Every person receiving Personal Independence Payments (PIP) will have their claim reviewed, the Department for Work and Pensions has said. A total of 1.6 million of the main disability benefit claims will be reviewed, with around 220,000 people expected to receive more money. It comes after the DWP...

My dad is in a care home permanent now so my mum is on her own . She is a cancer survivor she has asthma and is bent over with age sciatica - she cannot make her own meals properly as she can't stand straight so i make them for her and i am there twice a day to make sure she has eaten and i do all her...

I hope it is OK to post this here.
I have created a petition to try and get it mandatory to record all face to face assessments for PIP and ESA. Please sign it and spread the work. If we get 100,000 signatures, it has to be discussed in parliament.


https://petition.parliam...

Hello all,

It's still a little bit of time until any of mine are Statute Barred but it's a lot nearer than when I started! In fact, I've just looked and it's just over a year until all of mine are SB!

I've been looking around the site but I haven't found anywhere that describes...

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Was wondering if someone could shed any light on this for me.

I currently get ESA (Supprt Group) and PIP payments every month due to ongoing ill health...................

I was looking in to going to college to do a Business Course, can anyone tell me how and...

Didn't know where to post this , but my husband asked me to post this .

I'm suffering severe anxiety panic phobias and agoraphobia , i am receiving treatment and therapy from professionals.

This CCJ in my name is being paid back at £3.89 a month , yeah i know it isn't a lot...

I just received my PIP form today and im not going through with it , just had a massive panic attack reading all about the assessment i can't cope with this anxiety over this and waiting for the assessment will cause me more illness im in tears here and there is no way im going to put a claim in i just...

We received a letter yesterday telling us about the changes that will happen next year .

Basically as we can understand self employed people need to be earning the minimum wage which is £6.70 per hour , for us this is just not possible as business is very slow right now , my husband made...

Irwin Mitchell has just been granted permission to seek another Judicial Review this time over the length of time PIP claims are taking to complete.

http://www.irwinmitchell.com/newsand...enefits-fiasco

The treatment of the...

Hi all. I'm just starting 2 threads in here, as it seems the right place - but please move elsewhere if needed. I'm now subsisting on Pension Credit, and caring for my wife who became disabled last year. She applied for P.I.P., but is still awaiting the result of this. However - I had 3 credit cards...

Hi guys - and please move this thread if it is in the wrong place - I have a habit of sitting in the wrong seat and pressing the wrong buttons !!! I've spent a few years in these forums dealing with bank charges & PPI etc., and I like to think I'm pretty clever with that stuff - but the damage...

Last july had to stop working because of 3 rare diseases, can't pay morgage, went with shelter
that stoped 31st march 2014, told on 31st they can not buy are house because it is non standered house, so left right in it, morgage balance 167,000, house worth 240,000

Hi guys. My mother has recently been diagnosed with Heart Failure.

Unsure of why yet, as she's due to see a cardiologist on 10th March and to have a echo graph to determine the cause, however she has been put on water pills and ACE inhibitors. Beta blockers will be introduced in the next...

Rules are simples, one poster asks the next poster to name a song by a Singer or a band.


So if I ask a poster to name a song by Cher, the next poster posts ‘Believe’ then asks the next poster to name a song by Doris Day and so on


I’ll start
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Hello!
This title isn't a question as such, but just something I'm musing about, and the stuff I've written below is a bit of a ramble.

My last visit to the dentist two years ago to have a wisdom tooth removed was the push that got me to ditch the effing Debt Management Plan I was...