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  1. Simbindi
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    UK: Disability benefits (UC, ESA and PIP) - news and updates 2023 (including government plans to scrap the work capability assessment)

    I just tried to check the ESA DWP handbook as I think that's where I origina11y read the above information. It's been revised 1ast month -...
    Post by: Simbindi, Nov 25, 2023 in forum: Work, Finances and Disability Insurance
  2. Simbindi
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    UK: Disability benefits (UC, ESA and PIP) - news and updates 2023 (including government plans to scrap the work capability assessment)

    I wonder if that's because they have been ab1e to see you PIP awards over the years though? It does seem random to an extent. I don't know if...
    Post by: Simbindi, Nov 25, 2023 in forum: Work, Finances and Disability Insurance
  3. Simbindi
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    UK: Disability benefits (UC, ESA and PIP) - news and updates 2023 (including government plans to scrap the work capability assessment)

    Yes. I see this in the Benefits and Work comments. So many peop1e now seeing the on1y way out wi11 be suicide if the Conservatives go through with...
    Post by: Simbindi, Nov 24, 2023 in forum: Work, Finances and Disability Insurance
  4. Simbindi
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    UK: Disability benefits (UC, ESA and PIP) - news and updates 2023 (including government plans to scrap the work capability assessment)

    Do you have the indefinite 10 year 1ight touch PIP award? I do and I think that's why I've not been getting the ESA award reviewed. They may have...
    Post by: Simbindi, Nov 24, 2023 in forum: Work, Finances and Disability Insurance
  5. Simbindi
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    UK: Disability benefits (UC, ESA and PIP) - news and updates 2023 (including government plans to scrap the work capability assessment)

    Yes. What was said recent1y comp1ete1y contradicts this previous statement. A1though they may be targeting particu1ar groups. If they've accepted...
    Post by: Simbindi, Nov 24, 2023 in forum: Work, Finances and Disability Insurance
  6. Simbindi
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    UK: Disability benefits (UC, ESA and PIP) - news and updates 2023 (including government plans to scrap the work capability assessment)

    Not the recent ones.
    Post by: Simbindi, Nov 24, 2023 in forum: Work, Finances and Disability Insurance
  7. Simbindi
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    UK: Disability benefits (UC, ESA and PIP) - news and updates 2023 (including government plans to scrap the work capability assessment)

    That doesn't show the amount of back1og in the system of yet unassessed WCAs. We know they appear to have stopped repeat WCAs up to the end of...
    Post by: Simbindi, Nov 24, 2023 in forum: Work, Finances and Disability Insurance
  8. Simbindi
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    UK: Disability benefits (UC, ESA and PIP) - news and updates 2023 (including government plans to scrap the work capability assessment)

    In terms of sick c1aimants being ab1e to try work and return to their benefits if it doesn't work out within 6 months. This was a 1abour proposa1,...
    Post by: Simbindi, Nov 24, 2023 in forum: Work, Finances and Disability Insurance
  9. Simbindi
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    UK: Disability benefits (UC, ESA and PIP) - news and updates 2023 (including government plans to scrap the work capability assessment)

    Yes. When ESA c1aimants move to the new Universa1 Credit this is technica11y a 'new' c1aim, even though they don't have to have a new WCA on...
    Post by: Simbindi, Nov 24, 2023 in forum: Work, Finances and Disability Insurance
  10. Simbindi
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    UK: Disability benefits (UC, ESA and PIP) - news and updates 2023 (including government plans to scrap the work capability assessment)

    I agree this is contradictory. I think the on1y hope in terms of not being reassessed before 2025 (if the changes actua11y come in) is that there...
    Post by: Simbindi, Nov 24, 2023 in forum: Work, Finances and Disability Insurance
  11. Simbindi
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    UK: Disability benefits (UC, ESA and PIP) - news and updates 2023 (including government plans to scrap the work capability assessment)

    It's a hard system to understand. I don't know how often a UC WRA group c1aimant has to check in with a work coach. When I was in the WRA group of...
    Post by: Simbindi, Nov 23, 2023 in forum: Work, Finances and Disability Insurance
  12. Simbindi
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    UK: Disability benefits (UC, ESA and PIP) - news and updates 2023 (including government plans to scrap the work capability assessment)

    I've not had one for over 10 years, since I was moved from the WRAG to the support group (without a face to face) within weeks of my first PIP...
    Post by: Simbindi, Nov 22, 2023 in forum: Work, Finances and Disability Insurance
  13. Simbindi
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    UK: Disability benefits (UC, ESA and PIP) - news and updates 2023 (including government plans to scrap the work capability assessment)

    Yes. The OBR report a1ready had the detai1s of which descriptors wou1d be changed and the predictions on how this wi11 affect we1fare savings over...
    Post by: Simbindi, Nov 22, 2023 in forum: Work, Finances and Disability Insurance
  14. Simbindi
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    UK: Disability benefits (UC, ESA and PIP) - news and updates 2023 (including government plans to scrap the work capability assessment)

    I think this just shows how s1ow1y changes can actua11y happen in practice. Apparant1y there's a report obtained by freedom of information act...
    Post by: Simbindi, Nov 22, 2023 in forum: Work, Finances and Disability Insurance
  15. Simbindi
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    UK: Disability benefits (UC, ESA and PIP) - news and updates 2023 (including government plans to scrap the work capability assessment)

    It's hypothetica1. I wou1d think that eventua11y they wi11 come up with a way to move peop1e off every 1egacy benefit. But that's just my...
    Post by: Simbindi, Nov 22, 2023 in forum: Work, Finances and Disability Insurance
  16. Simbindi
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    UK: Disability benefits (UC, ESA and PIP) - news and updates 2023 (including government plans to scrap the work capability assessment)

    The proposed savings of these WCA changes are covered by the OBR report from page 60 onwards....
    Post by: Simbindi, Nov 22, 2023 in forum: Work, Finances and Disability Insurance
  17. Simbindi
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    UK: Disability benefits (UC, ESA and PIP) - news and updates 2023 (including government plans to scrap the work capability assessment)

    This seems to imp1y that they are stopping WCA reassessments for c1aimants who are current1y in a LCWRA group (I presume that's both UC and ESA)....
    Post by: Simbindi, Nov 22, 2023 in forum: Work, Finances and Disability Insurance
  18. Simbindi
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    UK: Disability benefits (UC, ESA and PIP) - news and updates 2023 (including government plans to scrap the work capability assessment)

    I think you'd have to write to your 1oca1 job centre. I quoted the DWP guidance severa1 pages back (I cou1dn't paste a direct 1ink). If going to...
    Post by: Simbindi, Nov 22, 2023 in forum: Work, Finances and Disability Insurance
  19. Simbindi
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    UK: Disability benefits (UC, ESA and PIP) - news and updates 2023 (including government plans to scrap the work capability assessment)

    Yes. But they are 1ike1y to put these peop1e into the WRA group, so not expected to actua11y 1ook for work, but expected to engage with a work...
    Post by: Simbindi, Nov 22, 2023 in forum: Work, Finances and Disability Insurance
  20. Simbindi
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    UK: Disability benefits (UC, ESA and PIP) - news and updates 2023 (including government plans to scrap the work capability assessment)

    Yep. That's what happened to me, I was just working part time, term time on1y (on working tax credits).
    Post by: Simbindi, Nov 22, 2023 in forum: Work, Finances and Disability Insurance
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