Meeting with MP

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I have been invited to meet on friday with our new (and keen) labour MP to discuss benefit issues,it would help if anyone has any general issues that i might raise(obviously not specific cases).

If you have just add to this thread and i will have a read before the meeting.

I hope the board guides will see fit to leave this on here and not move to DT where it will be swamped with judgements not ideas,although i understand that i`m not asking a specific question here but hope some will be put forward that i might not have thought of.

regards
John

MissMoneypenny

woodbine wrote: »

I have been invited to meet on friday with our new (and keen) labour MP to discuss benefit issues,it would help if anyone has any general issues that i might raise(obviously not specific cases).

Would you ask him why his party got this country in so much debt, as we are now all suffering because of it.

dmg24

MissMoneypenny wrote: »

Would you ask him why his party got this country in so much debt, as we are now all suffering because of it.

I imagine John is looking to have a constructive meeting, rather than dwelling in the past.

cit_k

Why the software (LIMA) is not available for inspection, to anyone (not even MP's, solicitors, doctors, members of the publics, even lords or ladies etc).

Dont take any garbage about it only running on special atos computers..

They will try to say commercial interests may be damaged - but you can state that surely the right to a fair assessment for teh sick and disabled should be much higher than any 'profit' the dwp makes?

Nexy point - why is the terms of payments etc not supplied when people get a copy of the ATOS contract?
Why is it even missing from the copy in the govermnent (commons or lords cant recall) library? So its even hidden from MPs?

Ask your MP to try to get a copy of the software if he or she does not believe they will be denied the right to verify the sick and disabled are getting a fair assessment....

Ask your MP to try to view the *entire* atos contract - to verfiy there is nothing underhand going on.....

Ask your MP why people cannot record assessments unless they comply with rules stricter than even the police have to adhere to when interviewing murderers...

Ask your MP why the government is calling people on benefits scroungers.... and if they will speak up against it.

Ask your MP why the chanceller lied about the scale of benefit fraud in the spending review speech, and if he will call for a retraction and apology.

Ask you MP why the ESA pilot is being done, BEFORE the results of prof harringtons review?

Ask your MP why the ESA pilot is being done, without using the proposed descriptors (and no doubt more up to date software) that will be used in the national rollout, therefore invalidating the usefullness of any data obtained in the pilot?

Ask your MP why the government plans to fine claimaints 50 pound if a mistake is made on forms etc, yet the DWP mistakes come to more than all benefit fraud - and there are no plans to fine the DWP for mistakes?

Ask your MP why the DWP is not listening to complaints from the tribunal service, in fact in the latest report from the president of the tribunal service, they said they were giving up complaining as until the DWP started to listen!!

Ask your MP why the police are not investigating ATOS, and if he would be willing to arrange this? (police to help claimaints covertly record, or go as undercover witnessess etc).

Im sure I can think of more that was of the top of my head.

sunnyone

Why are very ill people being kicked off ESA because the WCA dosnt take account of major illnesses like organ failure (stage 4 kidney failure in my husbands case but he initially failed the WCA and kidney failure isnt his only illness)

viktory

Why, oh why, can I not get more money? I have paid into the pot for years and years, yet get hardly anything back. I would like a holiday please, I deserve one, and a new TV oh and I must have a new computer to do job searches on!!

*All very tongue in cheek, of course*

pwales_2

can u ask y people in care home who use there mobility element to pay for expensive wheelchairs are having there dla stoppped?

y carerers are being forced to work 24 hrs(loosing carers allowence) but single mums stay at 16 hrs (wtc reasons)

y when i asked for retraining i was told sorry we dont pay for that(so how am i ever going to get back to any kind of work!)

and y r the disabled being blamed for the county being in so much debt !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

cit_k

Ask him to ask in parliament what Danny alexander thinks about ESA now, considering his previous stance on the documentary whose cheating who - and why he is suddenly silent, even supporting esa.

I would love to have him questioned on that matter...

bertiebat

Ask if he realises compensation claims against the NHS will rise because of the 1 year contribution based ESA restriction. Previously compensation awards would have been offset against incapacity benefit/ESA and therefore for some (including me) they could have chosen to accept incapacity benefits as a form of compensatory pension instead of costing the state needless legal costs.

Ask if there is going to be any transitional provision for who people initially only qualify for the contribution based ESA WRAG for the 1 year but with incurable conditions that will at some point qualify for the support group. Will there be any leeway to reapply within a defined period (I think there used to be some sort of linking rules provision but I've heard these may have been removed and this scenario is different anyway).

Thanks for this woodbine, nice to think someone might listen.

sunnyone

Ask what is going to happen to IVB/SDA claimants and will they still have the same transitional protection that they have had since 1995 with the transfer to ESA (if thats what they say is going to happen, the goverment say that they havnt decided what to do with these claimants up to now)

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I`m making notes,will read tomorow for any more ideas