Frank Zola
Joined WhatDoTheyKnow in 2012
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This person's Freedom of Information requests (approximately 502)
Information held on UC Second Opinions of a first or on-going Claimant Commitment
Request sent to Social Security Advisory Committee by Frank Zola on .
Awaiting response.
In your report SSAC Occasional Paper 21: The effectiveness of the Claimant Commitment (CC) in Universal Credit you say:
"Claimants are entitled t...
DWP Serious Case Panel information
Response by Department for Work and Pensions to Frank Zola on .
Awaiting classification.
Our ref: FOI2020/64530
Contact email: [1][email address]
Dear Frank Zola,
Thank you for your request for information which was received on 26th...
Claimant Commitment Second Opinion
Response by Department for Work and Pensions to Frank Zola on .
Awaiting classification.
This is an automated confirmation that your request for information has
been accepted by the DWP FOI mailbox.
If your email is a Freedom of Inform...
DWP Serious Case Panel, papers and guidance, policy and operational procedures on Safeguarding 'vulnerable' claimants including those with complex needs
Response by Department for Work and Pensions to Frank Zola on .
Awaiting classification.
Dear Frank Zola,
I am writing in response to your request for information, received 16th
September.
Yours sincerely,
DWP Central FoI Team
DWP C...
Minutes of the SSAC
Response by Department for Work and Pensions to Frank Zola on .
Awaiting classification.
This is an automated confirmation that your request for information has
been accepted by the DWP FOI mailbox.
If your email is a Freedom of Inform...
Your 2020 minutes of meetings
Follow up sent to Social Security Advisory Committee by Frank Zola on .
Awaiting response.
I want to amend my request to:
Please email me all of your minutes for meetings undertaken so far during 2020 and minutes of any meetings that hav...
Latest version of your Jobcentre Customer Facing Risk Assessment (JCFRA )
Response by Department for Work and Pensions to Frank Zola on .
Awaiting classification.
Dear Frank Zola,
I am writing in response to your request for information, received 15th
September.
Yours sincerely,
DWP Central FoI Team
DWP C...
Your Jobcentre Customer Facing Risk Assessment (JCFRA) posted on your intranet
Response by Department for Work and Pensions to Frank Zola on .
Awaiting classification.
Dear Frank Zola,
I am writing in response to your request for information, received 2nd
July.
Yours sincerely,
DWP Central FoI Team
DWP Central...
Your "equality analysis" on the reinstatement of conditionality [benefit sanctions] across affected benefits
Response by Department for Work and Pensions to Frank Zola on .
Awaiting classification.
This is an automated confirmation that your request for information has
been accepted by the DWP FOI mailbox.
If your email is a Freedom of Inform...
Use of Digital Nudges and "digital interventions" by UC Work Coaches
Response by Department for Work and Pensions to Frank Zola on .
Awaiting classification.
Dear Frank Zola,
I am writing in response to your request for information, received 11th
September.
Yours sincerely,
DWP Central FoI Team
UC03...
UC claimant history
Response by Department for Work and Pensions to Frank Zola on .
Awaiting classification.
Dear Frank Zola,
I am writing in response to your request for information, received 11th
September.
Yours sincerely,
DWP Central FoI Team
Claim...
Unsolicited emails, text and UC Journal messages - how can claimants unsubscribe from them?
Response by Department for Work and Pensions to Frank Zola on .
Awaiting classification.
Dear Frank Zola,
I am writing in response to your request for information, received 11th
September.
Yours sincerely,
DWP Central FoI Team
DWP C...
ESA65B, ESA50, UC50 and ESA1: ICO Case Reference Number RFA0833480
Response by Department for Work and Pensions to Frank Zola on .
Awaiting classification.
Mr Zola,
We are nearing completion on the revised version, but we don't yet have a date for publication.
DWP Freedom of Information Request Team
Guidance issued to Work Coaches and Case Managers to support the re-implementation of Claimant Commitments in July 2020
Response by Department for Work and Pensions to Frank Zola on .
Successful.
