Hard-up claimants of ESA were shortchanged by up to £20,000 each. Now the number of victims - and money owed - has soared It affects claimants...
Moderator note: This post and subsequent posts have been moved from this thread: David Tuller: Trial By Error: The Cochrane Controversy I wasn't...
Hi! I was absolutely gobsmacked today to find out that the recording of my PIP assessment has not been used by the DM at the MR stage. This is...
Shocking but perhaps not unexpected Check out @MrTopple’s Tweet: [MEDIA]
Another significant report, this time by Z2K, has just been published by yet another well-meaning charity, demonstrating once again the numbers of...
Another article by Steve Topple using ME and PACE as illustrative of current government policy, Last year, the UN accused the Department for Work...
Justice, finally, for stricken Washington Post reporter by David Beard Here's a short article by a former colleague of Brian Vastag ( @B_V )...
I didn't follow this awfully well or remember very well, but you can listen from https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09zt3bw#play from 0204-0747 (I...
Speaks for itself really, appalling: Official figures show that cuts have caused a massive drop in claimants granted help for welfare battles....
Ministers on the Isle of Man are to scrap their version of the UK government’s much-criticised “fitness for work” test, prompting calls by...
The IAPT-LTC pathway full implementation guidance was recently published (see below) to support national roll-out of 'IAPT-LTC' (which encompasses...
" Work and Pensions Secretary Esther McVey has agreed to publish a series of reviews of Universal Credit after acknowledging there was “no point”...
Emerge Australia submission to the Joint Standing Committee on the National Disability Insurance Scheme. Last week Emerge Australia made a...
“Astonishing” figures released by the government show that the number of older disabled people receiving benefits to help with their daily living...
Article in the Guardian Friday Feb 9th 2018 'Substantial minority' of disability claimants failed by system – MPs A “substantial minority” of...
Background for those unfamiliar with the system: Universal Credit replaces half a dozen other benefits including means-tested ESA ('sickness...
Mr Justice Mostyn said in his judgement last month that DWP’s intention had been “to save money” and that the decision to introduce the new...
This was from last year at some point, but it was recently mentioned again on Facebook and we didn't seem to have a thread for it here (although...
In 2007 the BBC covered the fact that the DWP were getting advice on disability benefits from a US insurance company - Unum. Both the BBC News...
Article from earlier in the year. The research that successive governments have relied on to justify slashing disability benefits over more than...
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