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...
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...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-47443955 Disabled pensioners will no longer face "unnecessary" repeat assessments to continue receiving benefits,...
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...
Twitter post from them [MEDIA] Email that can be used: Appgsecretariat@disabilityrightsuk.org
We last heard from a mother who recounted her daughter’s experience of the far from satisfactory Personal Independence Payment application and...
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...
The IAPT-LTC pathway full implementation guidance was recently published (see below) to support national roll-out of 'IAPT-LTC' (which encompasses...
MATT MEETS BRAVE CONSTITUENT PENALISED BY GOVERNMENT ASSESSMENT SYSTEM "A chronic and debilitating condition which, to the untrained eye, renders...
Nearly one in three of the disability benefit assessment reports completed by a private sector contractor were significantly flawed, confidential...
Article in the Guardian Friday Feb 9th 2018 'Substantial minority' of disability claimants failed by system – MPs A “substantial minority” of...
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...
[MEDIA] Please take a moment to email Laura Pidcock MP at laura.pidcock.mp@parliament.uk with your experiences of claiming PIP before next...
ATOS nurse continues PIP assessment as epileptic claimant bleeds from mouth after multiple seizures From the article: When claimant Daniel...
A court has ruled that a disabled woman should be awarded £5,000 compensation by the government contractor Atos, after a dishonest report by one...
Deadline of November 10th 2017 to submit your input to the parliamentary inquiry on PIP and ESA [MEDIA] Scope of the inquiry The Committee...
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