Official thread: ‘Get Britain Working’ White Paper released Tuesday 26th November
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If any disabled person feels terrified, chronically deeply anxious, depressed then tell the DWP when and if their migrating you to UC and assessments make you feel ill.
Please remember the DWP has a duty of care, and must make reasonable adjustments for the stress and be caring.
The migration to UC may make you feel suicidal tell the DWP you have a right to life, and CABs tell us migrations to UC often make disabled people fell suicidal and this is entirely normal.
Don't be pushed around or bullied, be assertive but not aggressive or threatening.
CABs are making their own representations to govt all the time trying to protect vulnerable people and YOU.
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Stay positive, get advice from a local disabled persons group,
and CAB: Citizens Advice Bureau.
Apply for ''civil legal aid, UK'' please Google latter if things get serious.
Be strong. Be positive. Survive. Even allow yourself to thrive, even in adversity.
Use your friends, they want to support you.
Everyone deserves support, after all we are human, and suffer and deserve apt support and friendship.
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Also, to support yourself, meet other local disabled people going through any benefits reassessments, Google ''local with your postcode disabled peoples groups''.
Please make an appointment with your GP and ask for therapy talking therapies such as CBT and IAPT.
Get the GP and other health professionals on your side.
Be courageous, and find freedom and joy. Be bread-headed and down to earth and do what you have to do to surivive, and better still be happier, than you were before.
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Dear Catherine21, you asked about 1600 suicides of disabled people undergoing DWP assessments for benefits, or being knocked off benefits.
You can Google something like ''DWP causes suicides of people claiming Disability benfits.'' and you will find much information.
or '' DWP Parliamentary select committee UK condemns DWP for neglect, and causing suicides''
Yes this is serious, and we dont deserve such vicious, inhuman mistreatment, we need to organise and fight back.
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Yes the 1000s of vulnerable disabled people who were triggered into suiciding, because the DWP refused to follow right to life, right to duty of care, and other human rights must not be forgotten.
Holly can you pass on below to SCOPES Campaigns Dept please.
So we need to email SCOPE Campaigns Dept and ask them to
- organise a vigil with us at Parliament with a big board list of all the deaths of disabled people, ever since benefit reforms were introduced
- to write to our MP en masse, with an agreed format letter
- write to DWP Parliamentary Select Committee c/o our MP to find out what they are doing to monitor DWP and reduce harm by DWP with Getting Britain Working.
- We need to invite someone from the UN Charter on Disabled Peoples Rights to attend parliamentary lobbies, vigils, and demos.
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Thank yu CATHERINE21 You and everyone deserves thetruth, and support; will you write to your MP, and SCOPE Campaigns Deptartment please, and everyone too?
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If the DWP says its voluntary this migration, then I'm not a lawyer, but it must be voluntary, otherwise if claimants are stressed by force, then there might be a legal case because of duty of care, which includes a duty to grasp the claimants illnessness and act sensitively.
I am usually right in my legal guesses though over 31 years, re DWP, abuse by landlords etc., so I am taking legal advice, from Minds legal unit, and I would encourage everyone to ask the EHRC:
Equality and Human Rights Committee for advice re their anxieties re Getting Britain Working.
Please Google these latter 2 organisations and report your findings to this forum, and SCOPE Campaigns Dept please.
Thank you.
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I shared the info re Canary and MSM re media stigmatisation and attacks on disabled peoples.
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Are you on disability benefits fearing the Getting Britain Working reforms? well red this and write to your MP, expressing your concerns, and if these proposed reforms have already made you more ill, and disabled, please, and copy your letter to SCOPE Campaigns please, by Googling the latter. Thank you. Don't sit back or be a victim, fight back, for genuine support, not bullying into work, if you want to work, taylored to youyr disabilities. Many employers refuse to employ disabled people..
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They are supposed to contact you if they heard nothing back from you regarding UC , i read its for people on Esa they do that for. If you are worried about the post
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From Disability news service dated 16th Jan.
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Another one, how low can the torys go
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Andi66 'They' obviously know the ramifications of ignoring what was found in the fact finding.All of us that fall within this group can clearly identify with what is says.Its absolutely devastating that basically the cold facts are it's been kept quiet in order to save money but glamourorised to look like it is helping.I think a minute percentage if any at all could be helped from this and if this forum is anything to go by its already caused more pain and stress.They keep back tracking to the conservatives actions,wordings etc but it is them who plan on taking it to bill.Surely something can be done now or more lives will be lost.
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Just to hop into this I migrated over in November , got three letters and then a text saying they were going to call (which they did) about claiming UC so I wouldn’t worry about missing the letters @Catherine21 i was so worried about it but it really was fine in the end no horror stories here gratefully but can empathise with being scared of the postman I still do it now lol x
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I know there are a huge amounts of comments on this post and rightly so but could we make an addition to any MP template letters regarding overpayments when a new benefit coming in for which we do not benefit from financially - for example claiming Carers allowance - I now owe them over £400 which was not my fault and also suspecting another overpayment when my husbands ESA starts , both of which have no financial gain and both that causes so much distress having to call debt management and arrange a payment plan .It’s not right !
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I think for me that this has been hope but I realise it is been seen as otherwise. That's fine so I will find other avenues of hope not off ebay but stay true to myself and others
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Hi all,
With nearly 30 pages of discussion, it's understandable that this thread has become somewhat off-topic and includes outdated information, speculation, and some misinformation.
Alongside this, there is the news announced yesterday that the WCA consultation has been ruled unlawful (🎉🙌).
With all of this in mind we have made the decision to close this discussion and move to a new "WCA consultation ruled unlawful - White paper, part 2" discussion and hope you'll all continue sharing your thoughts there.
Thank you for your understanding.
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