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"Amend the regulations that determine whether mental health issues are assessed as putting claimants at ‘Substantial Risk’ if they are required to undertake any level of work preparation - these amendments will realign the regulations with the original intention of applying only in exceptional...

lucky really that we can trust our charities to respond to these consultations so forcefully and put our case in such a way that makes it clear how much we'd struggle to work, oh hang on -

elsewhere, mobility and getting about downgraded, continence and social engagement stay the same. it's about half of what they were talking about. the above is the thing that really sticks out tho

"Amending the LCWRA Substantial Risk regulations to realign Substantial Risk with its original intention of only applying in exceptional circumstances. We will specify the circumstances, and physical and mental health conditions, for which LCWRA Substantial Risk should apply. This will include...

yeah, i saw that. possibly the one proof that some of the worst things they've ever done can actually be reversed at some pt, it's been a brutal policy for years.

i was just thinking that. he's making a lot of noise around this now but i'm sure when they announced the white paper on getting rid of the WCA we'd seen something by this time in the afternoon. i suspect it might be a while before we see anything, which i also think goes back to the idea we...

tbh i feel like i've had it anyway, i was given either 50/50 and zero chance of winning my appeal for LCWRA last time by two advisors (tho i did) and if they tighten it further i can see that being quoted as zero and, erm, zero next time. i'll be ok while my mum is still alive but in the long...

this really has al the hallmarks of the original 2008 WCA reforms, which ended up being softened in practice because they were such a catastrophe for two or three years. i can't imagine this stuff can hold but i can imagine the damage done in the meantime

beyond which, they don't protect you from much these days anyway, esp if yr making an appeal. you wonder how the severely ill are supposed to navigate this system

he's announced the changes but there's zero detail afaict (tbf i'm not watching the damn thing). i guess we'll have to wait for the documents

won't be sat here for long but i'll say anything relevant while i can pay attention. 1. some good news (no really): benefits to be uprated at 6.7%, which is as it should be. there was speculation that some trickery would be used to hold the uprate figure down, no doubt to pay for the much...

Agree totally, i've written all the messaging off as playing to the crowd. otoh if this is all irrelevant, it does at least mean what they'll actually do is still up in the air for a couple of hours

My feeling at the time was that it was testing the water but they wouldn't do the hardest measures, there was a certain diffidence to the way they talked about the most extreme stuff. that said, the celebratory atmosphere being cultivated this week feels like they could do anything

Do we know how hard they're going on this yet? i've been looking at coverage today and i can't figure out if "tightening" the criteria for substantial risk means the smaller changes regarding doing WRA from home or the bit where you can't get into the support group anymore. i agree that i doubt...

some of it is definitely factually wrong eg LCW don't get extra money to lose (edit; ive misread this, it doesn't say that but the two groups thing is confusing). my memory from the white paper or whatever i read a few months back is that everyone who got PIP would get the extra but they'd...

I've no doubt that it is the plan. I am also well aware of how the job centre works. How far these things end up happening is not yet set in stone tho. They might do the whole thing, they might do half the thing. The reason i responded to the consultation was on the basis that, if enough noise...

I've read the consultation. This is a suggestion, they can either remove them altogether or make it so that none of those areas could score 15 points. atm we don't know quite how far they'll go with it but the fact that these things are there at all doesn't look good.

Some positive news here, given i strongly suspect labour will be the ones doing all this stuff https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/labour-pledges-to-scrap-tory-plans-to-tighten-fitness-for-work-test/ Do we trust labour? not really, but it would be very easy for her just to do what shadow...

looking at the twitter feed: no

In my recent experience this is even more clear. Guidance to job centres is explicit that claimants should be moved twds ever more difficult activity. It was made clear to me by benefits advisors that soon enough this would mean the kind of frequent and lengthy out of house appointments that i'm...