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Can't stop crying thanks for responding I've just emailed Debbie Abrahams she doing enquiry into green paper she's very good advocate for disabled it's a panel of 7 and apparently 4 agree with starmer can I ask would it take years to get to court if it did go to court god not even tories went this low

Hi MW, when I read what was written in B and W I felt despondent but then I thought and correct me if I’m wrong that the courts cannot intervene until it becomes law and different claimants and groups can challenge it in court . So it’s not that it’s legal just that it’s not in law yet . Is that right ?

What do you think is the best and most productive way to fight this? We can only deal with the people who currently have the power to change things. Or do we just give up and accept that nothing can be done?

Numerous Labour MP's voted for the past changes to WCA so are likely a lost cause. I want to feel hopeful and is there any possibility for legal challenges to past changes in legacy benefits or are we screwed because we didn't act hard enough back then?

Going back a few pages but if you mean the assessment report did not resemble the actual assessment contents, I think this is something that happens more often than the outside world would like to believe.

I have a recording of my assessment, and when you compare the text of the assessment with what was said, there are numerous discrepancies. There are also points where you hear the assessor typing on the recording but none of the information mentioned at that point appeared on the assessment report.

And for several of my criteria it said "x reported difficulty with this - but I think they can do it fine so 0 points". The assessor never read my evidence. My decision maker read a bit of it but the decision bore zero resemblance to my case or my evidence. It doesn't help that the decision makers and MR people are mostly not the assessors, and so most decisions are made by people who have never met you. In my case everything was based on the assessment report, which was inaccurate, rather than the evidence :/

Reading comments of other claimants I feel like this happens quite often, and is one of the big reasons a lot of cases end up at tribunal. It's also the reason why the 4 points rule leaves nobody safe.

The DWP as an organisation has too much power, basically. There is no regulator. Most other bodies have regulators to ensure checks and balances, but the DWP deals with a huge number of vulnerable people and there is nobody to ensure they do it properly. Without a complete overhaul of the DWP, breaking it down and rebuilding it with these checks and balances, any policy that comes from that department is probably going to be unfit for purpose :/ Just the idea of giving such an organisation more responsibility or ability to monitor or intrude into people's lives is quite terrifying because who is there to ensure safeguarding targets are met?

my first assessment was the same . Ignored all medical evidence, my GP was stunned and said he’s never had his letter ignored before. Only letter assessor mentioned she wrote the Dr said something she didn’t. All questions she put x says she can’t do x but I say she can’t, zero points .i won low award at MR but went to tribunal for mobility . Panel plus dwp member were shocking . The disabled member even tried removing points I had . Went to upper tier where even dwp admitted they erred in law . Took two years of fighting. Now I’ll be back there again.