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...
UK Gov petition (ie at 10,000 Govt will respond) In a speech on 5/3/19, Work & Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd announced plans to merge assessments...
I wouldn't usually post the news from the Benefits and Work website, but this item will be relevant to anyone claiming ESA or UC. From 26th March...
Text box tribunals to replace most PIP and ESA appeal hearings Benefits & Work 5 March 2019 Most PIP and ESA claimants who appeal a decision will...
ME activist Catherine Hale explains: “It’s the usual pattern: a spurious story about CFS researchers getting online harassment and having to quit...
Blaming the victim, all over again: Waddell and Aylward’s biopsychosocial (BPS) model of disability, 2016, Shakespeare et al Abstract The...
Bzzt! Nope, it's the UK Department for Work and Pensions The UK's Department for Work and Pensions is drawing up plans for an internal service...
Less than 24 hours of being registered as a member, and I've already been awarded a Trophy! Anyway, that wasn't why I signed up: I joined here to...
If you didn't catch the 10 O'clock News tonight (and possibly the 6 pm one too) and can catch up with it (I think news is only available on...
Ministers should consider abolishing the Department for Work and Pensions after its failure to help ill and disabled people out of poverty, a...
Twitter post from them [MEDIA] Email that can be used: Appgsecretariat@disabilityrightsuk.org
Hi all, Looking for some advice given it's possible I may have to go down the route of claiming benefits. First a little about me: I'm a single...
"Disabled people will be able to work with a dedicated key worker to get and stay in employment, the new Work and Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd...
We last heard from a mother who recounted her daughter’s experience of the far from satisfactory Personal Independence Payment application and...
Does your doctor (GP or specialist) provide medical evidence for benefit, work, education or social care purposes? Yes – it was free, supportive...
Another 'who said' post! I've got Vink's paper (2016). Even the PACE authors themselves say there was no difference between groups in lost...
" A disabled woman from Thamesmead has started a petition to stop people on benefits having to travel so far for assessments. Claudette Lawrence,...
New report: https://www.inclusionlondon.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/ESA-WRAG-Report.pdf Article about it:...
In May, I started my first ever job which I found through a wonderful charity called Astriid. My job is five hours a week, working from home, with...
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