Fedayn
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It depends on the prognosis and how sensitive the staff member is.
Terminally ill benefit claimants asked by DWP when they expect to die
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It depends on the prognosis and how sensitive the staff member is.
SpookyFrank
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The article in the OP is specifically talking about patients who have been given less than six months to live.
everyone's claim should be processed quickly. This shouldn't be an issue.
SpookyFrank
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Doctor's won't submit someone's entire case notes to the DWP, they simply sign a form declaring that someone is terminally ill. Confidential medical information is none of the DWP's fucking beeswax.
SpookyFrank
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I don't mind the idea of fast tracking the claims of terminally ill people, I just think 'six months or less' is more than enough information for the DWP to go on. What they should do is issue payment as soon as evidence from a doctor is received and sort the fucking paperwork out in their own time.
Fedayn
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Do you think someone who is dying might get their claim sorted quicker than someone who isn't? There's a whole host of caveats. Yes, everyones claim should be done, but understaffing, shit software, backlogs, demoralised staff tends to take it's toll
Indeed, the reason a question may be asked and sadly asked not in a way we'd all like, could be for the best of reasons. Or, as I said in my first post on here, because the DWP worker is a cunt.
I doubt very much the current system prioritises anyone. It's clearly in meltdown at the best of times.
Fedayn
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Given i've worked in DWP for near 13 years, the utter fucking disaster the DWP is notwithstanding, then I reckon I might know if claims are prioritised, wouldn't you?
I don't understand what you said.
I don't know you, i don't know where you work.
Fedayn
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Claims are prioritised, either by managers or staff both officially and unofficially.
ok then.
Fedayn
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What isn't prioritised is adequate staffing, adequate training, a decent non-victimising welrare system..
Etc etc etc
Fedayn
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The atracks on bith staff and claimants has been ratchetted up over the last 18 years......
The budget tomorrow will likely fuck staff as well as claimants.....
Yes, and parents who have to claim DLA for children are also asked 'Is your child is likely to die in 6 months'. Hideous. And for sure they are prioritised, because there was a real likelihood that terminally ill people were being forced to live out their final months in penury because many of them died before receiving any benefits. The sheer awfulness of this meant that the 'scrounger's rhetoric, so insidious and pervasive, failed to get any traction - one of the few times where the DWP were utterly shamed.
Fedayn
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One of the most 'insidious' chamges has been the move to end DLA and replace it with PIP. There was no need to change or end DLA. It worked, in that it could add £120 a week to soneone with severe disability which in turn could mean another £70+ in SDP. It didn't need changing. The ridding of the ILF on top of the introdiction of PIP was yet another grubby change.
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