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Medical Evidence
I have an Incapacity Benefit appeal coming up in the next few weeks. Despite repeatedly requesting (4 times) a medical report from client's GP, he has | bwalsh | 15-Nov-04 01:52 PM
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Severe Disablement Allowance
My Client's SDA has recently stopped because the DWP have in my view been ineffecient in organizing a new medical assessment. She has lost £90 per wee | jima | 12-Nov-04 06:09 PM
by jj | 6 | 675 |
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Incapacity assessment and appeals
I'm not sure if these issues were brought up before but I would like to find out what happens in other areas and what your opinions are on the follow | gerdarhondda | 12-Nov-04 04:56 PM | 0 | 703 |
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ankolysing spondylitis - exempt from PCA?
answers on a postcard to....
have an ICB appeal pending for client with above condition, scored 0pts on latesst PCA, previous 23pts in 2002
rang | jason | 12-Nov-04 03:21 PM
by jason | 2 | 875 |
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IB permitted work - changing jobs
Client was doing permitted work higher limit as agreed with DEA since March 2004 working for a relative, as work had dried up he started doing similar | SHATA | 12-Nov-04 02:35 PM | 0 | 431 |
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Anti test case rule and sitting descriptor
I have an Incap. appeal coming up in which the sitting descriptor is key. My client should be helped by CIB/1239/2004 (which is the one that confirme | sara lewis | 12-Nov-04 11:50 AM
by Andrew_Fisher | 2 | 659 |
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Supported Permitted Work
We are starting to have problems in our area re people who are trying to 'migrate' from therapeutic work/higher permitted work (without the support of | franrobinson | 09-Nov-04 12:24 PM
by franrobinson | 5 | 1093 |
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Long term incapacity benefit
Person age 58, was admitted to hospital in June and a medical certificate covered period in hospital, then another doctor stated that client was to r | Simon | 08-Nov-04 12:35 PM
by mike shermer | 2 | 990 |
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2p for your ICB
I read somewhere, think Benefits and Work, about the 21/2 centimetre coin or less argument-that is picking up a coin doesn't fail the test because the | Semitone | 02-Nov-04 03:36 PM | 0 | 538 |
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Med 5 Backdated Sick Line
I have a client who was I receipt of Incapacity credits. He failed the P.C.A. assessment and entitlement was removed from March 2003. In Jan 2004 a Tr | SarahJane | 02-Nov-04 10:20 AM
by JonL | 1 | 764 |
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IB and drug and alcohol rehabilitation
We had a small victory recently which might benefit others.
There are a couple of residential units in Hull where people stay for a couple of year | Ian_Miller | 01-Nov-04 12:23 PM
by Ian_Miller | 2 | 629 |
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request from the guardian ...
Colin Cottell has contacted us to say -
'I am writing a piece for the Jobs & Money section of the Guardian, which appears on Saturdays | shawn | 01-Nov-04 06:55 AM
by JudyScott | 2 | 678 |
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Pathways to Work pilots
I'd be interested in having feedback - informal or formal and on the record or off the record, about the impact that the Pathways to Work pilots are r | Neil Bateman | 25-Oct-04 08:59 AM | 0 | 479 |
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Severe Mental illness
I am currently doing a ICB appeal and will be argueing client satisfies the exemption criteria laid down by Reg 10(viii) Severe Mental Illness, as def | northwiltshire | 19-Oct-04 02:01 PM
by Semitone | 7 | 1246 |
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Incapacity Benefit
We have a client who has, with breaks, been in receipt of Incapacity Benefit for some time. He was sentenced to 5 years in prison (served the full se | CVH | 15-Oct-04 02:48 PM
by stainsby | 1 | 682 |
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SSP complicated enquiry
HELP! Have a client who was made redundant in April 2004. Since then she has temp'd thru agencies, but maintained a 2nd job of 6 hours a week (super | wwwcab | 14-Oct-04 09:01 AM
by sara lewis | 1 | 579 |
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Time Limit for using medical report
My colleague can remember reading somewhere that the DWP can not rely on a medical report that is 3 months old to make a decision on a PCA. The decisi | jeanette | 08-Oct-04 08:26 AM
by david fernie | 1 | 679 |
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Youth Rules
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I have asked for help with this case before and thanks to help given to me here I thought I had it all sorted out. If you will bear with me I w | Amanda | 06-Oct-04 11:14 PM
by Amanda | 3 | 569 |
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Incapacity Benefit / SSP at the same time....
This isn't my area of knowledge, so any help gratefully received.
Simple question:
Are there circumstances where Incap can be (lawfully) payable | Kevin D | 06-Oct-04 10:05 PM
by Margie | 1 | 557 |
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Medical Assessors & Mental Ill Health
It's Friday afternoon and Im seething at a PCA outcome.
I am not au fait with the training given to GP's to make them "Medical Assessors" but at th | Margie | 04-Oct-04 08:54 AM
by suewelsh | 9 | 1593 |
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ICB Medical Assessments
Does anyone know if there are any regulations allowing ICB medicals to be carried out at a claimants' home? Just won a tribunal where client (who suff | PaulW | 23-Sep-04 11:54 AM
by northwiltshire | 5 | 1029 |
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Permitted work - earnings
I have a client on long term incapacity benefit who has been offered a job which she wanted to accept (under supported permitted work rules). Her star | suelees | 23-Sep-04 09:58 AM
by shawn | 10 | 1352 |
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INCAP BENEFIT & TAX
I have a client who has an award letter for Incap for £100.75pw, which includes a dependents allowance. He is also in reciept of Income Support fo | mike shermer | 16-Sep-04 03:15 PM
by Jon_Blackwell | 4 | 750 |
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PCA & Reaching
I have an appeal this afternoon and I'm a bit confused about how this descriptor applies. My client has an affected right arm and can't raise this abo | Semitone | 09-Sep-04 10:41 AM | 0 | 612 |
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Engaging Physicians, Benefiting Patients – What was it all about?
came across this recently .... its a DWP pack they used in a series of presentations headed 'Engaging Physicians, Benefiting
Patients ' ...
... th | shawn | 08-Sep-04 01:56 PM
by gerdarhondda | 1 | 882 |
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Permitted work/lower limit
I have a tribunal with a client who believed she was working under the permitted work lower limit rules and was earning £20.25, obviously 25p over. Ar | JohnOrr | 01-Sep-04 10:42 AM | 0 | 520 |
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Personal capability assessment (exemptions)
Paragraph 27 of CIB/3511/00 states ",,,an AWT should not be carried out before an opinion is obtained on regulation 10 exception,,,". I would be grate | Alan Hind | 20-Aug-04 11:16 AM | 0 | 768 |
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new post - howker guidance .......
the dwp has published new post howker guidance .... specifically relates to jacobs decision in CIB/0884/2003 and activity 14 - 'Remaining conscious ot | shawn | 20-Aug-04 07:47 AM
by erika | 5 | 1152 |
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Incapacity Benefit Claimants in Cornwall
We are seeking, in conjunction with academic partners, to put together a bid under Phase 2 of Jobcentre Plus ESF Objective 1 Co-financing in Cornwal | CSEPLimited | 13-Aug-04 04:53 PM | 0 | 509 |
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Reinstating Incapacity Benefit payments regarding a claim in suspended animation
Basically client had been receiving payments of IB until spring 2001, then does n't pick up new benefit book from post office, so book eventually book | andy pennington | 09-Aug-04 11:05 AM | 0 | 592 |
Incapacity related benefits
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