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If you claim any benefit now. Given the current political climate where the government maybe more receptive to the issues you face. It is a good idea to remind your MP of the issues you face living with HIV. If you don't claim any benefits at the present time. What is being allowed to happen today. May affect you in the future should you find yourself in the situation where you need to claim for benefits. Either way, please write to your local MP if only to raise the issues facing all of us who live with this illness. Problems with benefits, loss of the 10p starting rate of tax or any issues you face trying to maintain full time employment. You can find your MP by clicking here. This web site will also tell you how your MP votes on certain issues. It maybe of interest for when you next vote. all day
Picked up from the Benefits & Work website forums I thought is was worth highlighting this article - "Is Labour abolishing illness"- from The New Statesman for all visitors here to read. Written by "Alison Ravetz is a professor emeritus of Leeds Metropolitan University who writes on housing policy and welfare reform" The article can be found at http://www.newstatesman.com/200805010024 | 6
Start: 06/05/2008 11:26
We have updated the letter you can send your MP - click here. Even if you have written before please continue to raise this issue, especially relevant in the current climate. You can find your MP by typing your post code in to this website. all day
The blog at http://hivdlareview.blogspot.com has served us well however rather than update in two sites I will only be posting in this blog on this site from now on. Thanks John. all day
Please don't worry unduly about this. I want to know if anyone has had their HIV disclosed to their GP by the DWP where they have not informed the GP in the first instance? The DWP are supposed to go to your HIV consultant but we have seen cases where they are "feed up" of waiting for the medical report to seek on from your GP. I just want to gauge if anyone has suffered in this way as it would be a major issue. NO ONE HAS REPORTED THIS AS HAPPENING - I AM JUST ASKING A QUESTION - PLEASE DO NOT PANIC. Thanks, | 7
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From Feedback South London & Health First. Hepatitis C Ethnic Awareness Workshops in London & Bradford. Web address for info : http://hepccentre.org.uk/ethnic/ethnicflyer.html all day
From the NAM website click here for the full article "Concerns over confidentiality, drug interactions, communication, barriers to integrating GP's into HIV Care" BHIVA If you don't already, you can subscribe to NAM updates here all day
ThCell is not responsible for the content of external websites. Navigation and use of information on external websites is at the users own risk. ThCell is a wholly independent organisation. You should not consider any externally linked organisation or website as endorsed or recommended by ThCell. Links are provided, in good faith, to information you may find useful. http://www.directenquiries.com is a website from The Nationwide Access Register in partnership with RADAR, to cover accessible businesses. 10 Downing Street Petition on the DLA review can be found at http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/DLA-Review. It's closed now. . A forum by the author of the petition can be found by clicking here. The Disability Living Allowance Advisory Board, http://www.dlaab.org.uk/index.asp, is a non-departmental public body. Advising the Secretary of State for the Department for Work & Pensions. The "Special Rules" review is based on their report. The report can be found here. UK Government Disabled Website is http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/DisabledPeople/index.htm
The Department for Work & Pensions (DWP) has various webpages covering benefit issues. The service you need is the Pension, Disability and Carers Service, launched on the 1st April 2008. If you want to keep up to date on News from the Disability and Carers Service you can do so by clicking here. DWP & medical guidance. The DWP has guidance for HIV/AIDS on its own website - http://www.dwp.gov.uk/medical/med_conditions/hiv-aids/.
This covers to whom the should request medical reports from as well as the most disabling conditions. You should read the whole section as it is useful. There is an All-Party Parliamentary Groups on HIV/AIDS. Click here for the current list of Ministers at the Department for Work and Pensions.
The Work and Pensions Select committee scruitinises the DWP.
The DWP Disability & Carers Service (DCS) is found at http://www.dwp.gov.uk/lifeevent/benefits/dcs/.
The list of member groups to the DCS can be found at http://www.dwp.gov.uk/lifeevent/benefits/dcs/member_groups.asp. Details on the "Special Rules" exercise can be found at http://www.dwp.gov.uk/lifeevent/benefits/dcs/news.asp. Direct payments.
"Direct payments are cash payments made to individuals who have been assessed as needing services, in lieu of social service provisions." You can find more on this on the Department of Health website. Don't know who your Member of Parliament (MP) is. Find out at http://theyworkforyou.com Add If you need a sample letter to write to your MP click here Local Councils websites can be found by clicking here.
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ThCell is not responsible for the content of external websites. Navigation and use of information on external websites is at the users own risk. ThCell is a wholly independent organisation. You should not consider any externally linked organisation or website as endorsed or recommended by ThCell. Links are provided, in good faith, to information you may find useful. Here are is the legislation links and relevant law links. Click on the relevant legislation to navigate. Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 - new structure to Tribunal system from 3rd November 2008. Social Security Contributions Act 1992 Chapter 4 amended as/by Welfare Reform & Pensions Act 1999 (c.30) Clause 67 Further changes are due later this year to those on Incapacity Benefit, Jobseekers Allowance & Income Support. They are being replaced by the Employment & Support Allowance. This has been introduced under the Welfare Reform Act 2007 Chapter 5 concerns these changes. Disability Living Allowance is mentioned in Clause 52. The Human Rights Act 1998 can be found at http://www.opsi.gov.uk/ACTS/acts1998/ukpga_19980042_en_1 The Disability Alliance UK. Have case law concerning Attendance & Disability Living Allowance. It is found at http://www.disabilityalliance.org/dlalaw.htm#Introduction. Latest updates are found at http://www.disabilityalliance.org/commtemp.htm Adjudications can be found at http://www.disabilityalliance.org/judge.htm Thompsons Solicitors are a good source for Disabilty Discrimination Act (DDA) Case Law. The Disability Matters Law & Benefit review page is at http://www.weblinksadvertising.co.uk/lawandbenefitreview/index.html If you are currently getting Disability Living Allowance & are having your Incapacity Benefit reviewed read this http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si1995/Uksi_19950311_en_1.htm and see the Benefit Changes coming section. Thanks to the originator of this information. | 8
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Start: 09/05/2008 17:29
Thanks to Dr. Vince Cable MP, Treasury spokesman for the Liberal Democrats, for noting the content of the letter and fact sheet we sent to him. Of interest to me is a comment by Peter Mandelson who can be seen on the BBC News Channel, Hardtalk programme at 11.30pm this evening, Friday 9th May. I think it sums up the "general" feeling that we are all feeling at the moment.
"Asked later in the interview about his criticism of Mr Brown's decision to scrap the 10p tax rate, he said: "I didn't say it was a disaster, I said it was rather a large mistake and there we are, it was a mistake and now they're trying to put it right.
Start: 09/05/2008 19:14
As I have an interest in local politics in my area and spending most of my time at home. I subscribe to local blogs & email lists for politicians at all levels and of all parties. This includes my constituency MP, Greg Hands. The area of Hammersmith and Fulham has a large population of HIV+ people in London, though it is one of the smallest boroughs. I wrote to Mr. Hands about my personal situation, and the wider impact to the HIV+ Community, with regard to the Disability Living Allowance first, via email, back on the 2nd March 2008. I wrote to him at the House of Commons week commencing 15th April 2008 quoting my home address. I received NO reply. Usually I always get some response when I email Mr. Hands. So I wrote to him again this week via the House of Commons. Reminding him I am a constituent and I would appreciate a response. | 10
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I would like to thank the contributor for this email - as requested, confidentiality respected. |
