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Just had a phone call. Someone claiming to be from the Jobcentre. They said I may be entitled to more JSA because I've just been awarded a new benefit. (Later mentioned PIP, which I did apply for months ago. I only just had a phone assesment exactly 2 weeks ago. Not heard anything else.) Asked a...

The Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) has offered to restore the full benefits of a claimant whom it called a “lying bitch” in legal papers after she appealed against a decision to strip her of some of her disability entitlements. The DWP has apologised to the woman and, following outrage...

I can't find any recent threads about having to apply for PIP, so I'm starting a new one. Basically, the DLA claim form wasn't all that good but it did assess a few other things besides your ability to sit down, stand up and walk 20 metres. How can an assessment based on a very narrow spectrum...

EXCLUSIVE Details around practices’ issuing of Med3 statements for patients are to be extracted by the Government in a move described by GP leaders as amounting to ’state snooping’, Pulse has learnt. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) will extract information from GP records, including...

Disability benefit assessments have doubled in cost to £579m a year but targets are still being missed, the National Audit Office has said. The spending watchdog found the quality of the tests was also not improving despite more being done face-to-face. Labour MP Meg Hillier, who chairs the...

A woman who suffered from a debilitating lung condition was sent a letter informing her she no longer qualified for sickness benefits on the day she died. Dawn Amos, 67, from Essex, died in November after suffering chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), which left her struggling to...