Hi all,
I’m currently in the fortunate position that I’m not needing or entitled to ESA or PIP but I know that many of you are going through the mill and being damaged through the in humane processes.
This petition is about giving you the right to a face to face appeal, please consider using the link or copying and pasting it to your browser.
thank you
Adam
Signed.
I have followed a couple of 38 degrees campaigns and am quite impressed as they seem to want to know what people are interested irrespective of any political parties.
Mick
Signed. Stupid proposals again, which are designed to save money, but will actually cost more than they save. That’s not a political view, by the way, one side are as bad as the other in this respect.
Jo
done!
pollx
Me too.
hi, signed.
Signed
Evidently, UNUM, a giant US/British insurance company, is behind the governments DWP policy of ‘back to work’ for ESA claimants.
UNUM is selling companies sick pay insurance packages. An example of vested interests sucking up to government.
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"Many disabled activists have grown increasingly concerned at the influence of at least one provider of such policies, which has been blamed for undermining the system of out-of-work disability benefits.
In September, a book by disabled researcher Mo Stewart detailed the influence of the US insurance giant Unum over successive UK governments, and how it had undermined the social security system in order to boost the market for its own income protection policies.
And there is likely to be frustration that, yet again, there is a strong focus on encouraging employers to be more “disability confident” – with a suggestion of offering them “financial or other incentives” to employ disabled people – but no mention of any measures to force them to implement their Equality Act duties on employing disabled people.
A DWP spokeswoman told DNS: “Businesses are required to fulfil their legal obligations under the Equality Act.
“As part of the consultation, we ask what the expectation should be on employers to recruit and retain disabled people and those with long-term health conditions.”"
I signed.
PJ