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    • Standard form being sent to large numbers of claimants. Just answer as the form asks.  No need to  go into any detail, unless the forms asks for specific details of how health impacts on daily activities. If you are worried contact Citizens Advice as they are experts with PIP, as they are trained to understand what evidence is required for assessments.
    • Resume payments with the debt collectors? You say not to pay dca though do you not? 
    • yes they mostly would be enforceable, but that wasnt the point. even if they get a CCJ the very worst they could have done is get a restriction k which is useless to them. doesnt hurt anything. the CCJ would remain on file for 6yrs yes, but then gone same as a DN. the rest k charge does not show at all. and even so, the idea was to get your debts issued a default notice ASAP, them RESUME payments.. the advise is NOT conflicting, just you don't read things properly or understand.  oh well. dx
    • This is the dilemma I had then and still have it. The bit that stopped me was the post 2015 comments about them being enforceable now in most instances which I feel hasn’t been answered unless I am missing something. the bonus I guess is not all credit agreements now will be chasing me so less people chasing me down so to speak. this is the problem as there is conflicting messaging out there it is hard to plan a strategic way forward 
    • In 2017 my wife was given PIP and I finally, officially, became her carer. In 2019 she was reviewed and we were told it would be done by phone to make it easier for her as she has mobility issues and anxiety. The review was very simple, Has anything changed? No, ok, we'll stay as you are then. In 2022 a second review, this time by phone again but with an awkward given at the end for 5 years. Today, we got a new review letter (I know wait lists are bad, but I dont think the wait will take til 2027 for a decision). We're a bit confused because it's a letter, not a phone call as before. The form is just questions that ask "has anything changed" Now, since 2017, nothing has changed except we had our home adapted via disability grant. This was noted in the phone calls. So we should really write that nothing has changed in the last 2 years. The adaptations have been mentioned in both previous phone reviews, but not in writing so I guess we should bring it up. But we feel that they want us to explain everything as if it were a new claim again... And are worried if we miss something in the original claim or the phone calls she will risk losing part of the award (a 2 point swing could be really bad) It does just say "has anything changed?" But in dealing with ESA prior to getting PIP, answering the question asked "has your condition worsened or improved" at a review process with a simple "no, I'm still the same" somehow led to ESA ending and needing appeal. So just want a bit of guidance. How much detail is needed? Is minimal ok? Or should we be blunt with the fact nothing has changed, and bullet point the things she struggles with in each section?   I know the obvious thing is to just explain it all,but over 10 years the sheer amount of times the poor woman has had ESA or PIP stopped/refused just because something was missed out in their report, or they felt it meant a new claim should be made, or that they judged her healthy because we missed a tiny thing in our forms. During COVID it finally seemed like it was all just going to be smooth, especially with the phone reviews and the 5 year reward, but here we are. We just want to make sure we have the least chance to trip ourselves up, but making sure we have what is expected if you get me? I wish I still had a copy of the forms from 2017, because I could just verbatim copy them and add in about the adaptation, but (ironically) we lost our photocopies we kept of them when the house was being adapted
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Rwanda:

‘one ambitious Tory MP’ who had reservations about the scheme when Boris Johnson first proposed it. ‘He agreed with Labour that it wouldn’t work, that it was a waste of money, it was the latest in a long line of gimmicks.

Does the Prime Minister know what happened to that MP?’

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UK National Debt has massively increased since 2010. Given that foreign debt owners and future foreign debt owners will be calling the shots, does this not make UK Government's weaker and undermine Brexit sovereignty argument?

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Fujitsu’s chief lobbyist during the fallout from the Horizon scandal is also co-founder of a right-wing pressure group of Tory MPs, i can reveal. The extent of the tech firm’s close ties to the Conservative Party raise further questions over its success at winning government contracts while the sub-postmaster convictions fallout has unfolded.

 

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and

HMRC has not charged a single company over tax evasion under landmark legislation

 

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Gordon Brown has been talking about how even working families on benefits can't make ends meet.

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They are unlikely to vote tory - so almost certainly will be the source of funds for tax cuts rather than beneficiaries.

In any case what difference would a temporary tuppunce in the pound make, and in the giving trashing the UK economy more than 2p in the pound? - Its just a pre-GE salve - hoping the stupid will vote Tory before they realise it made them even worse off in even the short term.

- let alone that the 'Torys have already taken 5x that in freezing tax relief for the poorer?

 

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Mind you, you got to admire their 'fortitude' and 'commitment' to their beliefs ...

