My telephone appointment last week went fine. All the Work Coach wanted was to ask if I had received, completed and sent off the form for...

Phoning ESA again. It has a long spiel followed by ‘please press 1 to continue’. Why not just carry on without having to press 1? After...

I started my claim for UC on 16th July. I told ESA on the same day, or possibly a day or two before, that I had moved house, no longer...

After getting a letter from ESA last week, this week I logged on to my UC journal and found that I had – at last – got an award...

A couple of days ago I saw this tweet on Twitter: “Work as a health outcome is a fundamental principle for us. There must be a shared...

The government still doesn’t know what its talking about. But this time it’s almost seven years on from when it gained power, and its...

On Thursday the DWP announced that Atos is withdrawing from its contract to run Work Capability Assessments, the controversial assessment...

The government has been carrying out a study of suitable descriptors to use for assessments for ESA. The results were supposed to be...

We cannot afford to base policy on public opinion when the public opinion is based on false information. ESA is a good example of this....

When it’s their word against yours, medical evidence is what proves you’re not the one lying. Medical evidence is what says that you are...

I received a request to write about the 878 300 people who drop their ESA claims early.  The government’s line – repeated several times –...

“84% of GPs say they have patients who have presented with mental health problems such as stress, anxiety or depression as a result of...

The government has plans to further sanction long-term sick or disabled people if they deem these people to not be working hard enough. ...

A few days ago James Max wrote an article about Atos and the Paralympics.  Many disabled people and their supporters have been upset by...

Last night Panorama (BBC2) and Dispatches (Channel 4) featured documentaries on the Work Capability Assessment (WCA), part of the process...