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@CPAGUK
Jun 15, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
Our latest Mind the Gaps briefing shines a light on the problems ill and disabled people are facing because they haven’t had a work capability assessment. Here are just three snapshots of how people’s lives have been affected in this way: 1/4
A man receiving chemotherapy treatment for cancer should have automatically got the limited capability for work-related activity element (which means additional money) in #UniversalCredit. But this has not happened, leaving him in financial hardship. 2/4
A woman with cancer is currently subject to the #BenefitCap. The cap shouldn't apply to people who qualify for the limited capability for work-related activity element, but she hasn’t been assessed to show she qualifies. Her and her partner are losing out on £1271.92 a month. 3/4
A bereaved man with severe anxiety and depression has been submitting fit notes to the DWP in relation to his UC since before December. The DWP has still not made a decision about his entitlement and he is struggling to make ends meet. He is currently relying on food banks. /ends

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The #BenefitCap was first announced #OnThisDay in 2010 by George Osborne at the Conservative party conf. It came in in 2013. It breaks the vital link between the support you need & the support you get from our social security system & pushes kids into poverty [thread] 1/17
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Some stories from our latest report, out today, with @churchofengland. Some may sound familiar:

“I lost my job beginning of March and been unable to find a new job as my son’s nursery closed... I am in more debt and struggling to pay bills and feed my son and myself.”
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“I’ll break down and cry some days, I’ll go to my bedroom and cry, because I can’t give her £20 to go and buy something.”
“They can see there is no money... especially also for the 19-year-old, I don’t want her to know everything that’s happening because she gets very bad panic attacks and anxiety. I try to hide as much as I can from them, but yes, they know.”
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Aug 23, 2020
We've been monitoring the social security system during #COVID19 through our Early Warning System - here are some of the issues we're seeing again and again 1/11
1. Universal credit – the main benefit available to low-income families – is not available to everyone, even though working is now much more difficult for many. 2/11
2. There has been no financial support for children (other than free school meal vouchers for a minority). 3/11
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#NationalFoodStrategy We welcome the call for an extension of entitlement to free school meals. Our CEO @alisongcpag: “Extending free school meals to kids whose parents receive universal credit would be a good step forward in protecting most disadvantaged... 1/n
"...but the evidence shows that free school meals for all kids would achieve so much more. When lunch is free for all, children’s school results are boosted, their diet improves and parents struggling to make ends meet have more to spend on nutritious breakfasts & dinners... 2/n
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Jul 20, 2020
Benefit-capped working mother wins test case against DWP's irrational universal credit rules for assessing earnings - Out statement on today's judgment: cpag.org.uk/news-blogs/new…
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