ROFL

WAAHHH sniffle sniffle - they sniggered at me so I ran off nanny sob weep

There there little lee, wipe your nose and I'll change your nappy

thank you nanny snuffle sob can i have my dummy?

 

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Ex-Tory deputy chairman Lee Anderson said he was going to vote against the policy but Labour MPs were ‘giggling and laughing and taking the mick’

 

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looks like Mordaunt and jenrick lining up their hats for support of various splits of the whatever it is party

Jenrick presumably aligning himself as more central of the loony right - and of course dead center of the carry on corruption team (IMO)

 

Loads of loons likely to chuck hats in Badenough, braverman, maybe even Truss again

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dont worry - labour should be dealing with it soon instead of the current rabid nutjobs

and the flooding has probably trashed a significant proportion of UKs crops this year - not that there was people to pick them

Labour Party will be needed.

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and if that isnt enough of a reason to vote labour - perhaps this is.

Lets hope sunak doesn't jump on the bandwagon and effectively give them a get out of jail free card while claiming to address it eh?

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So, does anyone know why Sunak let himself become the headstone of the rwanda policy - a policy he correctly defined as never gonna work, a waste of money and just a distraction ... 

I see the wing-nuts are now joining half-way reasonable poop MPs in screaming for Sunak to give money to the councils - after supporting and driving the reduction in funding to councils - apart from rich conservative hamlets .. and in Jenricks case allegedly trying to get rich doner pals off paying 30M plus to local councils

.. Of course if sunak had raised this himself those same 'Tory wing-nuts would be screaming 'woke lefty communism wasting taxpayer money  .. and its just a spoiler opportunity for them ...

 

... so Why the heck isnt he giving them a thorough handbagging .. at the very least? He seems to have NOTHING to lose.

What is his plan?

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Democracy??

Taxpayer funds these fringe group without being asked don't they?

At least the names almost right - poopcon

Sunak should kick them out the ConCon party

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I'm not clear who funds them. Tory donors?

I suppose they're being advised by opaquely funded think tanks in Tufton Street.

Separately, questions are being asked about who funded the survey that David Frost released over the weekend. So many factions in one party...

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But doesn't the UK taxpayer also fund the meetings and expenses of these fringe pressure groups - on top of their normal salaries and expenses which should cover all their actions on behalf of the electorate that voted them in  .

BUT They may claim that turning the UK population into indentured slaves is acting in the populations interests .. but .. few doubt these are personal ambitions and actions - they should pay themselves

 

in the meantime - Certain GBnews presenters have suggested some criticism of the orange-brown lumps actions ..

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just gets dafter and dafter

Rishi Sunak must quit before he leads Tories to extinction,

.. says ex-minister in Liz Truss' shortest lived, yet economy trashing cabinet

.. Just really waiting for the return of Boris The Liar with Truss the Incompetent at his side now at the head of these losers

 

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Get yer expensive handbag out with the gold brick in it richie

 

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So an unelected SPAD is working with 10 (lol - rwanda vote) disenchanted Johnson/Trussites wing-nuts in creating a very specially worded POLL to generate answers that justify the garbage they are trying to promote?

Sound about right?

 

labour landslide sounds about right though - as does utter Tory wipe-out if those dozen nuts get their way.

Conservative (lol - everyones) estimate between 50-150 seat majority for labour

Wing-nut conservative estimate 180 seat majority for labour

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From the looks of him/her - should stick to D&D forums .. oops a Johnson/Trussite - it likely is a D&D forum The times lifted the article from

 

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No surprises here

"Rishi Sunak has been warned that he will be breaking human rights law if his government ignores european court orders intended to stop asylum seekers being sent to Rwanda. "

Rwanda’s minister of foreign affairs Vincent Biruta has said

“Without lawful behaviour by the UK, Rwanda would not be able to continue with the Migration and Economic Development Partnership.”

 

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Head of Strasbourg court warns UK government not to ignore orders from ECHR judges

 

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the deals off anyway as it stands

“Without lawful behaviour by the UK, Rwanda would not be able to continue with the Migration and Economic Development Partnership.”

- Vincent Biruta - Rwanda’s minister of foreign affairs

 

£400 million quid on a policy everyone knew wouldn't fly

Rwanda has clearly said it won't breach international law

Even Sunak said it in his leadership challenge

 

All sunaks changes have been are wicked wheezes unworthy of a lord snooty comic plot to use tricks of wordplay to bypass clear international law

- and all that was needed was No Brexit

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