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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 | 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. |
