This happened to the woman who lived in my flat before me. Died 3 weeks later.

Given my own experience with applying for ESA and DLA (we don't have PIP in Northern Ireland yet thankfully), this doesn't surprise me in the least. Even when your advisor points out case law relevant to your situation because they make incorrect decisions, they still flat out refuse to apologise and just say something along the lines of "Due to new evidence we have reviewed your claim." That you even need an advisor to push through the absurdity of the system is insane.

I know for myself, the ongoing issues with my claims (ESA is sorted thankfully, just DLA have screwed up) my recovery has been set back significantly.

While claiming Universal Credit I had to work at the DWP in their appeals team for 6 weeks which, although it was unpaid, I was happy to do as I figured it would be good experience and might help me get a job in the future - that was supposed to be the point of it.

That was not the point of it - the point of it was to supply free labour to the office to do the filing. It literally didn't get done unless there was a work placement person like me in to do it.

Fine, whatever. No complaints it's still experience. I just spent my time keeping notes about the fucked up shit I heard around the place and by far the worst was the woman in charge of the department that my department was within boasting that she had a woman in her team working on the Friday and she died of her cancer on the Tuesday, so there was no excuse for the amount of sick leave in some of the other groups.

That's the mentality of these people.

No apology, then. There are few people this world would be better off without, but IDS is number one.

She was probably faking it to get free money.

#CompassionateConservatism

Yeah, six months prior. Fuck's sake, DWP, even if they could once admit they fucked up they might retain a sliver of credibility.

An utter disgrace to this country.

Why is it surprising?

IDS is the biggest fuckwit I've ever seen, and I've seen many

4 out of 7 days a week I couldn't walk across the room to go to the loo, nor get food, struggled to hold a conversation without my partner about to help... I was refused help from social services because on my best days I could walk in the local shops but I struggled to get to health appointments safely (I scared a lot of people do they stopped my help as they felt I couldn't handle the travel.)

I was also refused pip and told I would get worse from trying to get esa as they would try to put me on jobseekers.

It was the same with health services - I was too ill for some (to get there or attend regularly sure to the unpredictable nature of my issues) and too good on my best days that I have slipped through the system for 10 years to try and fix this.

A year ago I was told I had a 70% chance of healing it completely or a 90% chance of kickstarting recovery - thing is treatment is extreme, not a NHS approved treatment for it and very expensive emotionally and financially for the rest of my life. The positives though, it would be free, sex with my partner would be involved and I'd have a baby at the end of it. We both wanted kids so now I'm 3 months later and now I'm getting help left right and centre because I'm pregnant and my illness is already much better...

If it wasn't for the bump though, I'd have no help at all and I'd be still unable to walk across the room to the loo most days... Pregnancy can't help others like me and I've seen how the government is destroying these people's lives through stupid decisions.

It's really surprising to me that nobody has tracked down IDS and offered a few new policy ideas, delivered with the thick end of a baseball bat.

I believe this is called compassionate conservatism. Don't think labour would have been any better under Milliband. They were just as bad under Blair and Brown.

Before everyone gets their knickers in a twist, lets have a look at this without getting emotional.

The original claim was in June. Information about her condition was provided with the claim. It was deemed that she qualified for the benefits.

Then, come November she reapplied but no up to date information appears to have been provided from her GP. The old information was from five months ago therefore outdated, her condition could have improved.

That is why it was denied, because the information they had was five months out of date. Not because of some malicious government plot. To make it fair, the decision has to be the same rules for everyone otherwise it is one rule for some and one rule for others.

Business as usual for the Dept. of Whipping the Poor, then.

In cases like this, I really believe the acting manager of the particular case should be named. Responsibility should fall at a persons feet, not under the umbrella of 'DWP'.

"Sandra Jones, manager at DWP, denies woman sickness benefit on the day she died" would have so much more effect long term.

IDS should be treated as a murderer. As a disabled person myself I am disgusted that this government actively want to exterminate people like me.

If I was going for an interview for a IT project support role at DWP tomorrow morning what positives should I focus on?

Theoretically, of course...

Atos would probably have written her another letter the day of the funeral, saying that they had refused her appeal and she was still considered fit for work!

fucking disgusting that David Cameron and his Government have been allowed to continue

Her illness was almost over, clearly.

Lol. I hope she at least had the good humour to have "I told you I was ill" put on her headstone.

I read this and thought it appalling but, when you look at the eligibility criteria you have to be over 65 to qualify. Am I missing something? (https://www.gov.uk/attendance-allowance/eligibility)

Filth.