#department of work and pensions

[generalelectionmusings]

#dwp #department of work and pensions #uk #politics #tory #conservative party #ukpol

[magiclovingdragon]

I saw this post on facebook from an organisation that helps people with their PIP applications last night

I have my PIP reassessment tomorrow, they know I have anxiety and today I have received 3 phone calls, every 2 hours from a withheld number… I haven’t answered. I fully suspect its the DWP trying this tactic and even despite my thinking that, its still succeeding in triggering my anxiety

Update: Turns out it was PIP phoning, it was one of the first things they said to me on my phone assessment. Supposedly the 4 phone calls (another happened after I made this post) from a withheld number were to remind me for my appointment today but they sent me a text during the day inbetween 2 of the calls and you’d think they’d leave a voicemail so yeah its crafty and the worst part is it worked, today its not only triggered my anxiety but its also made my fibro & ME flare up today with increased pain and fatigue (not helped by me not getting any sleep last night), its flared my ibs and gave me a migraine after the call ended

#anxiety #dwp #pip #personal independence payment #department of work and pensions #uk disability benefits #disability benefits #uk government #uk govt #uk politics #disability issues #ableism #uk benefits #uk benefits system #disability benefits uk #anxiety problems #anxiety issues #mental health #disability #ibs #migraine #fibromyalgia #me/cfs #myalgic encephalomyelitis

[lilyliveredlittlerichboy]

i dont have a list of enemies or whatever but if i did then the dwp would absolutely be gunning for the top spot. how do they manage to fuck up so badly so often

#dwp #department of work and pensions #i need a tag for my own rambles #uk politics

[yestolerancepro]

How can DWP jusify this

#the big issue #Department of Work and Pensions #disability benefits

[18thcenturythirsttrap]

...“It just so outrageous, really, that they choose to persecute a frail, sick old woman for what to them is a relatively small amount – for something that she was not capable of managing,” said Chitseko. “When the super-rich get away with millions, it’s the injustice of it, the unfairness of it. It’s just really upsetting and frustrating”.

...The case, one of dozens involving the families of unpaid carers who have spoken to the Guardian, is another example of Britain’s chronically disconnected welfare system.

The DWP would have known that Chitseko’s mother was no longer eligible for the severe disability premium because her daughter had given the department her mother’s national insurance number and other details when applying for a carer’s allowance.

The department could, in theory, have stopped the payments itself. Instead, it placed the burden on the recipient: in this case an elderly vulnerable woman with early stage dementia.

And when the DWP realised three years later that she had been overpaid a severe disability benefit, instead of asking whether the department was at fault or whether she ought to have known the rules given her age and illness, it sought immediately to claw back the money.

The DWP needs to be demolished and a humane benefits system built its place. No chance of that with the Tories or Labour, though. Both the Tory 'Government' (which isn't fit nor competent to govern) and the Labour 'Opposition' (which opposes nothing the Tories do but simply claims it could do those things better) have indicated further clampdowns on benefits claimants after the next election.

Fuck this bullying, ableist, ageist, mean-spirited shithole of a country.

#tw dwp #department for work and pensions #benefits #welfare #fuck the tories #fuck labour #uk politics

[princessanneftw]

Interesting 👀

#my first thought is a documentary about liz #OR a documentary about charles #but the woman is a ministerial videographer for the department for work and pensions #so idk #maybe remembrance related? #ill have to do some digging #princess anne #princess royal #british royal family #brf

[dear-indies]

#uk politics #ableism tw #politics #Department for Work and Pensions #disability

[cfs-crohns-colitis-warrior]

Fuck DWP and the benefits system. It’s so ducked up. Can’t have more than £6000 in savings or my benefits start to go down, so how am I ever supposed to save for anything? This includes having an ISA where the money can only be used to buy a house or for retirement.

I mean, I get they can only do so much and stuff, but the way everything is laid out is just so fucked up. It takes forever to even get benefits and a lot of people who need the give up trying to get them because it’s so damn difficult and there’s so many hoops to jump through.

