health element of Universal Credit as income, whereas they exempt someone on income related ESA fully from Council Tax....
Yes. I believe technically anyone with a formal NHS autism diagnosis should be scoring 8 on the communication and social interaction descriptors,...
I think the 'reliable and repeatable' criteria were added to the PIP legislation a couple of years after it was originally passed. That's why the...
I was going to have a care assessment but my council made it so hard to access (as I also have autism and communication difficulties) that I gave...
It's individual, I've just been talking in generalities but yes, in my own case if I didn't have a long term award of PIP (and at the moment I'm...
I never claimed DLA, but I seem to recall (from my sister's case) that that was the criteria that got a claimant the lowest level of the care...
I'd be concerned about giving them any ideas on how to make PIP harder to get in the future! I think Labour has mooted about using different...
I think a possible way forward would be for the government to legislate to allow pensioners who are in receipt of only the mobility element of PIP...
Yes, I'd be in that situation but for the fact that I claimed over 16 years of Child Benefit in my name when married (my ex was on a high income...
I said 'more recent', they may have been here for 10 or more years, but less than the 35 years required to get the full new state pension, whilst...
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