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...

The Office for Budget Responsibility has recently reported that spending on PIP, the Tory’s new extra-costs disability, was 20% higher...

I wanted to find data on the consequences of Conservative cuts since 2010, in the hope that I might remember some of them to use in...

I logged in to my UC journal today to see where DWP-UC is up to with paying me the right amount of money. They’ve made one correction –...

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...

I’ve just tried phoning my council to explain to them that I don’t understand how my council tax support is calculated, would like to...

Naturally, when I’ve just got in from visiting my church’s office to ask for help because I can’t manage without paying someone to do...

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...

Phoning ESA again. It has a long spiel followed by ‘please press 1 to continue’. Why not just carry on without having to press 1? After...

I started my claim for UC on 16th July. I told ESA on the same day, or possibly a day or two before, that I had moved house, no longer...

I’ve received from Universal Credit a form that I am supposed to complete and send to my mortgage lender so that I can get a Support for...

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...

I didn’t know when I applied for Universal Credit that they would require three meetings to be arranged within that week, let alone why....

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...