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Green Paper Related Discussions
The consultation deadline is currently the 30th June 2025. Have you responded yet? If so, have you any tips for those who are looking to? This is our newest discussion about Labour's Green Paper on benefits reforms. If you're looking for links to the consultation and information about consultation events, you can find that…
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JKP Writing Prize - a competition for aspiring writers 📖🥇
The JKP Writing Prize is a competition for aspiring writers from underrepresented backgrounds. The theme this year is: Everyday Disability and Chronic Illness: Stories of Joy, Resistance, and Anti-Ableism. The voices of disabled and chronically ill individuals remain vastly underrepresented across many sectors, including…
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🌷🌸🌷Gardening Corner🌷🌸🌷
Hey everyone! Since “How does your garden grow” was so popular I wanted to start my own post for the gardeners of the community! Would be great to share advice and tips with others or even just post what new plants you have purchased Today I bought 6 young rhododendron which I know are a bit controversial but couldn’t…
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Green Paper and Benefits Reform Updates
With all the speculation around in the press and on social media, it can be difficult to find clear information about Labour's benefits reforms. Misinformation can spread easily and this can create a lot of anxiety at a time when lots of people are already feeling worried by the proposals. We wanted to create a discussion…
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Happy Pride Month 2025 🌈😄
Happy Pride Month!🏳️🌈 June is LGBTQ+ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer) Pride Month. a time to celebrate love, equality, strength, resilience and of course, pride! But often, people who are both disabled and LGBTQ+ are left out of the conversation, have parts of their identity overlooked or misunderstood and…
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Publication of Commissioning Framework for Children and Young People with Cerebral Palsy
After working with NHS England and other key stakeholders, the most important of which were families, Scope is very pleased to announce that the Commissioning Framework for Children and Young People with Cerebral Palsy was published at the start of May. The framework can be found here: NHS England » Commissioning framework…
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Join our online event for Parents of Children with Cerebral Palsy 💚
You're Invited! 🤝 Connect with other parents 🧠 Meet our Cerebral Palsy Specialist, Lucy 💬 Share your story and let us know how we can support you 🗓 When: Thursday, 26 June 🕦 Time: 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM 📍 Where: Zoom 🎟 Reserve your free ticket now on Eventbrite!
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Disabled Children and Sleep - Services and Signposting Support😴💤
Part One- An Introduction😴🛌 Part Two - Practical Sleep Strategies for Parents and Carers🌙😴 As our final post for sleep week, we are going to look at signposting and services available to help families caring for disabled children. Specialist Help with Sleep Cerebra has free sleep service and offer individual support for…
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Feedback on moving into residential care
Do you live in residential care? Or have you lived in residential care in the last year? We're creating a new webpage for the Scope website and would love to hear from you. If you'd be willing to help, please email Content.Core@scope.org.uk. It would involve speaking to us about your experience of moving into residential…
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Join our special online event for Parents of Children with Cerebral Palsy 💚
You're Invited! 🤝 Connect with other parents 🧠 Meet our Cerebral Palsy Specialist, Lucy 💬 Share your story and let us know how we can support you 🗓 When: Thursday, 26 June 🕦 Time: 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM 📍 Where: Zoom 🎟 Reserve your free ticket now on Eventbrite!
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Get your MP to act against cuts
Hi everyone 🙂 It's Tori from Scope's campaigns team here. I think it's fair to say that the last few weeks have been pretty bleak. We saw widespread news coverage last weekend about potential Government proposals to cut disability benefits. I know this is worrying for many of you. MPs from all parties need to understand…
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Important: Check if you have a Radio Teleswitch Service (RTS) meter before the switch-off in June
What’s happening? If you have a Radio Teleswitch Service (RTS) meter (black box in the image), they are being switched off on 30 June. (Caption: The RTS meter is the black box on the right. There are different types, so yours may look a little different. But they are all black and say Radio Teleswitch on them.) What will…
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Pip review complete
I've had a txt from dwp saying my review is complete this is 15 days since they received the assessment report, does anyone know if a short time like this is a good thing or normal 🙂
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Keep one eye open
Naturally we are focused on benefit cuts starmer signing deals leading to 2030 Argentina have refused to join The Who Convention they are under the pretence this is for the people it is not it is a complete dystopian society run by gates and elites on 14th of July 2025 is no doubt starmer will fully sign us over then his…
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Hi, my name is dan47!
Hi everyone, I'm having a bit of a nightmare with universal credit and I'm wondering if anyone can help or advise. I received a migration letter telling me I needed to migrate to universal credit, I was on ESA support group and housing benefit. I started the process, I filled out everything correctly, went for the ID…
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Pip report
Hi I got a copy of my pip report from activities 1 to 10 I scored 11 points and planning following journey 10 points does this mean DWP will award me pip or is it down to DWP if they decide they gave me them points
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Hi, my name is jobroon!
Hi I have been off work for 2 years with health issues and my sick pay ended a few months back , they have take me down the capability of work route as im not fit to work ,I am now on Esa and my employer has just informed me I will get a pay out of under £6000 will this effect my benefits?
