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COVID-19: disability benefit phone assessments to continue?

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We’re sharing the 17 June update from our friends at Benefits and Work welfare rights site.  Opinions are by Benefits and Work, we’ve added comments below. “MINISTER REFUSES TO CONFIRM FACE-TO-FACE ASSESSMENT BAN WILL CONTINUE” Mystery surrounds how long telephone assessments for PIP and ESA are to continue after a government minister refused to give … Read more

I won 10 years’ PIP with M.E.

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Pamela* in Yorkshire writes: I’d really like my PIP story to be included on your website. Things are just so dire with benefits and I want to share my experience to try and help others as much as possible and publicize the ME Association meeting with the government minister.  I read the PIP stories on your website … Read more

Atos PIP trials — my story

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“I am a 53 year old woman who suffers from PTSD, severe anxiety, depression, panic attacks and insomnia.  I also have problems with my eyesight and previously had cancer (my PTSD stems from the cancer and its treatment). I am on ESA ( Support Group) and currently still in receipt of DLA. I am in … Read more

Benefit exam exemptions — guidance for GPs & others

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Read our leaflets with guidance for professionals on the rules you can quote in letters and reports, for your patient or client to be exempted from the face-to-face exams: ESA or Universal Credit — read or download and print here Based on the regulations built into ESA/Universal Credit on “substantial risk to health” — mental … Read more