I want to start my own business to try and earn a little so I don’t have to completely rely on benefits, but apparently the business account amount also counts towards my savings, which is ridiculous to me because it’s not my money, it’s the companies money. Sure, I own the company, but the money in that business account would purely be for reinvesting in the business, for buying more stock and materials. If the money were to be transferred to my personal account then it’d be mine, cause it’d be my wages, not that it would even be much. I just think it’s stupid.

Then there’s the fact that when I’m able to move in with my boyfriend, I don’t get treated as a separate person. It won’t be my savings only that affect my benefits, it’ll be our savings so I probably won’t get anything at all, which is insane because I can’t expect my boyfriend to pay for absolutely everything, all by himself. I need to be able to split the bills, especially since the majority of power used will be used by me since I’m always home. I need to be able to help pay for the food we eat and for my own stuff like my toiletries and any kind of entertainment I use to get me through the day so I’m not mindlessly staring out the window depressed all day because I can’t work. I can understand they want to take your partners earnings into account, but I should still be treated as an individual person. Sure, if I were to move in with a millionaire, done give me benefits, because as much as I’d like to be able to pay my own way with stuff it would be ridiculous to claim benefits while being with someone rich who can afford to pay for everything, even if you should be able to pull your own weight, which you would be doing if you were able to work properly. Unfortunately my boyfriend is not a millionaire (though I wouldn’t change a thing, I love him to pieces), and therefore will not be able to pay for everything all by himself. If I don’t get any benefits and I struggle running my own business, either in terms of sales or I’m terms of energy to keep it running in order to make anything to sell, then I’m stuck with nothing coming in and having to rely solely on my boyfriend, and that’s so unfair.

We need to be able to save for a house so we can live together. We need to be able to have savings in case anything goes wrong, like the boiler breaks or we have to pay for something in an emergency. We need to be able to pay for food, to pay the bills, to pay for the car for getting around, to pay for insurance etc. There’s so much stuff you have to pay for, and to have two people relying on one income that is only suitable for one person isn’t right.

Sorry, rant over, I just had to complain somewhere. Money is stressing me out and I’m worrying about the future and how we’ll manage everything. I want to enjoy the now but I’m just so stressed about the future and trying to plan things out it’s just not going that way at the moment. Fingers crossed my health improves and I can either get a normal job again or I can have enough energy to make my business a success and actually earn decent money to contribute to everything we want to pay for in the future.

Wishing everyone well and hoping things improve for everyone asap, especially for people struggling with their health, money, any struggles they’re currently facing tbh. I wish the world were a better place.

#disability benefits #benefits #benefits system #uk benefits #dwp #department for work and pensions #life sucks #money troubles #stressed #worried #worried about money #future

[feckcops]

Why the trope of the benefit “scrounger” has returned

“Everything is dark. A siren yelps, drums kick in, police in riot helmets march up a stairwell, and a man – his head out of shot – zips up a black stab vest marked ‘DWP’.

“It’s Tom Pursglove, a Tory minister of the Matt Hancock aesthetic (Foxtons Tintin), tabard strapped over his suit, standing beside a tree. Brow furrowed, he quasi-quotes Liam Neeson’s ex-CIA maverick in the 2008 film Taken: ‘We will track you down. We will find you. And we will bring you to justice.’ ...

“This is the Department for Work and Pensions’ latest campaign warning against welfare fraud. It was tweeted from the department’s account last Thursday morning, with a take-on-Taken caption: ‘At DWP we have a very particular set of skills that we use in conjunction with the police to tackle fraud.’

“The focus on benefit cheats is disproportionate to the reality. Fraud amounted to just 3 per cent of welfare payments in 2020-21, or £6.5bn. This looks even less significant when you compare it with tax fraud: the ‘tax gap’ between what is owed and what is collected (of which fraud is a large part) is at 5.1 per cent, costing the government £42bn a year. Fraudulent Covid loans, meanwhile, cost the UK £17bn – most of which the government does not expect to recover.”

