Anyone else worried about the ESA time limit changes?

heater

The Work and Pensions Committee Select Committee is leading an Inquiry into Migration from Incapacity Benefits to Employment and Support Allowance.

Please go to the parliament uk website or google the above. (as a new user I cannot post links, sorry)

Submissions of not more than 3,000 words are invited from interested
organisations and individuals.

Please note that the deadline for written evidence is 14 April 2011.

heater

There is still a chance of getting the new work capability assessment cancelled. Labour have tabled an EDM for the new WCA to be cancelled saying that the recommendations in the Harrington report should be implemented before further changes to ESA.
Please google “LAST CHANCE TO STOP THE ESA TEST” to contact your MP urgently and ask them to support EDM 1651.

heater

Please google "the hardest hit" (as a new user I am unable to post links, which is so annoying)


Write or email your MP!


Protest online!


March for May 11th

Culex

sweetersong wrote: »

Plus the descriptors are changing come March next year.

You can get it without meeting the descriptors if they agree that if they did not assess you as incapable for work related activity, it would seriously cause your health to deterioate, but its how you prove that, which is the issue

Perhaps it might help to support one's claim if one arrived half dead, or one died during the assessment.

Culex

heater wrote: »

Please google "the hardest hit" (as a new user I am unable to post links, which is so annoying)

March for May 11th

There are two links:

1. United Kingdom Disabled Peoples' Council
2. a protest blog

melbury

I think it is fair enough that people who are currently getting IB should be reassessed for ESA, as of course anyone who has fallen sick in the past couple of years has had to go through the far more stringent ESA/ATOS process.

I totally disagree with the 12 month time limit on contribution based
ESA, that is just plain unfair.

heater

Still Time to Oppose Time-limiting ESA!
Please see http://thebrokenofbritain.blogspot.com/2011/05/time-limiting-esa-breezes-through.html

Richie-from-the-Boro

heater wrote: »

Please google "the hardest hit" (as a new user I am unable to post links, which is so annoying)


Write or email your MP!


Protest online!


March for May 11th

- say hello to someone 9 more times

daska

melbury wrote: »

I totally disagree with the 12 month time limit on contribution based ESA, that is just plain unfair.

People whose income qualifies them for income related ESA but who qualify on basis of contributions automatically get put on contribution based ESA.

People on contribution based ESA get less money and fewer benefits than those on Income Related ESA.

I humbly suggest that 12 months is probably sufficient for most people to sort their affairs out so that they can manage on the lower income.

sunnyone

daska wrote: »

People whose income qualifies them for income related ESA but who qualify on basis of contributions automatically get put on contribution based ESA.

People on contribution based ESA get less money and fewer benefits than those on Income Related ESA.

I humbly suggest that 12 months is probably sufficient for most people to sort their affairs out so that they can manage on the lower income.

Said as someone on means tested benefits