Dear Frank Zola,
I am writing in response to your request for information, received 24
August.
Your response is attached
Yours sincerely,
DWP...
J Roberts, The DWP has stopped all mandatory referrals to the Work and Health Programme for 'long term unemployed' and as such it is now voluntary htt...
Universal Credit expectation to spend 35 hours per week on Work Search activity
Response by Department for Work and Pensions to Frank Zola on .
Successful.
Dear Frank Zola,
I am writing in response to your request for information, received 30th
July.
Yours sincerely,
DWP Central FoI Team
DWP Centra...
Work and Health Programme contract variations
Response by Department for Work and Pensions to Frank Zola on .
Refused.
Dear Frank Zola,
I am writing in response to your request for information, received 15th
July.
Yours sincerely,
DWP Central FoI Team
DWP Centra...
Loans to Support for Mortgage Interest
Successful.
Recent judicial review concerning LMI:
"57. The EIA [Equality Impact Assessment] noted that currently almost half of SMI recipients (52%) were pensi...
Server addresses for universal-credit.service.gov.uk and processing Universal Credit claimants data outside the UK
Response by Department for Work and Pensions to Frank Zola on .
Refused.
Dear Frank Zola,
I am writing in response to your request for information, received 21st
July.
Yours sincerely,
DWP Central FoI Team
DWP Centra...
DWP, BMA and RCGP correspondence and notes on the ESA65B action log annex. re letter to Marsha de Cordova MP
Partially successful.
"we are now aiming to have the ESA1 and
ESA50 live from mid-August and can share copies with you once they have been published. "
https://www.whatd...
The Cabinet Secretary first issued the requirement to revise the ESA65B letter in November 2014
Partially successful.
"we are now aiming to have the ESA1 and
ESA50 live from mid-August and can share copies with you once they have been published. "
https://www.whatd...
Letters & info sent to GPs after being found 'fit-for-work', regards 'Fit Notes' and related matters
Successful.
"we are now aiming to have the ESA1 and
ESA50 live from mid-August and can share copies with you once they have been published. "
https://www.whatd...
Revised ESA65B
Partially successful.
"we are now aiming to have the ESA1 and
ESA50 live from mid-August and can share copies with you once they have been published. "
https://www.whatd...
Withdraw consent (opt-out) to sharing my personal data with a GP
Partially successful.
"we are now aiming to have the ESA1 and
ESA50 live from mid-August and can share copies with you once they have been published. "
https://www.whatd...
DWP should "Refresh consent" concerning the ESA65B letter and informing Doctors of claimant 'fit-for-work' decisions
Partially successful.
"we are now aiming to have the ESA1 and
ESA50 live from mid-August and can share copies with you once they have been published. "
https://www.whatd...
This person's 396 annotations
Your "equality analysis" on the reinstatement of conditionality [benefit sanctions] across affected benefits
Awaiting classification.
DWP 'Equality Analysis for Reinstatement of Benefit Sanctions and Conditionality' https://mrfrankzola.wordpress.com/2020/09/30/benefit-sanctions-equali...
spotlight: Work search reviews by phone
Successful.
DWP spotlights on: [1] First commitments by phone appointment[2] Work Search reviews and Digital Nudges https://mrfrankzola.files.wordpress.com/2020/08...
J Roberts, The DWP has stopped all mandatory referrals to the Work and Health Programme for 'long term unemployed' and as such it is now voluntary htt...
Claimant commitments from July 1st 2020
Successful.
Spotlight on: Fortnightlywork search reviews and Spotlight on First commitments by phone appointment (as above)
https://mrfrankzola.files.wordpress.co...
Stopping the IT system sending that ESA65B letter?
Partially successful.
"we are now aiming to have the ESA1 and
ESA50 live from mid-August and can share copies with you once they have been published. "
https://www.whatd...
Cabinet Secretary ESA56B revision requirement issued 2014
Partially successful.
"we are now aiming to have the ESA1 and
ESA50 live from mid-August and can share copies with you once they have been published. "
https://www.whatd...
