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I think they're not talking meds but cbt which altho cheap, doesn't work for everyone and still has a waiting list
What about those whom it 'fails' or rather will they be seen as 'failing' to "get well"


If it's even offered.
 
You know the drill, surely? Whenever the patient fails to improve after being so generously signposted to NICE-approved treatment (eg 'pacing' a la Wessely) it's neither sheer bad luck nor the clinician's fault. The patient was wilfully uncooperative as they enjoy "the sick role", it stands to reason.
 
Jobseeker Sanction Advice Home Page


Hello and welcome to our website, now we wouldn’t blame you for wondering, who are JobSeeker Sanction Advice? So let us give you some background information.

One thing we’re most certainly not, as is made clear throughout this site, is to have any connection whatsoever with any government agency, neither are we solicitors, so, with who we are NOT out of the way, let’s focus on who we ARE.

We’re a small network of disgruntled ex, Department of Work and Pensions civil servants who left the service for a variety of reasons, not least of which was our dissatisfaction with the pressures being placed on staff to achieve what many of us saw as targets, which were designed in our eyes, to punish people financially for the smallest error or indiscretion.
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http://jobseekersanctionadvice.com/
 
Paulie Tandoori said:
things like that really worry me. absolutely no identifying information about who they are, yet they're saying they will intervene on behalf of sanctioned claimants with dwp and mp's which means claimants handing over lots of extremely personall data to someone off the internet.
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Yeah, I know what you mean... Caution necessary! I was just trying to find out more about them but can't. :hmm: I am asking some peeps I know who have been running online groups for the last 2 years and will see what they no.
 
Confirmed, the full impact of the cuts on disabled people

Today, at the request of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, (EHRC) NIESR, the National Institute for Economic and Social Research have produced a definitive CIA and it is shocking equalityhumanrights.com/commission-welcomes-report-financial-policy-making-and-modelling-cumulative-equality-impacts …

"Households with no disabled adults or disabled children in the 7th and 8th deciles [wealthier households] actually gain slightly from the reform package, whereas households with disabled adults or children (or both) lose out. At the bottom of the distribution, households with no disabled people, or with disabled adults, do not lose as much on average as households with disabled children, or both disabled adults and children. In percentage terms the distributional effects are fairly regressive across all four groups, with households with disabled adults and children doing worst of all up to the top decile."

There is now absolutely no doubt at all that sick and disabled people have been hit over and over again by a barrage of cuts and the more vulnerable the family; the more disabled people within it; the more they have lost.

http://diaryofabenefitscrounger.blogspot.co.uk/

Austerity has hit women, ethnic minorities and the disabled most

http://www.theguardian.com/commenti...-women-ethnic-minorities-disabled-tax-welfare
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From Sue Marshes blog, Its a bit complex , but it looks like sick and disabled people are fairing the worst.
 
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Paulie Tandoori said:
things like that really worry me. absolutely no identifying information about who they are, yet they're saying they will intervene on behalf of sanctioned claimants with dwp and mp's which means claimants handing over lots of extremely personall data to someone off the internet.
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One group of former DWP employees has set up a free online advice service, jobseekersanctionadvice.com. The founder, a 54-year-old grandmother who left the DWP in 2011 and who asked to remain anonymous, says she became uncomfortable with having to implement policies that she believed were designed to punish people for making small errors. Last Monday morning the site had 200 emails, most of them requests for assistance, but six of them offers to help staff the site, two of them from former DWP employees.

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/aug/03/victims-britains-harsh-welfare-sanctions
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Good news , its actually former DWP employees disgusted with the way claimants are being treated, if anyone has a spare few bob I'm sure they would appreciate it for running costs.
 
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Something to make you scoff/froth over morning coffee:

A Selection of Especially Stupid Benefit Sanctions
Cruel, arbitrary and ridiculous reasons why people have their benefits stopped

You are forced to retire due to a heart condition, and you claim Employment and Support Allowance. During your assessment you have a heart attack. You are sanctioned for not completing your assessment.

Source: Debbie Abrahams MP


It’s Christmas Day and you don’t fill in your job search evidence form to show that you’ve looked for all the new jobs that are advertised on Christmas Day. You are sanctioned. Merry Christmas.

Source: Poverty Alliance
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http://stupidsanctions.tumblr.com/
 
I went a meeting yesterday about social care, there were parents/siblings there who had family with learning difficulties, they are being treated appallingly, one lad was at remploy, booted out and put on A4E scheme, but no cognisance is being taken of his needs, etc and its sounds like he is being bullied, this is just shameful.
 
Are the DWP refusing to properly/timely process as a means to cutting costs for the purpose of making UC look cheaper or appear in budget?

Out of Phase Rundown

What is now happening is that an out of phase rundown of the existing payment systems is increasingly affecting the routine payments for people on JSA and ESA. Have you and/or people you know been keeping your noses clean, meeting the requirements placed upon you by DWP to look for work, getting your sick notes in on time and so on, but have routinely not been being paid on time? Then your claim may have been made clerical.

Both computer systems have been rejecting claims being set up on them, for reasons sometimes beyond the wit of man, from the moment that they came into use. These claims have to be administered clerically and then, with the aid of a work around, set up on the system proper. Sometimes, the computer has subsequently rejected at a later stage claims that were fine when they were first set up. These claims have to be removed from the system and administered clerically whilst they are rebuilt. Unfortunately, the rejections and clerical administration are bound to result in delayed payments. Some of these effectively change for months the date on which someone may expect to be paid and imagine such delays happening over Christmas, Easter and/or a Bank Holiday weekend. And some claims are never rebuilt, because the system will not accept them.
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http://jodatu.wordpress.com/2014/08...-going-into-meltdown-for-existing-recipients/
 
Don't normally do this but the lass that this is about is a good mate and a fantastic campaigner in the North of England and really needs a wee hand. He mum is terminal and her partner is also seriously ill. Possibly terminal too. G is on ESA herself and is caring for both of them, at cost to her health and limited finance. She runs, advises and helps people through this FB page and others and campaigns in the North at every public event.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/477412382381161/

If you have a spare quid please donate lovlies.. xx

http://www.gofundme.com/do4s38
 
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Just been reading some posts in a Anti BT group on fb. One woman is reporting that her local council are offering her £50 to take part in a 6 month trial for Unversial Credit. :rolleyes: :facepalm: :mad:
 
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