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Incapacity Benefit-Mental health issues
Does anyone know how people with severe and enduring mental illness are going to be assessed when the govrenment change the rules. this is causing a l | gusmac | 14-Feb-05 01:08 PM
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Commissioner's decision CSIB 547/02
This decision is referred to on page 736 of volume one of "Bonner" Social Security Legislation 2004 (Sweet and Maxwell). I can't find the decision any | Philipb | 11-Feb-05 09:53 AM
by Martin_Williams | 1 | 502 |
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SSP1 and Claiming ICB
Someone who had recently claimed ICB told me that it is no longer possible to claim by completing an SSP1 as the form no longer doubles up as a claim | jimmckenny | 09-Feb-05 10:42 PM
by jj | 22 | 1598 |
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IB & IS scrapped
Just want to make sure I've got this right. It's not just IB that's being scrapped but also IS for people who are incapable of work?
The DWP press | Steve Donnison | 07-Feb-05 02:09 PM
by Steve Donnison | 7 | 1673 |
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IB 'scrapped', and 2 new benefits to be introduced
get ready for .... 'Rehabilitation Support Allowance' and 'Disability and Sickness Allowance' !!!!
see ........
http://w ww.rightsnet.org.uk/ cg | shawn | 03-Feb-05 01:12 PM
by Judy | 16 | 1494 |
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Incapacity Benefit
I’m looking for the information that relates to CIB/14332/96 on Incontinence. any other commissioners decisions on bowel Incontinence and the extrem | Miss E Cook | 03-Feb-05 10:21 AM
by Miss E Cook | 2 | 616 |
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complaint to medical services
If you want to take an issue further than the complaints section at the medical services bit, what do you do? Assume, for the sake of argument, that | Emmab | 03-Feb-05 08:25 AM
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Incapacity benefit and foreign nationals
Right, I might be a bit dense on this one, but can foreign nationals who have paid the appropriate amount of NI and are currently receiving SSP claim | ali l | 02-Feb-05 11:42 AM
by ken | 5 | 580 |
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GETTING INCAP CLAIMANTS BACK TO WORK .....
As part of a discussion on Radio 2 about 45 mins ago, there was a Lady from an organisation called "Tomorrows World" (Honest) which works in Docto | mike shermer | 02-Feb-05 07:19 AM
by mike shermer | 2 | 736 |
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Incap Ben & PCA
I have a client who claimed and started to get Incap ben WEF from 23.1.04, on mainly physical grounds, with just a tad of depression. The PCA beca | mike shermer | 25-Jan-05 12:32 PM | 0 | 708 |
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Affect of Section 117 of Mental Health Act on benefits
We have a service user who has been in a Nursing Home since early 2000.
He is receiving £358.80 every 4 weeks (Incapacity benefit and income suppor | Simon | 19-Jan-05 07:59 AM
by shaun | 1 | 655 |
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help!!! anyone got a copy of CIB/6777/1999 urgently
I had a copy of this yesterday but the faries have had it - funny as I didn't think they were interested in caselaw, only keys and stuff! I'm about to | ruth c | 14-Jan-05 03:54 PM
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Incapacity In Youth in Foster Care
Can anyone help? Having difficulty finding the answer. 17 year old on LRC DLA on supported learning course at college in foster care. Could she cla | LA | 14-Jan-05 09:59 AM
by BrianSmith | 5 | 601 |
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Alcohol, Drug Misuse and the PCA
I am currently trying to write a Personal Capability Assessment training course. I am specifically looking for information on alcohol and drug misuse | Sam Warburton | 11-Jan-05 03:18 PM | 0 | 557 |
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Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Have just completed successful IB Appeal in which the customer strongly asserted that the PCA does not in any way adequately accomodate such illnesses | whitegates | 11-Jan-05 12:55 PM
by Euan_Henderson | 6 | 1580 |
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meeting prescription costs for asylum seekers
not strictly an incapacity related topic, but my psychiatrist is in a dilemma about how to continue to ensure patients prescribed anti-psychotic meds | midge | 07-Jan-05 01:04 PM
by midge | 3 | 533 |
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Incapacity Benefit and Pension
Client has just been awarded early retirement occupational pension on ill health grounds, backdated to May. Will this mean he will have been overpaid | ib | 22-Dec-04 01:40 PM
by ib | 6 | 971 |
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Jobcentre Plus staff in GP surgeries???
Just noticed this in the Chancellor's pre-budget report, under the sub heading of Extra Support for GPs in the section "4.28 Increasing Employment Opp | keith | 17-Dec-04 10:56 PM
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personality disorder
is a personality disorder a 'specific mental illness or disablement',
the decision maker is contending that my client has a PO so does not qualify fo | jamantcoo | 14-Dec-04 10:38 AM
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Incapacity Benefit refused to refugee as too few NI contributions?
Hi everyone
I hope someone more knowledgeable about disability benefits than me can shed some light here! I am working with a Romanian family who | LaurenSmith | 13-Dec-04 12:52 PM
by mike shermer | 2 | 637 |
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Industrial diseases - cause and effect
Client suffers from 'fibrosing alveolites'. It is a progressive lung disease, causing severe shortage of breath etc He has worked in several different | vn | 13-Dec-04 08:38 AM
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permitted work and averaging earnings
Can anyone tell me if you can use the normal averaging earnings rules with permitted work or is the £78 an absolute weekly limit? I can't find anythin | Daphne | 09-Dec-04 05:07 PM
by paul_moorhouse | 3 | 618 |
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IB 50's ... make them stop
Is it just me or does it seem like every IB claimant in edinburgh has been sent an IB50? | jimt | 07-Dec-04 02:55 PM | 0 | 706 |
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IB National Insurance Credits
Help! I have a client who has been in receipt of IB since Jan 95. Unfortunately, his claim has been randomly selected for an internal audit check.
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Commissioners Decisions
Hi, can anyone assist in directing me to where I may find the following dcisions regarding "manual dexterity" R(IB)1/98, CIB 13161/96 and CIB 13508/96 | Kev@Derbys | 30-Nov-04 10:59 AM
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CIB/1005/2004
Morning all!!
If anybody has the text of this decision, or CSIB/38/96, I'd be grateful. It concerns the incontinence descriptor and 'voluntary con | tonibee | 29-Nov-04 01:20 PM
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DWP 'secret' project!
Anyone heard of the Engaging Physicians, Benefiting Patients Project? Thought not! We stumbled upon this by accident a couple of weeks ago when trying | keith | 22-Nov-04 12:53 PM
by shawn | 3 | 947 |
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IB appeal and later IB claim - revision?
If a client is awarded IB at appeal but has also put in a later IB claim following the appeal being lodged, what happens to that later claim? If clien | jo gallagher | 18-Nov-04 08:19 AM
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lifting and carrying and howker
I argued in my submission to the tribunal that now the 'lifting and carrying' has gone back to pre 6/1/97 definition my client scores 8 points because | jamantcoo | 16-Nov-04 12:56 PM
by jamantcoo | 2 | 742 |
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Incapacity Benefit Question/Help?
I have a client who has been on long term sick for 8 months. She had basic sick pay for the first 28 weeks. Now it seems she has to live on fresh ai | jboy1 | 16-Nov-04 08:02 AM
by Damian Walsh | 2 | 757 |
Incapacity related benefits
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