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ESA, Permitted Work, and self-employment!
Hi all! After many years on ESA, and now PIP, I am now at the stage where I would like to start doing some kind of work. I would love to do pet sitting, as I feel that would allow me to combine my love of animals along with helping my communications skills and it would help keep me active. I know there's a need for it…
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Finding a job when you have MH conditions & FND/NEAD
Hello, I've posted quite a bit about losing my job and I ultimately think that's going to happen. But when I'm better I'm worried my lifelong anxiety will get in the way of me ever working again. I know the job centre have said there's schemes such as IPES, Remploy etc. But what other schemes can help do CV's, Interviews,…
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Linked periods of sickness
Hi. could someone explain how this works please. I work 16 hours and had a week off sick in June. I’m off sick again but I’ve been told I can’t have ssp because I haven’t paid enough NI in the 8 weeks previous. If I go back to work and work 8 full weeks would I be able to claim ssp ? Thanks
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PIP & Cost of Living
Morning - just got off the phone to DWP re: PIP and Mandatory Reconsideration. Advisor told me that son should be eligible for Government's 'Cost of Living Support Package'. I didn't really know anything about it and she told me it should be £650 - two payments of £326 in July and £324 in the Autumn. However, I've looked…
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I need help with finding a job
Hello, S= community! I have trouble to find a job suitable for me. I need a job that doesn't require from me to move too much and to be fast, coming and going. I was diagnosed with intracranial hypertension. Please, I need help, because looking in internet and applying for jobs is not working. I desperately need to find a…
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Advice needed: furniture requires specialist set up which I can't do, but they won't refund it
Hi friends, I've received a desk from my new workplace. It's really heavy duty, and there are not enough holes for the table legs to screw into.Engaging with the furniture hire company, they have been really insensitive saying things like: "When attaching the legs to the desk, the two screws which line up with holes are…
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Childcare & Disability Declaration
Hello - appreciate some employment advice if possible: Son has nocturnal epilepsy - controlled with meds. Has never had any issues in day/while awake and has not missed any school. Has just completed A levels and hoping to either go to Uni in Sept or take a gap year. A summer job helping in a summer childcare setting has…
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Sorry situation with regards to work
Hello, You may have seen some of my previous posts on here about work and returning to work. My employer has kept my job open still after 18 months. Anyway, they've given so many weeks to decide if I'm to return and return to night shift working. I was wondering if anyone could give me any advice? I currently struggle with…
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I accepted a role at the end of May and I still have no start date
I accepted a role at a private hospital near me around 24th May 2022. Almost every week I give them a call for the past month and I have not received a response to any messages left. I have signed a contract with them. It is a zero hour contract. Can they turn around and say I have no job anymore? I simply want a start…
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The Employment Problem
So I have multiple disabilities Neurofibromatosis type 1 - this causes issues with my bones, muscles, nerves and causes tumours (are mostly benign but some can be cancerous, but some can grow in areas that then causes pain and mobility issues) I have cognitive issues due to NF1, learning difficulties and dsylexia I also…
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Hi, my name is anniebb! Having issues at work with hr
Hi everyone my name is ann i am 56
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Ableism Advice
Hello everyone. This is my first post and I'm here because I am fed up with ableism in the workplace. I'm fuming right now after another example where the organisation just can't to see that their actions and the words they use are ableism. I really hope that this is lack of education so I want to do something about it.…
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DDA Greivance - Denied A/L specifically due to "employee's autism, and requiring routine"
Hello to all I've just signed up and joined as what appears to be a fairly awful event has just occurred to my son. He works in a local government leisure centre, which is run by a private company on behalf of the local council. Due to Covid, he has accumulated a great deal of A/L, which he has been informed he is required…
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Thinking about doing a course to help me to get a Health Care Assistant job at my local hospital
Hi everyone, I'm thinking about doing a course to help me to get a Health Care Assistant job at my local hospital, but I'm not sure where to start. I have a female friend who has 5 sons (her youngest is 1 now I think) and her eldest son is amazing as he helps his mum a lot when he can. Her middle son is in like a sort of…
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Worried that I may have a new work coach as my current one was waiting for her contract to be renewe
I currently have a lovely female work coach at my local job center as she listens to me and answers any questions that either myself or my fiance have (my fiance comes with me for support as I can get really flustered and sometimes forget to asks questions I've wanted to ask if I'm on my own). But at one of my previous 3…
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Disability Discrimination at work?
Hi, I am new to this site. I wonder if anyone can help me please.........I have Sjogren's Syndrome ( a "hidden disability") with many debilitating manifestations (which I call my 'living hell') which result in a miserable living existence. An auto immune condition which effects all aspects of my life. Following an OH…
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An Interview under the Disability Symbol Scheme
Hello. I'm currently in the process of applying for an IT Support Assistant role at my local college, which I have just finished, on a 7 week contract, so just before I start University. One question in the application form caught my eye though: 'Are you seeking an interview under the disability symbol scheme?' What does…
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My SSP stopped, employer didn't tell me
I'm looking for help and advice. I have been on sick leave from work since 24th February this year, 2022. I received SSP and company sick pay in my April and May monthy wage payments. I didn't get anything for March for the sick leave, as the way cut off days work, the SSP and CSP wouldn't be applied to that month's…
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Hidden disability; Depression & Anxiety Employment tribunal ?
I believe my employer (unnamed government department) has discriminated against me. I have depression and anxiety, a condition that I declared on my application prior to joining. The role I am in now is not the role that I currently applied for, and was subsequently moved into the contact centre, a move that we were told…
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At home jobs
Does anyone know at home jobs because I have tried finding a job and no one will take me someone please find me a at home job needing job and I don’t like being in town in Carmarthen needing a at home job