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ESA tax
Hi. I so thankful for all your help you have given me on here! I would appreciate your insight on this as I'm confused 🤔. Just got a letter saying about my change to universal credit from contribution based ESA. They have included a tax slip. I'm confused because they are saying the ESA type I was on was classed as…
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Help with mandatory reconsideration
I have my PIP letter come through i scored really low, and i feel that it has been written for someone else, they do not see to understand my conditions at all (ADHD/Anxiety, Autism, fibromyalgia, dyscalcilar) There are so many things that i disagree with, firstly they stated that I have no diagnosed sensory, cognitive or…
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Hi, my name is EssexPaul!
hello am Paul from clacton
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Paper based PIP review
Hi, I’m hoping someone can help me as this whole process is spiralling my mental health. I received a text last Thursday 29th May saying you review is complete, please wait for letter. I never had an assessment or anything. They started my review 1st September 2024 and I told them of changes with lots of medical evidence.…
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A to Z to tv
lets have a game A to Z to tv old new just A to Z to tv a Angels,,,,,,,,,,,
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Tell us some boring news.
There's intrigue in the mundane and so today we're asking you to share: what is something boring you've done lately? Emptied the kitchen bin? Run out of teabags? Bought a clothes airer? Cleaned the oven? Tell us. I'll go: I walked to the shop to post a parcel, but I'd accidentally deleted the digital label they needed to…
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Pip assessment report
Hi I just received my pip assessment report today no decision yet made I’m confused. pay 1-6 the assessor has mentioned all the help I need an struggle with, but when I look at the questionnaire page the assessor has marked me discriptor A on everything and wrote “ suggests he should be able to reliably be do this that”…
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Values in life
Hi to everyone, i couldnt sleep last night thinking about life, im a highly sensitive person, sometimes i heard from some people that i had to change because i was hypersensitive, my aunt told me that when i was little i used to walk down the street giving money to people, i couldn’t eat and sleep when the animal i wanted…
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Submitted claim for ESA migration to UC Support Group. What next? Follow up questions
Hi. I finally submitted my claim for migration to UC today after many stressful weeks. So, I would like to clarify a few things… I seemingly managed to confirm my identity online, but as soon as I had done it and it said it was successful, which i screenshotted, ("you have answered the security questions successfully for…
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So stressed about the migration process, didn't receive 2 week run on of ESA and HB
Hi, I hope you're all doing as well as can be. I'm in the process of migration from ESA support group after receiving a migration notice to apply for Universal Credit. I'm very stressed because I was supposed to receive a 2 week run on od ESA esa and housing benefit, but this did not happen. My online housing benefit…
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How is your day going?
A cold start to the day brr, how's your day going? I'm longing for a coffee but got a sleeping cat draped over me, pinching my body heat.
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The person below me
Make a guess about the next poster, the next poster responds to your guess answering if it's true or false and then makes their own guess about the next poster. For example: Poster 1- The poster below me hates cheese Poster 2- False, I love it and eat it every day! The person below me likes dancing
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Child disability element from UC/ backdating
Hello all and hope you all are well. My child has been awarded PIP and her payment started in April in which I have informed UC. They keep missed the element payment so I had to inform them again and they have only just added the element onto the UC payment from June. They haven't backdated the missed months which I will…
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Local Housing Allowance
Does anyone know if I can get a One Bedroom Accomodation in shared renting , if I am over 35 and on severe disability allowance? Does anyone know where to find official documentation for this, apart from Shelter's Web page?
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I have Aspergers, and will be homeless in seven weeks. Help me please.
Hi, I'm sorry if this is a bit all over the place, but I'm really struggling and just need to talk to someone who gets it. I'm autistic and live in Northern Ireland. My landlord has basically said I need to leave by the end of July. He mentioned Radius housing and even called them on my behalf, but nothing is certain. I…
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Request please.
Hi, This morning about 11:50 am i was trying to post a comment under the topic Cool Cats and again for the umpteenth time ( im sorry for my English if is not grammatically correct as English is my second language and im under a very big stress ) a message popped on my phone screen that my comments will appear after is…
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LHA rate for shared housing, under 35 on PIP
Hello, I just wanted to double check, I am looking to rent a room and am I right in thinking that as I'm on PIP I can get the one bedroom rate instead of the shared rate, even though I'm under 35 and will be house sharing? Thanks :)
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UC Managed migration - Now receiving LESS than before Migration
Hi, I wonder if anyone can assist please? I'm assisting my sister with her managed migration. She was previously on ESA contribution based support groupl. She received £489 per fortnight. Her Housing benefit was around £107 per week, this was paid directly to her Housing association, her rent was £639 however the deficit…
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Backdated benefit cap
Hi does anybody know if they back date you the benefit cap when awarded lower capability? My first fit note was submitted on the 21st Feb no gaps had my assessment yesterday went really well I think and someone's told me they can backdated this but IV not seen anything about this many thanks DD
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A - Z professions game
Improved game as the last one ended up with all the same letters Name a profession starting with the next letter of the alphabet to the one before I’ll start with Accountant
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whats everyone having for breakfast and lunch?
Since im not the only one obsessed with food and liking to get ideas thought would start this thread Im having brunch of bacon and eggs, anybody else having anything nice? ill have dinner later but no third meal
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Cool Cats
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The five letter game
So here's a new fun game for you all to try out. I've picked five letters. The next person has to make a sentence using just the five letters. Like this... T C B G F Next person replies with something like "This Could Be Great Fun" Then they leave another five letters. Got it? The first five letters are... W Y I M K
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The Cost of Cuts
Right now, the government is considering changes to disability benefits. But for millions of disabled people, these benefits are a lifeline. They are the difference between surviving and being pushed deeper into poverty. Life costs a lot more when you’re disabled. Needing more financial support is not a choice. Disabled…
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UC appointment at job centre
Hi, some advice please. The appointment at the job centre next week is our first appointment it is to confirm our id. What else will we have to do? My hubby should be put into the LCWRA group because he is in the ESA support group. I get carers allowance and I will be taking my letter I had the other week as proof, I've…
