I haven’t blogged in a while, though I’ve been meaning to. I’ve been meaning to write about the unexpected expenditures that make a big...

I had a PIP appeal today. I’ve been waiting for it for ten months. I don’t think it went well. There are some points in my favour: the...

Some moments of sick apprehension today. I remembered, some time after the appointment time, that today was the day for my monthly UC...

I’ve received some good news. My UC journal today had an letter added to it saying that they have decided that I have limited capability...

DWP-UC has apparently now told DWP-ESA to stop paying me. I have received, in three separate envelopes that arrived on the same day, a...

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...

Having phoned ESA a couple of days ago, today I phoned UC to tell them that ESA had told me that they needed to send a form to ESA to say...

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...

Applying for council tax support is nearly as much hassle as Universal Credit. They too want my most recent bank statements, and they...

Yesterday I had three (!) JobCentre meetings. • One to show my housing details – the one that in my last blog I’d had to ask my housing...

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...

I got a brown envelope today, except it was white. The ‘Personal Independence Payment’ just showing in the address window gave the game...

I’m exhausted. I’m exhausted by six years of chronic illness and seven years of Tory rule. It seems like every time I go on Twitter – and...

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...

Just as nature takes millions of years to regain diversity after a mass extinction, so neighbourhoods take years, even decades, to build...

A new disability benefit should reflect the policy intent that the important factor is not the medical condition but the effect that it...

George Osborne has decided that benefits will be up-rated at 1% for the next three years.  Previously, they would have been uprated in...