#benefit cheats #benefit fraud #benefits scroungers #benefits claimants #benefits #welfare payments #jobseekers allowance #universal credit #welfare state #department for work and pensions #dwp #conservatives #conservative party #tories #tory party #uk politics #uk

[nem0c]

The Prophet Ezechiel declaring what the sinnes of the citie of Sodome were, reckoneth idlenesse to be one of the principall (Ezechiel 16.49). The sinnes (saith he) of Sodome were these, Pride, fulnesse of meat, abundance, and idlenesse: These things had Sodome and her daughters, meaning the cities subiect to her. The horrible and strange kind of destruction of that citie, and all the countrey about the same, (which was fire and brymstone rayning from heauen) most manifestly declareth, what a grieuous sinne Idlenesse is, and ought to admonish vs to flee from the same, and embrace honest and godly labour.

An Homilie Against Idlenesse, Second Book of Homilies, Church of England 16thc.

#department of work and pensions internal documents 2023

[generalelectionmusings]

#therese coffey #dwp #department of work and pensions #politics #uk #tory #nasty party #ukpol #shady #untrustworthy #evil

[davidhencke]

The overlong and continuing battle for 50swomen to get their delayed pensions: My interview with Marie Greenhalgh on South Manchester's Radio Wythenshawe FM

This week I gave a long interview with radio presenter Marie Greenhalgh who is also a 1950s born woman. It is as much a chat as an interview.. For those who missed it and would like to have heard it here it is – courtesy of the community radio station. I was absolutely delighted to be given such a chance to explain in detail this sorry story which has never been properly covered by mainstream…

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#50swomen #CEDAWinLAW #department for work and pensions #Mel Stride #Waspi

[thatqueerbat]

dwp: tells me my benefits assessment call will be at 9am

dwp yesterday: tells me actually it'll be at 11am, the assessor has something come up

dwp today, at 11:40am: calls me to tell me they're just reading my notes now, and to expect the actual call in ~20 more minutes

dwp calls at 12. it lasts two hours. midway through she had to stop quickly to tell her manager the next persons appointment has to be pushed back.

two. bloody. hours. and thats after she saw the backlog of letters and forms and other assessments ive done before

dont you just love being disabled sometimes 🙂🙃

#and yet magically everyone on benefits is abusing them and getting them without needing them /s #its So Easy to get benefits! *when you don't actually have any idea whatsoever the hoops you have to jump through* #but anyway the assessor i had was actually nice. nearly a nonexistent trait for the dwp #she even mentioned knowing someone whose dealing with the gic #so actually had Some Real Knowledge about being trans and dealing with that system #now just to find out if the people with the real power have any humanity whatsoever #benefits #uk benefits #dwp #department for work and pensions #disabled #disability

[easterneyenews]

#benefits fraudster #repayment order #£2m repayment #Ali Bana Mohamed #scam #taxpayers #Pramod Thomas #news #convicted fraudster #Department for Work and Pensions #DWP #repayment #3-month deadline #Hulme #Manchester #2022 jail sentence #decade-long scam #public money #200 children #bogus claims #stolen identities #fake birth certificates #HMRC #Operation Paratrooper #six accomplices #fraudulent activity #investigation #Manchester properties #fast-food shop #cafe

[18thcenturythirsttrap]

This is the wonderful 'life on benefits' that disabled and sick people endure. This is what Tories and Labour both stigmatise us for. This is what, too often, kills us.

And they don't care.

#tw mental illness #tw overdose #tw dwp #department for work and pensions #welfare #benefits #universal credit #conservatives #labour #uk politics

[insidecroydon]

High Court ruling is a huge stride for fairer treatment by DWP

Failed in their duty: the DWP failed to provide a blind man with accessible information A Croydon man has won his High Court case against the Department for Work and Pensions which asserted that they failed to provide blind people with accessible communications about their benefits – the Government department sending him more than 20 hard-copy letters that were either delayed or simply…

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#Department for Work and Pensions #Dr Yusuf Ali Osman #DWP #Kate Egerton #Leigh Day #Mel Stride MP #RNIB