Hi we help people with poverty issues including benefits housing and money problems
CCAP and Edinburgh Claimants runs an open support and solidarity session for benefits hassles, debt woes, and similar poverty problems. We are not paid, and we are not experts, but we have experience of many of these problems and when we join together and argue our case to the authorities as an organisation they can be forced to listen.
26/10/2020
Electrification Of Heat - Warmworks Electrification of Heat Demonstration ProjectAbout the projectWarmworks has been awarded funding from the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) to deliver the Electrification of Heat Demonstration Project to householders in South East Scotland.The project will install a rang...
02/10/2020
NHS trust, regulator and Atos all apologise over nurse’s dishonest PIP assessment An NHS trust, the nursing regulator and a government contractor have all been forced to apologise over their failure to carry out proper investigations into a nurse who dishonestly assessed a disab…
10/08/2020
Claimants can now stop DWP telling GPs to “no longer” issue ‘sick notes’ and protect their Patient-Doctor relationship. After DWP updates Data Protection consent rights for ‘Capability for Work’ assessments. (Aug 10th, 2020) Related: Tories remove disability and health data consent rights – on first day as new Gov – December 17, 2019 The DWP has just published a new version of it’s ESA50 (8/20) ‘capab…
07/08/2020
26/06/2020
New alliance to scrap universal credit aims to mirror anti-poll tax campaign Disabled activists have called for opponents of universal credit (UC) across the country to help mirror the campaign that led to the poll tax being abandoned in the early 1990s, by joining a new na…
22/06/2020
"The case revolved around the Department for Work and Pensions’ refusal to change universal credit assessment period regulations, which have the effect of penalising claimants whose salary is paid towards the end of a month, resulting in fluctuating levels of income."
Universal credit rules irrational and unlawful, judge says Court of appeal backs four single mothers after long legal fight by government
20/05/2020
What PIP telephone assessments are really like The latest PIP, ESA and DLA news
21/04/2020
Edinburgh food project launched City of Edinburgh Council and voluntary sector organisations have teamed up to ensure communities can access vital food supplies