MP criticises benefit system that is not only ‘cruel and unfair’ but based on a broken promise
This Writer is pretty sure epilepsy is one of the long-term illnesses whose sufferers were told they would not face …
Tag Archives: Multiple Sclerosis
Woman with MS demands changes to PIP assessment after nine-month ordeal
Gill Willis’s experience is commonplace among those who undergo the assessment procedure for Personal Independence Payments (PIP). Assessors from private …
People with multiple sclerosis are the latest victims of PIP misery
People with multiple sclerosis are the latest to be demonstrably victimised by assessors for the new Personal Independence Payment benefit, …
DWP calls in Rentadoc to harass the sick off-benefit
Perhaps we’re jumping the gun with the headline but alarm bells tend to go off when you read that “people …
Here’s why Labour needs to go a lot further to win back our trust
Only days after Ed Miliband announced a Labour government would sack Atos, the party’s conference is hosting an event part-funded …
Disabled? There’s only one way to make Atos ESA assessors understand your condition
We’re all getting to the point now, aren’t we? You know what point I mean; the point where we realise …
Are British workers being lured into health insurance that will never pay out?
Working people in the UK could be facing a huge drain on their income, if they join an insurance scheme …
Unum, Atos, the DWP and the WCA; Who gets the blame for the biopsychosocial saga?
If we know anything at all about the Work Capability Assessment for sickness and disability benefits, we know that it …
When big business dabbles with welfare; a cautionary tale
“Jack Gilligan, who was the Democratic governor of Ohio… said ‘You know there will never be democracy in America when …