The Cabinet Office and Cabinet Secretary ESA65B requirements - work - policy and activities undertaken 2013-2017.
Partially successful.
"we are now aiming to have the ESA1 and
ESA50 live from mid-August and can share copies with you once they have been published. "
https://www.whatd...
Where a client "fails" the WCA - does the DWP tell GPs not to issue a medical certificate?
Long overdue.
"we are now aiming to have the ESA1 and
ESA50 live from mid-August and can share copies with you once they have been published. "
https://www.whatd...
DWP, BMA and RCGP correspondence and notes on the ESA65B action log annex. re letter to Marsha de Cordova MP
Partially successful.
"we are now aiming to have the ESA1 and
ESA50 live from mid-August and can share copies with you once they have been published. "
https://www.whatd...
The Cabinet Secretary first issued the requirement to revise the ESA65B letter in November 2014
Partially successful.
"we are now aiming to have the ESA1 and
ESA50 live from mid-August and can share copies with you once they have been published. "
https://www.whatd...
ESA50 Form Declaration Section
Successful.
"we are now aiming to have the ESA1 and
ESA50 live from mid-August and can share copies with you once they have been published. "
https://www.whatd...
Work Capability Assessments and Fit Notes
Partially successful.
"we are now aiming to have the ESA1 and
ESA50 live from mid-August and can share copies with you once they have been published. "
https://www.whatd...
Letters & info sent to GPs after being found 'fit-for-work', regards 'Fit Notes' and related matters
Successful.
"we are now aiming to have the ESA1 and
ESA50 live from mid-August and can share copies with you once they have been published. "
https://www.whatd...
Revised ESA65B
Partially successful.
"we are now aiming to have the ESA1 and
ESA50 live from mid-August and can share copies with you once they have been published. "
https://www.whatd...
ESA65B outcome letter to Doctors and patient opt-in to do so
Information not held.
"we are now aiming to have the ESA1 and
ESA50 live from mid-August and can share copies with you once they have been published. "
https://www.whatd...
Withdraw consent (opt-out) to sharing my personal data with a GP
Partially successful.
"we are now aiming to have the ESA1 and
ESA50 live from mid-August and can share copies with you once they have been published. "
https://www.whatd...
DWP should "Refresh consent" concerning the ESA65B letter and informing Doctors of claimant 'fit-for-work' decisions
Partially successful.
"we are now aiming to have the ESA1 and
ESA50 live from mid-August and can share copies with you once they have been published. "
https://www.whatd...
The 150,000+ invalid ESA65B letters sent to GPs without claimant consent
Information not held.
"we are now aiming to have the ESA1 and
ESA50 live from mid-August and can share copies with you once they have been published. "
https://www.whatd...
Letters to GPs following WCA assessments
Partially successful.
"we are now aiming to have the ESA1 and
ESA50 live from mid-August and can share copies with you once they have been published. "
https://www.whatd...
ICO Ref: RFA0833480 and DWP ESA50, UC50 and ESA1 forms on the matter of opt-in consent and the ESA65B form
Successful.
"we are now aiming to have the ESA1 and
ESA50 live from mid-August and can share copies with you once they have been published. "
https://www.whatd...
Case Reference Number IRQ0912395
Awaiting classification.
"we are now aiming to have the ESA1 and
ESA50 live from mid-August and can share copies with you once they have been published. "
https://www.whatd...
ESA65B, ESA50, UC50 and ESA1: ICO Case Reference Number RFA0833480
Awaiting classification.
"we are now aiming to have the ESA1 and
ESA50 live from mid-August and can share copies with you once they have been published. "
https://www.whatd...
"we are now aiming to have the ESA1 and
ESA50 live from mid-August and can share copies with you once they have been published. "
https://www.whatd...
Universal Credit: You will be expected to spend 35 hours per week looking for work
Awaiting classification.
Related request https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/universal_credit_expectation_to
Income based 'legacy' JSA would probably end when making a new UC claim. For those eligible to claim 'new style' JSA based upon national insurance cont...