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missing mandatory reconsideration reply date
HI, does anyone know.. that reply deadline can be missed due to sick note issue by GP. My deadline to reply as i do not agree with DWP and will ask for mandatory reconsideration is 19 APril . However, from 10 april to 10 july i have a FIT NOTE FOR GP. dues this allow me to miss the deadline, pls thank you and wish you all…
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DWP to enhance PIP experience with new 'light touch' review plans for 10-year awards
Taken from the Mirror today - Seems that the 10 year/light touch awards will hopefully improve the users 'experience' of claiming PIP as well as being given more information when awarded such an award. No idea what all of that means but it will only affect new claims next year and those that reach the 10 year point of…
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Question
I have completely gone brain dead do they send out voting card ? If not how to go about voting tbh I never really vote but wasn't to this time normally card comes in post
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Mel Stride gets a peerage !
Rishi Sunak when he left, put Mel Stride, Michael gove , Jeremy hunt etc for a peerage . A joke . Same as saqid Khan being knighted while London is a crime wave
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DPAC
Tomorrow evening from 6.30 till 8pm DEPC holding a meeting about labours cuts you have to register to attend go on depc website to find out more so this will be 11 04 2025 6.30pm start time I think it's zoom not sure thier also organising protests s
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Benefit cuts
Hi I read the other day that the benefit cuts are being investigated by the court of Human Rights .
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Pip changes november 2026
Hi I am 70 year old pensioner who is on PIP it carried on from when I became 66 state pension age. I have enhanced daily living component. I have 15 points 5 x 2 points 1x 4 points Ix 1 point. In 2020 It was awarded period until 2030. Will the changes in november 2026 affect me.
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Scopes reaction to the green paper.
Today, the Government announced plans for the biggest cuts to disability benefits on record. These plans will be catastrophic for disabled people. Leaving us unable to afford the essentials, and to cover the extra costs of disability. Nearly half of families living in poverty already include someone who is disabled. We…
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Consultation
I read the consultations start and labour will be going to diffrent areas to talk to disabled groups and public ? I guess Google areas they will be visiting I'm confused I thought they wasn't doing consultations
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Tired
Since 2023 sunak speech has caught up with me all stress and worry making hair fall out crippling headaches numbness in body horrendous anxiety and major lows and blind panic and debilitating panic attacks I suppose they got thier desired affect
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Dentist
Agggghhh I git to go to the dentist to have my first ever tooth out!!! I'd rather have lunch with sunak and starmer and that's saying something Help
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Funding to fight the DWP
as the title how is the fight against the DWP funded ? would it be worth creating a gofundme or similar in our battle against this proposed legislation ? 100,000 donations of a tenner each = £1M
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Response from my MP in regards to Benefit cuts
I emailed my MP several times (she is labour ) and finally got a response which was as follows. ... Thank you for your email in which you raise concerns over the proposed changes to disability welfare. As you may be aware the government will soon outline its plans to reform this system in detail, following the statement by…
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Ill and disabled people will be made ‘invisible’ by UK benefit cuts
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/apr/08/ill-disabled-people-uk-benefit-cuts-policy-in-practice
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Welfare changes - time is running out
Apparently this govt want to make the PIP / LCWRA changes law as early as May unless they have a legal challenge. The govt planned thus & fake green paper consultation to avoid legal & human right challenges. Time is running out. I really hope a disability charity or law firm concerned with human rights will stand up for…
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Talking to the wind..
It feels like I'm talking to the wind on this forum at times. It's become impossible to flesh out facts or retrieve posts. Richard Burgon MP is one of a few who voted against the 2015 welfare reforms and knows what happened back then. IDS knows what happened back then.. I know what happened back then and I will not stop…
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Time scale
How long till we find out what's actually happening waking up everyday is becoming harder like groundhog day unbearable is thier anything positive any hope
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MP Reply
I’m not sure if Im allowed post this !! I emailed my MP and this is her reply to the benefit reforms !!!!!! Dear [name removed by moderator], Thank you for your email. Nobody in the United Kingdom should have to beg for food – and that includes the most vulnerable in our society. Mass dependence on emergency food parcels…
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Digital ID
Here we go 40 mps urging Digital ID to deal with migration problems me thinks not another form of control I'm so against this !
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Chance to have your say as DWP consults public opinion around the country
https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/dwp-tours-the-uk-to-consult-on-disability-benefit-changes-how-to-get-involved-3628733 I managed to read this full article for free (i am not a subscriber) but sometimes articles from the independent do disappear behind a paywall so here's a screenshot of where these events are
