The official 2024 budget discussion.

I had to comment, was going to give myself a break but this is so stupid. The dwp can't cope with the small managed migration so how can they cope with all this rush by Dec next year. They asking people for fit notes which is wrong. The back log for my Esa 50 form is 11 months . The message is that they will contact you. And now they doing rushing uc . Why don't they put it back until 28. Timms is useless, he admits its flawed but he not standing up for the disabled. Surely again the disability organisation should put forward a halt until its fixed. They be opening up the workhouses next.

I read both dates before. Timms is a absolute joke. How is he helping us.

To my point of view , he wants us back in the EU . He wants us to rely on foreign imports for food. That's why he's bankrupting the farmers. I don't remember the labour government before Blair. But he's going down the same path I was told.

They should do , leave moving esa to UC back to 28 ,29. They still sending esa renewal forms out . Yet I'm waiting 11 months for mine to be done. No wonder they make mistakes . They aren't trained they have no feelings and they will not understand our complex health conditions. Just use a checklist .

I've had a similar wait Andi, sent mine in April, only to be told by someone from Basildon (doing the fraud sweep of us all) that it hadn't been returned in time. Very luckily I'd sent it signed on delivery + knew that wasn't right. Looked like they were going to slash my benefits and in the end I tracked down the assessment company + phoned them up. They gave me some rubbish about it being returned late, wouldn't take anything I said as evidence + said they'd notify DWP directly to cancel my LCW benefit (I still had it as pushed onto UC from ESA). I immediately made a complaint to UC + very luckily complaints office took up my case + stopped the cancellation of benefits. Still waiting for a decision on the complaint + the health assessment. But complaints office told me the assessment is taken by a number of private companies, Maximus + Serco being 2 of them, your health questionnaire is passed around between them all, sometimes gets lost + then recorded as not having returned your form in time, or not returned at all, + you get taken off the benefit! Unbelievable. I'd advise everyone waiting for a long time to check up, make sure they haven't done the same to you. I put the assessment center's address (on the top of the letter that came with the WCA form) into google + found the phone num to ring. I'll put another thread up warning everyone returning these forms, you must send them signed on delivery or you don't have a leg to stand on if they say it arrived late.