Benefits Advice & Representation Service

Cancer doesn't have to be a killer especially Prostate Cancer! Earlier this year I announced I had prostate cancer because I want to save just one man's life. If your male and reading this get tested for prostate cancer. It might save your life. I was diagnosed with aggressive prostate cancer. Thankfully, they caught it just in time, it had nearly gone into the bone. All this and no symptoms.
If you're a man reading this get tested! Unfortunately, a fellow sufferer I heard of last week who's a lot younger than me but like me had no real symptoms apart from getting up more during the night to wee, has just been told his prostate cancer is terminal.
Don't look for "Red blood" in your wee, look for tints of pink. Water dilutes blood remember. It's a blood and urine test done by your GP not a finger test or a camera down your dooda. Unless the blood and urine test indicates anomalies. If my cancer saves one other man's life it will have been worth it. If a finger test or camera test saves your life surely it will have been worth it.
Treatment consists of hormone treatment and radiotherapy not usually chemo. I have an 80 year old friend whose prostate cancer was advanced as mine. He received the same treatment as me last year. Earlier this year he was given the all clear. His cancer has been cured!
If you've started p*eing more or p*eing less, getting up to p*e more often during the night or getting discomfort when weeping. Get tested. It takes 5 minutes. Only a fool would not trade 5 minutes for the rest of their life. Don't be one!
Similar applies for women! O***y cancer is a killer but not if its caught early. Please get checked out regularly. It might save your life!
Live Long & Prosper
Terry

It is commonly thought that the bedroom tax cannot be challenged anymore. This is not the case. If you are paying it, get in touch to see if you are being charged unlawfully.

One of my clients informed me yesterday that he had received over £5k in backdated benefit and a weekly increase of benefit totalling £185.00.

Today we saw 6 clients 3 of whom are disabled and have had weekly increases in benefit of £199.00; £151 and £108.00 two of them received back pay of over £2500.00 each. In all these clients will accumulate an estimated £40,000.00 which would have gone unclaimed if we had not advised them. Another client was placed in the ESA Support Group. Last week we advised and assisted 4 clients to success at first tier tribunals and one at the upper tribunal.
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We recently obtained for our clients the following sums £20000;16000.00 and £11000.00. The lower sums in disability benefits. The £20000.00 in an employment case.

Just tutored two free courses on University Credit and Dealing with Destitution. Thanks to those who attended and for putting up with me

Obtained £8500.00 in Attendance Allowance for a client this week which will increase his pension credit by over £70.00 per week totalling nearly £16000.00 over the next two years.

Secured for a client, ESA of £5700.00 at appeal over the next two years plus £950.00 backdated. In total in excess of £7500.00. Now for the PIP claim.

This is probably the most important General Election since 1945. Ni Bevan's brainchild of quality education for all; health care for all and a welfare system which supports the sick and disabled. Ni Bevan introduced these. Don't let David Cameron take them away One way to ensure a Labour victory is by mobilising benefit claimants. For those of you who do not realise, severely sick and severely disabled claimants are now required to sign on. It is the madness of the asylum to assume that the treatment of benefit claimants don't affect working people THEY DO!.
We have part time zero hours poorly paid workers who have to claim Housing Benefit to survive. The rules now mean that claimants claiming Housing Benefit can be sanctioned for up to 3 years, losing the rent, their home and probably any semblance of life. Homelessness will be rife amongst our members. As well as food banks there will be night shelters for children and their parents, amongst other things will become the norm. These sanctioned will be applied whereby those claimants will have their Housing Benefit if renting and Housing Costs if mortgaged are deemed by the DWP as "Not doing enough to get more hours and/or a better job and/or have hit hard times.
Don't be fooled for one minute into believing Old Age Pension(SRP) is not a benefit. It is its paid out of the welfare budget! Osborne has said he is going to cut welfare by a further 600 billion during the next parliament. This can only be achieved by cutting pensions. Even if he cut benefits he has already cut to nothing. This would save a fraction only, of this. So Old Age Pensions(SRP) is the only benefit left he can cut to achieve the cuts he requires in the welfare budget. SRP is by far the greatest portion of the welfare budget.
From insider information, this will be sold as those pensioners who have occupation pensions do not need the State Retirement Pension(SRP). It is only fair that pensioners should contribute, like others to the austerity. The Tories intend to means test the pension with a small disregard. For example, a pensioner who gets say £1200.00 occupational pension. Under the present rules will get her state pension of £800.00 per month. However, under the new rules she will lose all but £200.00(the disregard) of her state pension. Thus she will be £600.00 a month worse off! Its all in the wording.
This is how the Tories can make the promise that all pensioners will get £140.00. However, they never said how this would be made up. Its all in the words. Recently, the Tories introduced Personal Independence Payments(PIP) to replace Disability Living Allowance for severely disabled people. At the time Ian Duncan Smith announced that no pensioners over 65 years of age will be required to have their benefit reviewed and no doubt reduced or taken away altogether! However, he omitted a small three letter word after 65 NOW. Therefore, any claimants under the age of 65 on 08.042013 who are 65 now or 12 months younger still run the risk of losing their benefit.
Homelessness, destitution and starvation is now the punishment of the poor for being poor are being made to include: to pay for the tax cuts and corruption of the rich. If the Tories win in May watch out all employees. Employers will learn very quickly that they can treat workers abysmally and get away with it because disabled and abled bodied employees will no longer have the safety net of a benefits system.
In Liverpool the community branch which I am proud to be a member of is putting on a course called "Dealing with Destitution". This should be going out to all nationally.
Getting people out to vote Labour is the only way to prevent this. Do not sit on your laurels. You will pay for it! Do not let the Tories in by the back door as they got into Government in 2010.