UK: Journalist wants accounts from PWME coerced into CBT/GET to get income protection payments

[Sasha]

The MEA is broadcasting this call for help from a journalist:

https://twitter.com/MEAssociation/status/927431823424196608

For those not on FB, the MEA on FB said:

Are you having problems with income protection policies? Can you help a journalist?

If you are having problems with an income protection policy and are being told you must take part in a CBT and/or a GET management programme in order to qualify for payments, or for payments to be continued, and you would be willing to speak to a journalist who is investigating ICPs and ME/CFS please contact us.

Email: admin@meassociation.org.uk.

We will then pass your information to the journalist involved.

Thank you.

Dr Charles Shepherd
Hon Medical Adviser, ME Association.​

 

[Luther Blissett]

Thanks Sasha, is it just me or has there been an increase in the number of UK journalists interested in our thoughts recently?

 

[TiredSam]

That stock photo must be from the 1980s - there'll be a cassette tape in that dictaphone, I used to use one just like it - do I also see a pen and paper? Sends me harking back to my days working in an office just off Fleet Street, after all the journalists moved out and the lawyers moved in. I hope the digital revolution didn't passed this journalist by, I have a mental image of him grabbing his raincoat and rushing off for a meeting in the nearest pub to get his scoop.

 

[Snowdrop]

Is it possible to paste a contact for those not connected to face book?

 

[Andy]

Is it possible to paste a contact for those not connected to face book?

The text of the Facebook post is

Are you having problems with income protection policies? Can you help a journalist?

If you are having problems with an income protection policy and are being told you must take part in a CBT and/or a GET management programme in order to qualify for payments, or for payments to be continued, and you would be willing to speak to a journalist who is investigating ICPs and ME/CFS please contact us.

Email: admin@meassociation.org.uk.

We will then pass your information to the journalist involved.

Thank you.

Dr Charles Shepherd
Hon Medical Adviser, ME Association.

 

[Sasha]

Is it possible to paste a contact for those not connected to face book?

Good idea! I've edited the OP.

Edit: And crossed with Andy.