Abbreviations - help!

auntyS

I am currently in the process of changing from IB to ESA and have found lots of interesting (if somewhat belated for me) advice but I am struggling with the abbreviations used in a lot of posts.

Would it be possible for someone to list them as a point of reference. I understand the ESA, WRAG and SG references but have seen CPN and others which I can't work out.

Why is it all so complicated? :huh:

lukieboy96

CPN is a Community Psychiatric Nurse

Richie-from-the-Boro

LEL Lower Earnings Limit
LETS Local Exchange Trading System
LPP Lone Parent Premium
LPRO Lone Parent run-on
LQPM Legally Qualified Panel Member
LRP Liable Relative Payment
LSC Learning and Skills Council
LT Linking Term
LTACP Living Together as Civil Partners
LTAHAW Living Together as Husband And Wife
MA Maternity Allowance
MAP Maternity Allowance Period
MB Maternity Benefit
MG Maternity Grant
MID Mortgage Interest Direct
MIRO Mortgage Interest run-on
MP Member of Parliament
MPP Maternity Pay Period
MSC Maximum Savings Credit
MSP Member of the Scottish Parliament
MWA Mandatory Work Activity scheme scheme
NASS National Asylum Support Service
NCET National Council for Education and Training
NCIP Non-Contributory Invalidity Pension
ND New Deal
NDLP New Deal for Lone Parents
NDP New Deal for Partners
NDYP New Deal for Young People
ND18-24 New Deal for 18-24 year olds
ND25+ New Deal for claimants aged 25 years and over
NHS National Health Service
NI National Insurance
NINO National Insurance Number
NMW National Minimum Wage
NRP Non-Resident Parent
NVQ National Vocational Qualification
OOT Own Occupation Test
OPB One Parent Benefit
PA Personal Adviser
PAYE Pay As You Earn
PB and MDB Pneumoconiosis, Byssinosis and Miscellaneous Diseases Benefits scheme

- and hundreds of others are here auntyS
- this is the whole list, all DM's use - best of luck

imho

Thanks Richie as i couldnt make out half of the abbreviations on here either.
Your post should really be a "sticky"

auntyS

Thanks Richie, that is helping me a lot but ermm, what's a DM? Is there an A to L list too?

And I agree with Imho abut the "sticky". I'm sure we are not the only ones who have been puzzled.

kurgon

DM = decision maker i.e. the person at DWP who will read the reports and willy-nilly make an arbitrary decision based on rolling a pencil.....

Richie-from-the-Boro

auntyS wrote: »

Thanks Richie, that is helping me a lot but ermm, what's a DM? Is there an A to L list too?

And I agree with Imho abut the "sticky". I'm sure we are not the only ones who have been puzzled.

AS kurgon has said the individual human being that will eventually make a decision on your personal claim is the Decision Maker, as important is the whole of the government DWP departments, all of them, at all different levels use the same list.

For the A-Z bit, when you click the link it will open a 'portable document format' file, all pdf readers have a quick search button, put the phrase or single word into that search and it will find all phrases or single words you put in.

Best of luck