benefits

Poll can be found on their homepage, https://www.meassociation.org.uk/, middle column, towards the bottom of the page.

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 employment, before or after the trial, and yet CBT and GET were more expensive anyway, and that may be enough. In general benefits is a terrible, terrible...

" A disabled woman from Thamesmead has started a petition to stop people on benefits having to travel so far for assessments. Claudette Lawrence, 49, is an activist and campaigner who also suffers with myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME), which can cause extreme mental and physical exhaustion. She...

New report: https://www.inclusionlondon.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/ESA-WRAG-Report.pdf Article about it: https://theconversation.com/constant-anxiety-of-benefit-sanctions-is-toxic-for-mental-health-of-disabled-people-105067?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1540217904 I was...

https://inclusionproject.org.uk/guest-post/changing-the-system-so-that-more-chronically-ill-people-can-work/

It affects claimants who were transferred from the old Incapacity Benefit (IB) to the newer Emploment & Support Allowance (ESA). They were wrongly put in the Contributory group rather than the Income-based group and so were underpayed to the tune of £1 billion...

Moderator note: This post and subsequent posts have been moved from this thread: David Tuller: Trial By Error: The Cochrane Controversy There is also financial hardship/harm, including (in the UK at least) financial harm that can have far reaching implications when someone retires. There are...

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 because the DWP never request the recording from the IAS. This is because they need permission from the HCP to listen to it and also they don’t have the...

Shocking but perhaps not unexpected Check out @MrTopple’s Tweet:

https://welfareweekly.com/charities-are-missing-the-point-benefit-assessments-were-designed-to-fail/

Another article by Steve Topple using ME and PACE as illustrative of current government policy, https://www.thecanary.co/opinion/2018/06/18/esther-mcvey-and-her-department-are-now-totally-out-of-control/

Justice, finally, for stricken Washington Post reporter by David Beard Here's a short article by a former colleague of Brian Vastag ( @B_V ) published on the Poynter website. Despite its brevity, there are enough links to provide details for the less-informed...

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 don't know if it's available outside the UK). It's about the 'failures' (they look like deliberate misrepresentations to me and to others) to assess...

Speaks for itself really, appalling: https://amp.theguardian.com/society/2018/apr/14/disabled-people-lose-legal-aid-99-per-cent-benefits-disputes

https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/isle-of-man-set-to-scrap-its-fitness-for-work-test/

The IAPT-LTC pathway full implementation guidance was recently published (see below) to support national roll-out of 'IAPT-LTC' (which encompasses MUS). As IAPT-employment adviser cross-referral may be of increasing relevance (due to roll out of IAPT-LTC and inclusion of CFS under MUS in the...

" Work and Pensions Secretary Esther McVey has agreed to publish a series of reviews of Universal Credit after acknowledging there was “no point” in keeping them under wraps. The project assessment reviews for the flagship welfare reform reveal claims of bullying, harassment and discrimination...

https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/mystery-over-shock-fall-in-disability-benefits-paid-to-older-people/

Article in the Guardian Friday Feb 9th 2018 'Substantial minority' of disability claimants failed by system – MPs https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/feb/09/disability-claimants-substantial-minority-failed-by-assessment-system-mps-committee