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Post by Philip Ayres on May 3, 2013 15:27:48 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on May 3, 2013 16:33:09 GMT
Jolly good. I haven't had any dealings with PIP yet but as soon as I saw that the buffons at ATOS got the contract for it I knew it was going to be a crock of shite.
-Ralph
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Post by kayevcee on May 3, 2013 18:01:21 GMT
Excellent news. A welcome change of pace in this business.
Good luck to her!
-Nick
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Post by legios on May 3, 2013 22:16:29 GMT
Fantastic news! It is great that someone is going to drag the whole PIP thing into the light of the courts. Hopefully this will throw some more publicity on it and show a few more people what a horrendous mess it is.
Karl
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Post by Philip Ayres on May 6, 2013 16:40:32 GMT
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Post by kayevcee on May 6, 2013 19:29:47 GMT
Even he agrees that ATOS is a terrible idea.
All out war in the comments section. Good to see a lot of disabled folk speaking up. From one particularly impassioned comment:
"More than half the appeals are overturned. In the meantime the disabled person lives like an animal with no income and no support.
They are also not included in any figures, disabled or unemployed, because to the state, they don't exist.
The only place in the world where you can be severely disabled but fit for work, and not have a job but also not be 'unemployed'."
-Nick
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Post by Philip Ayres on May 14, 2013 17:57:40 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on May 14, 2013 18:41:09 GMT
I'm seeing the effects at work.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 2, 2013 17:16:28 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 8, 2013 13:37:32 GMT
I've come back home to find a letter notifying me of my transfer from Incapacity Benefit to ESA.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 17, 2013 14:22:19 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 24, 2013 10:27:58 GMT
Just done the ATOS ESA forms
That was pure evil. Left me so shattered that I had to crawl back to bed
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Post by kayevcee on Jun 24, 2013 11:38:49 GMT
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Post by legios on Jun 24, 2013 11:46:31 GMT
Just done the ATOS ESA forms That was pure evil. Left me so shattered that I had to crawl back to bed They are pretty horrendous as forms go. Karl |
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Post by kayevcee on Jul 1, 2013 12:04:29 GMT
To the surprise of absolutely bloody no-one: Impact of housing benefit changes 'worse than feared'"Cobalt Housing, which owns nearly 6,000 mainly family homes in Liverpool, says the benefit change is putting "terrible pressure" on tenants. "We have perfectly good, three-bedroom homes that people are telling us they can't afford to live in, because of the bedroom tax," says managing director, Alan Rogers." If you didn't see that coming, you're probably a front bench cabinet minister. -Nick |
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 1, 2013 18:41:38 GMT
Oh they saw it coming. They just don't care.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jul 2, 2013 12:44:17 GMT
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Post by kayevcee on Jul 2, 2013 14:23:35 GMT
Astonishing. I'm lost for words.
-Nick
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 2, 2013 16:07:36 GMT
Not at all surprised.
I go to those things sometimes as part of my job. Naturally, I can say no more in a public forum.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jul 2, 2013 16:18:46 GMT
Not at all surprised. I go to those things sometimes as part of my job. Naturally, I can say no more in a public forum. -Ralph Any advice you can offer to someone who is probably going to have to go for one shortly? |
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 2, 2013 19:35:11 GMT
Speak to me when you get the letter.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jul 9, 2013 15:46:01 GMT
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Post by legios on Jul 9, 2013 20:30:11 GMT
Read a similar article in the specialist housing press a week or so back. It makes me as annoyed now as it did then. The thing about the HB reduction, and what really annoys me, is that it doesn't take any account of peoples ability to move to different accommodation - people may not be able to move because of adaptations that they need to their homes, plenty of people can't move because the smaller accommodation for them to move to just does not exist. How can you have a policy that is designed to promote movement to somewhere that isn't there? After all - if everyone moved to the "right size" of accommodation then there probably wouldn't be any saving to be made on the HB bill, and we can't have that now can we?
Karl
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 9, 2013 20:45:17 GMT
I'm seeing it cause real human misery on the ground. I expect it to be eventually repealed Poll-Tax style but not before social unrest, alas.
-Ralph
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Post by kayevcee on Jul 9, 2013 23:49:51 GMT
At the risk of winding up on a GCHQ watchlist, it sounds like it's time to get out and start setting things on fire then!
-Nick
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Post by kayevcee on Jul 22, 2013 15:54:10 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jul 30, 2013 21:13:38 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 31, 2013 7:15:11 GMT
I do hope all the poor, unemployed, disabled and foreign nationals vote against this Government in 2015. The current administration seems to hate them all.
-Ralph
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Post by blueshift on Jul 31, 2013 7:26:43 GMT
I do hope all the poor, unemployed, disabled and foreign nationals vote against this Government in 2015. The current administration seems to hate them all. -Ralph I don't think foreign nationals can vote! |
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 31, 2013 17:48:35 GMT
They can if they have settled here, ie my other half.
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