Discrimination - No housing benefits for SDP recipients !!
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Don't throw the towel in. Never.
Mike [removed by moderator] is trying to tell us not to trust Facebook .I don't trust Facebook
anyway.
Apollo 141mp I'm sharing the same distress as you as a disabled person and it is
utterly disgraceful how you and I lost Housing Benefit based on the poverty levels
we already are on.
Thanks for pointing out how important January 16th 2019 really is.
This gateway condition should go a long way to help us.
Just found a leaked document quoting DWP Point116 (Regulation3 in which it
clearly states that new claims to other benefits including Housing Benefit will be allowed ) -
To all readers.
With reference Apollo141 mp 's comments and indeed Mike Hughes ,why
haven't the local councils been advised on whether or not Disabled people
will be able to claim Housing Benefit when the new Gateway conditions
kick in ,in January.2019 ?
Is it DWP that advises the councils ? or another government body?
I take your point Mike that Labour did introduce WCA assessments but I also
feel that when professional people like Doctors and Specialists say someone is
not fit for work then any government including this one should respect the professionals and not pressurise disabled people into work.
Iain Duncan Smith was paid a massive amount of money to talk about compassion at a conference in Canada a while back. What an absolute joke.
He has driven more people into poverty than ever known I think. Its a complete
disgrace.
When someone has an incurable illness I cannot understand why the government feels it must retest them every few months. -
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Hi all readers and Apollo141mp.
A leaked document is circulating from DWP which says and I quote that when the new gateway condition concerning SDP claimants kicks in ,in January then it says
we will qualify for extra benefits.I'm presuming Housing Benefit.
In reality when this new Gateway condition does come into effect ,it says SDP
claimants will not be allowed to join Universal Credit until Transitional protection
is in place from July 2019 onwards so I feel being stuck on legacy benefits
local councils will be informed by DWP that Housing Benefit applications will have to be awarded and might even be backdated.
Please,anyone out there ,give me opinion on this subject -
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Apollo141mp Thanks for wishing me good luck. Same to you.
Ive got to agree with you ,councils are keeping us in the dark and all this about not allowing us Housing Benefit has just got to be unlawful somehow especially as
anyone on very low incomes even from benefits should qualify for Housing
Benefit.
My own local council tried to force me on Universal Credit but I have my own mind
I said," No" because of the threat of losing my SDP but when we will not be allowed to go over to Universal Credit in January it will open a whole new ball game,so to speak -
apollo14lmp said:
For all that I say I don't believe that welfare should be a free for all. I am not opposed to scrutiny. I have been told not my own experience that DLA you did not always have to produce medical evidence at all. Labour used DLA to cut unemployment numbers ?? don't know - what I was told. So I think there has to be a system based on fairness and evaluation. Producing your medical evidence once every few years is acceptable I suppose being hounded and using the system of Atos WCA lies is all wrong as is harassing sick people !
The WCA has been used to brutalise people by the tories they used the WCA system to create PIP I think. But I think the Tories underestimated the true number of people who are ill. They thought many were faking it and now use the system to abuse people .. me - 8 WCA 1 DLA and 4 PIP one paper based what a load of rubbish - harassment even. No tories to blame for this system and the way iy treats people sooner they gone / split the better - damn them all .. Even proved one Atos "HCP was a liar funny that was... they are out of control should know better hope they get caught out and struck off … I would be delighted to get one struck off I would have a party … see them with no job money justice that would be
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