Thread by @MePeterNicholls

People have asked me how the can help. Well firstly, my biggest worry is the bills and food. I don’t know how long this is going to be for. It might be three weeks. It might be three months. It could be even longer. Back in 2006 I went over 6 months without anything coming in —>

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—> while I appealed an incapacity benefit decision (that got overturned in my favour at the appeal tribunal). (That was a catalogue of atrocious errors by almost every contact point by job centres, sociss ask security offices and the DWP. I won and got back pay, but —>

—> I had racked up unbelievable debts and had to have a debt relief order. I complained about the saga in detail to my Mp as my friend helping me had kept a diary of everything. He took it further and eventually I was given a compensation payment from DWP as an apology —>

—> for such awful service. In 14 years since I’ve had 7 further assessments for DLA, PIP and ESA. Only one of these I have not had to appeal! And won all appeals. The system is rotten. So maybe yes you can do something: write to the papers. Write to the mp’s. —>

—> Demand that humanity, fairness and decency be put back in to the welfare and benefits system; a system that dehumanises, crushes, and destroys lives just so they can say to the daily Mail and Sun how many people their getting off benefits. —// end.

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