Not ME but nevertheless... Authorities who dealt with a benefits claim from a single mother, who took a fatal overdose after her payments were...
Two questions: (1) Does the DWP accept reports from private consultants as medical evidence? I mean like, will they be snobby about it and not...
Everyone knows current welfare benefits are failing, but what would be a better approach? About this Event The Chronic Illness Inclusion Project...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-53391516
Stuart, R., Campbell, S., Osumili, B., Robinson, E. J., Frost-Gaskin, M., Pacitti, R., ... Henderson, C. (2020). Do welfare benefit reassessments...
The equality watchdog failed to consult its own committee of disabled advisers before deciding not to investigate deaths of benefit claimants that...
Benefits & Work is putting on a free 40-minute webinar or anyone applying for Personal Independence Payments during the lockdown: "FREE PIP...
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) on Monday put on hold in-person assessments for disability benefit claimants as a precautionary measure...
The application for the Disability Tax Credit does not 'fit' our reality. I was receiving the DTC for over 25 years, but it appears that the...
Emily Beardall, 44, had just qualified with a degree in pharmacy when she was diagnosed with myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME). “I couldn’t work. It...
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:...
Capita seeks to reverse 'reputational damage' after death of claimant By Michael Buchanan Social affairs correspondent, BBC News...
Hi all, I am looking for advice RE: Universal Credit and limited capability for work. A few months ago I started claiming UC. I work freelance...
https://www.meassociation.org.uk/2019/06/meeting-with-minister-raised-important-concerns-about-welfare-benefits-for-people-with-me-26-june-2019/...
July 2019 Solve ME Webinar: Disability Insurance for ME/CFS Disability Insurance Attorney Andrew Kantor from Kantor & Kantor, LLP joins us to...
I just came across this, from 2015: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jul/29/coercing-people-mental-health-problems-work-treatment...
In a couple of weeks’ time I’ll be meeting with the Minister for Disabled People, Health and Work to raise the recurring issue of access to...
Posting as many PwME may have, or will have in the future, experience with Universal Credit. I haven't taken it myself as I'm not on benefits of...
Separate names with a comma.
