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Is there human rights 2022?
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Nothing that's been sent to me shows hard evidence of any cases at risk of really losing out
Send him all the coroner reports of deaths directly related to disability benefit cuts. What a crass and obviously untrue statement for someone democratically elected to make. Pure contempt for disabled people and his constituents. Can we find out who this is?
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Ah yes thankyou ☺️
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We are trusting the countries finances (100's billions of pounds) to a LIAR !
The Chancellor states on her LINKEDIN at she was working as an “economist” at HBOS from Dec 2006 to Dec 2009.
This is NOT true.
Reeves actually worked in a mundane support department at the bank, according to multiple former colleagues.
Within the Halifax/HBOS Complaints team there was a small support unit which managed administration processes, IT matters, and small projects and planning.
It was a team of three people FAR from the Economics Department.
HBOS was acquired by Lloyds in 2009 and the Chancellor left in December of that year to pursue a career in politics…
She has to GO !
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It's all a scam thier going through the motions sorry to sound negative they will be talking about work work need to find legal advice fir statutory authority exemption and if that can really be challenged anyone clued up on this?
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I really wish that I could attend one of these - but the distance (100 miles minimum) precludes this…
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@
noonebelieves
, and others in support,
Firtsly I would like to say I have been in the system since 1998 and probably a bit before that as well.
When I first going to Tribunals then, I was also a full Time Senior Shop Steward, as well as working as a Site Engineer so also was a First Aider, and wrote Risk Assessments and Method Statements FOR ALL TRADES.
This covered everyone from the Toilet Cleaner to the CEO, and included doing those jobs and gaining certiication to write those with the HSE and Trade Unions.
My point, everyone has a skill, its a good employer that can see someone for what they do and ask them is there any improvements we can make to make things easier for you and me?
I am not worried to present my case to anyone from the Parliamentary Commission in London, (where the 2014 Social Security Act was based, to a First or Second Tier Tribunal where th big desk symdrom kicks in, and believe everyone that side does know better.
Well, they obviously have not met me yet, since I don't go intheir guns blazing, although I have done but only where necessary. I believe in using the laws and charters set up by the people who "know best and ask them if they know this or that and ask a question knowning the answer and then state can you look at this report and show where it states that.
I am also prepared with, its only a one off? (Well that one life you changed or tthe worse.) and can you explain this report? Or its outcome? Show me the amendments? And this case? And this case? I will show each case andf show you the ACTUAL OUT COME, not the one stated in court, and can you explain why this assessment is still being used and why you have not adhered to the judges direction and sent me the amendments or the amendments made while at court? Or the original requests for information both prior to a MR and after.
This lead me to go further and as a judge said to e Go away and learn your trade if you want to represent someone.
So I did. If you look no get support in your area and want a solicitor to help you in court you will not find one when you state its against the DWP. You are also not given help in a Civil proceeding, again when they find out that the people you are taking a proceeding against are DWP workers, Decision Makers, or Assessment companies HIRED BY THE DWP TO ASSESS US. Is this impartial? what are the assessments designed to do? Originally to sign post us to treatment, and benefits BOTH financially and medically since "NEURO DIVERSANT" DISABLED PEOPLE HAVE NO OTHER MEANS OF EARNING MONEY to pay for things like that dinner I liked butt can't afford, or the heating on because I am cold, because it costs to much, that adaption I need but have no way of finding out where or how to apply, or the rules being changed for access to benefits with contact to me and the way it affect me and my benefits.
Or even if it means another cut to the financial help given on paper to disabled people but taken off you because they forgot to increase your tax allowances and infact class them as UNEARNED INCOMEE AND TAX IT ANYWAY.
AS A QUESTION FOR SOME TO CONSIDER: (I already know the answer.) If you are now having a pension Taxed as unearned Income, then are you entitled to OTHER MEANS TESTED BENEFITS LIKE, Income Support, Universal Credit, sickness benefits (since this should be covered under the Care Component of my Disability which is NOT means tested.) to name some, and also am I entitled to a tax rebate?
the 23rd has already been won since this is to get long over due compensation and to get the amendments logged onto the system that should have come from 1998, and again in2008, the reason ATOS decided to hand back the contract for assessments and BUY THEM SELVES OUT AT AN UNDISCLOSED AMOUT, the reason Ian Duncan Smith Resigned ( not the official one released to the press, but the one he was supposed to answer to in Court and did not attend, (but sent the court a resignation letter to them not me through the court, which the court excepted, I DID NOT.) 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014 Social Security Act, THE 2018 SOCIAL SECURITY ACT, The new Social Care Act from Last Year, NOW 2 YEARS OLD (september) and still not implemented since they gave their own version of that, which the new "budget" is only a revamp of that. (Their version.)
I am fed up with them not doing what a court has instructed to do so this year after APRIL 2025. I will show my contempt for the system by using the system as it was intended for.
I have stopped certain things and do not want to go into details yet and let the system do what it does best and remove things. Then by compiling the results and proving this is not a one off has cost some departments to rethink also "on the run" as they are all trying to put things right before next week.
SORRY guys its all about accountability and the fact that your name, or lack of it on a doument just makes matters worst.
so the fight/discussion soon ends (for Me) (then for you) I would like to see a positive outcome, as all my eggs are not in one basket since here, and at Labour Party head quarters where I am have realised the voting power of the people that are being upset by these CUTS to benefits NOT SUPPORT that we are entitled to will boost the chance to be revoted in not only on our subject of benefits but at Community levels with other issues that involve YOU.
I would be happy to direct anyone to departments for care or adaptions to disability or long term sick, but its only a question of contacting your LOCAL MP and asking if you get no sence from your local council. The council ndon't like receiving letters from constituents that have been side tracked or not heard. Give it a go.
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I have just woke up to a text message from DWP saying my award is under review and if I haven't received the form in two weeks phone them
Jeez I'm bricking it.
My extended reward runs out August 2026 so I wasn't expecting to hear from them this soon.
Can anyone offer me any advice how to avoid a f2f ( I'm agoraphobic with travel phobia)
And I want to try to get an ongoing award this time as my health conditions are long term, have worsened over time and are never going to get better.
I am 61 years old.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you
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QUOTE:
Ministers are scrambling to avoid a damaging rebellion this summer when MPs vote on controversial cuts to disability benefit payments, even offering potential rebels the chance to miss the vote altogether.
The government is due to hold a vote in June and dozens of Labour MPs are worried it will hurt their constituents and could cost them their seats.
Possible solutions include allowing backbenchers to abstain – a major climbdown from earlier votes, when rebels were disciplined or suspended from the party. Ministers are also looking for ways to mitigate the cuts with extra spending on measures to tackle child poverty, including extra benefits payments for poorer parents of children under five.
One Labour MP said: “When people abstained on the winter fuel vote, they were warned that it had been taken by the leadership as voting against the government. This time, however, a number of MPs have been offered the opportunity to abstain.”
Minister that DO NOT VOTE on important issues like this should be oulted as they agree. Since this gives the constituents a chance to air their views.
They have to realise who put them their and who do they support. Why should we not get the winter fuel payment based on the rise of cost of living an the rise that Disabled people need different allowances to those that are not ill or sick and Disabled?
Don't vote, put them up for re-election straight away. If they don't support the cuts THEN SAY SO BY VOTING AGAINST THE CUTS?
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I looked online all booked up yh right god just want information to see if they can be legally challenged
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Hi @chiarieds
I agree with you that the comment from that one MP is very dismissive of our concerns but with the greatest of respect to you, I would like to point out that many more MPs, a very encouraging number of them, in fact have expressed their support for us, if only for, as it appears, self interest reasons as they could lose their seats over these sadistic proposals. 😊
Remember that could be sooner rather than later with the Local Elections being held on May 1st!
Please let me explain 🙏what I think is happening here. This really isn't a criticism of your opinion which I agree with.👍 However I would just like to say that it's essential that, all of us see the WHOLE picture. In journalism, they always like to hear views from the people concerned from both sides of the story.
Hence why, on the one hand, we have heard from a CONSIDERABLE NUMBER of MPs worried about their jobs because of the backlash to these proposals, which is very likely to work in our favour and from, on the other hand, to put it into perspective, just ONE MP who made that dreadful comment. 😠
I know that we are all completely exhausted, despairing and the pressure on us is unrelenting with these nightmarish proposals but most of the article is actually, potentially VERY GOOD NEWS for us.
If MPs who object to these proposals could be allowed to abstain from voting for them instead of running the risk of being suspended after being forced to vote, it means that many more will defend their jobs and abstain instead of voting the proposals in.
The government is considering letting MPs abstain from voting as the unity and functioning of the Labour Party itself is being threatened by the positive reaction of MPs being against the cuts.
This is in our favour because it means that there will be a smaller number of MPs in Labour that will actually vote for the cuts.
Our views, those of the DPOs like Scope and many others, the views of our carers, family and friends have made so many MPs realise that they are at risk of losing their jobs over this.
I've discovered that many of the general public are horrified and sickened at hearing the depth and sheer evil intent of these cuts. A recent survey also showed that 70 - 80% of them believe that we should be treated properly and certainly not have ruinous cuts of this magnitude forced upon us.
Please don't let just ONE nasty piece of work of a supposedly "right honourable" Member of Parliament discourage you from seeing how very positive this news is. He obviously wants to be so dismissive and obnoxious to try to make disabled people concentrate on what he had to say, trying to knock the wind out of our sails after reading of such positive developments.
If you tell the community that you are concentrating on that comment and how negative it is, then other people will also miss the point of this good news and the vicious MP has got his way. He has managed to make good news sound bad, when it isn't and he will have succeeded in making us all feel utterly discouraged again, instead of quite a bit more hopeful.
Believe me, he has done it on purpose, which also tells us how insecure the right wing members of this Labour government are really feeling about this! 🤗He would not do it if he felt confident that these proposals were going to go through without much opposition.
I feel so strongly that this MP was influencing your views so negatively that I have written this post to help you and others, reading your post, to see the overall, much greater good in this article.
Right wing members of the government will try so hard, as the leadership do to try to steal the truth and twist it into something negative to even make good news seem bad.
I apologise 🙏 if I seem disrespectful to you but I really feel it was more important that if we have good news, we should all be able to see it for what it actually is. 😊
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How dare they call this consultation “accessible”? Being put on a waiting list for an event is beyond insulting-though I wasn’t desperate to attend, my intention was clear: to tell them straight to their face that I oppose these cuts and why. Nothing in their event agenda even reflected the real issues impacting me or so many others.that link in their auto response leads straight to a Microsoft Form full of leading questions(which I’ve previously posted about). It’s a trap. People might think they’re opposing the proposals, but the way those questions are framed means they risk being twisted into supporting them instead. It’s incredibly manipulative.
I’ve responded on your other thread about the public bodies SAE-please don’t be disheartened. Our voices are powerful. We can and must use them to resist these brutal, unjust changes. Also, check out mw123’s response there-it echoes the strength in unity and pushing back against these cuts.In solidarity ✊
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I feel like I am slowing slipping down a muddy hill with no chance to get back up. Please correct me but this is really going to happen isn't it. Millons of disabled people will lose benefits and be forced into poverty and claim unemployment benefits. Those in work with related benefits will be forced to find more hours further worsening their conditions and poverty.
I just feel that there is little hope here.
I cry last night for hours when I realized this. Grown man crying in front of family because I can't provide for them..just feel pathetic and useless.
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My area having no elections this year!! I'm so angry how could this be allowed to happen then really are gunning for us what can we do solicitors said contact me later then said sorry we don't deal with this so emailed a couple more it's git to the point where just want to know if we have a chance to challenge this
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Can they be challenged on pip chamges ? Seeing primary legislation?
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But tories that kima said on an interview she will help bring this bill threw when does it become the point that we have to adjust our mind set can't find this question anywhere can this be legally challenged in court because that would be our only hope
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I know God it's unbelievable even tories wasn't that sneaky how can this be happening starmer is the worst thing to ever happen to the UK no words everyday searching for some hope I've emailed a few solicitors for free advice one made an appointment then later said they didn't have anyone in that fields so probably get response after Easter I just want to know if this could be legally challenged
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No don't be scared perfect time to do before changes firstly lose the fear noting to be scared of your entitled to pip so get doctors note says not to but I always if you have any consultations letters put in you don't that's fine I didn't either so get list of medications list how they effect you daily and the next day go doctors fill Sars form out it will have diagnosis and appointments you had with your GP I highlighted relevant conversations to my illness write from morning tonight do not follow these people on tiktok telling you to certain words in your form dwp are onto that honestly when I do mine and I've had two paperbased I write from my heart my struggles my daughter wrote a letter outlining certain issues she's witnessed I do not hold back on the forms I even expressed and said do not lie like you did in 2016 and under part of equality act them saying they follow that I said you don't you got this took me a week I did one bit then at end of week I was raging so wrote all in one go you got this ps ask you doctor to confirm you cannot travel request phone call if you have to and recorded
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Hey no your none of those things it is scary but I try to ground myself and think thier is millions of us imagine 200 300 or more people finding ways to stop this it could be triple that alot of knowledgeable people our fighting as we speak I keep looking for answers can we challenge this I do know 3 law firms involved 38 degrees campaigns are asking for people's stories Google that fill in let's do what we can I've emailed disability uk and many other charities just email Google send messages say what you said on here lay our hearts on the line show them we are human we are suffering we need to get mps to see that pls don't turn it inwards in an ideal world I'd have a great job be sociable have some sort of happiness but I'm here and I haven't got those things doesn't mean we are useless and everyday we need to push on and see what part we can do even if emailing mp again and again big hugs you got this
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Thank you Catherine
How do I get access to the equality act on disability rights?
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