S. Gwilliam
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This person's Freedom of Information requests (approximately 58)
LCW claimants returning to employment.
Partially successful
I fear that the DWP are once again engaging in semantics and misdirection here.
My original request regarding ESA clearly stated in each part "where...
Cost of Living payment timing.
Response by Department for Work and Pensions to S. Gwilliam on .
Successful
Dear S Gwilliam,
I am writing in response to your request for information, received 24th
April.
Yours sincerely,
DWP Central FoI Team
DWP Centr...
Statistics for WCA outcomes in UC.
Response by Department for Work and Pensions to S. Gwilliam on .
Awaiting internal review
Dear S Gwilliam
Thank you for your email of 8 May, just to confirm that the twentieth working day following receipt of your Internal Review request is...
UC Managed Migration Pilot Outcomes
Successful
The DWP have now released the requested information, following the intervention of the ICO.
However they are still claiming that a s35(1)(a) exemptio...
"we have established that the information you requested is not held by this Department"
"The Assistant Work Coach role is no longer...
UC LCWRA Journal entries not being read
Response by Department for Work and Pensions to S. Gwilliam on .
Partially successful
Dear S Gwilliam,
I am writing in response to your request for information, received 6th
January.
Yours sincerely,
DWP Central FoI Team
DWP Cent...
NSESA Claimant Commitment - Example Letter/Form.
Response by Department for Work and Pensions to S. Gwilliam on .
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Dear S Gwilliam,
I am writing in response to your request for information, received 22nd
October.
Yours sincerely,
DWP Central FoI Team
Draft
T...
Telephone WCA decisions - follow up request.
Response by Department for Work and Pensions to S. Gwilliam on .
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Dear S Gwilliam,
I am writing in response to your request for information, received 15th
April.
Yours sincerely,
DWP Central FoI Team
WHDM upda...
I have now made a follow up FoI to request the full 'communications' from which those extracts came.
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/telephone_...
PIP renewal above SPA.
Successful
Just to note that the Welfare Reform Act regulation referred to in the reply gives the SoS the option to waive the requirement for a PIP fixed term as...
Number of complaints raised regarding the DWP
Response by Information Commissioner's Office to S. Gwilliam on .
Successful
12 March 2021
Our reference: IC-91766-K7M0
Dear S Gwilliam,
Please see attached response to your information request.
Yours sincerely,
Jennife...
Permitted Work (ESA) rejection letter.
Response by Department for Work and Pensions to S. Gwilliam on .
Successful
Dear S Gwilliam,
I am writing in response to your request for information, received 23rd
November.
Yours sincerely,
DWP Central FoI Team
Title,...
Turns out that it is not a combined form, it's an ESA56 but they have just added the LT54 designation to the new version.
Possibly done just to clarif...
Travel time to Jobcentre - Posters.
Response by Department for Work and Pensions to S. Gwilliam on .
Partially successful
Dear S Gwilliam,
I am writing in response to your request for information, received 7th
February.
Yours sincerely,
DWP Central FoI Team
DWP Cen...
Dear S Gwilliam,
I am writing in response to your request for information, received 12
February.
Your response is attached
Yours sincerely,
DW...
If you check the above reply on 11 Jan 2017 it tells you that "Freepost DWP ESA 23" is the short postal address for the Oldham ESA office.
The latest reply (and information from elsewhere) confirms what was suspected.
In cases where a claimant has been previously been found Fit-for-Work...
Dear Sir/Madam,
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 / ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION REGULATIONS
2004
REFERENCE: IG 02128
Please see attached for...
TTRO Egremont - Follow up request.
Response by Department for Transport to S. Gwilliam on .
Successful
Dear Mr Gwilliam,
Further to your email request below seeking clarification on the initial FOI response.
I can confirm that further checks have been...
TTRO Egremont, Cumbria
Response by Department for Transport to S. Gwilliam on .
Information not held
Dear Mr S Gwilliam,
Further to your request below please find attached the response to your FOI request.
Regards,
Dave Candlish
Mr S Gwilliam Vi...
Dear Sir/Madam,
The list I provided you with is from our Council Tax system, we would only know it as a HIMO for Council Tax if we were told by the ow...
PIP 'Light Touch' Reviews
Response by Department for Work and Pensions to S. Gwilliam on .
Partially successful
Dear S Gwilliam,
I am writing in response to your request for information, received 12th
June.
Yours sincerely,
DWP Central FoI Team
DWP Centra...
JSA NC1 - NI Credits Only form.
Response by Department for Work and Pensions to S. Gwilliam on .
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Dear S Gwilliam,
I am writing in response to your request for information, received 3
April.
Your response is attached
Yours sincerely,
DWP Op...
MED3 and Universal Credit
Successful
Wonderful eventual response from the DWP.
So although there is an online portal where you can upload MED3s to support ESA (non-digital) claims, you h...
DM request for F2F WCA - Follow up to previous RFI.
Response by Department for Work and Pensions to S. Gwilliam on .
Successful
Dear S Gwilliam,
I am writing in response to your request for information, received 5
February.
Your response is attached
Yours sincerely,
DWP...
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LCW claimants returning to employment.
Partially successful
I fear that the DWP are once again engaging in semantics and misdirection here.
My original request regarding ESA clearly stated in each part "where...
LCW claimants returning to employment.
Partially successful
Thanks, I am aware of that limitation with linked UC claims but as you say they can't easilly be seperated and if a meaningful reply is forthcoming it...
Lifetime/Long Term Disability Benefits Award (ESA, PIP, UNIVERSAL CREDIT LIMITED CAPABILITY ELEMENT)
Long overdue
I feel that the DWPs advice on narrowing your request is somewhat disingenuous.
PIP awards can indeed have a 'fixed end date' or be 'ongoing' subject...
‘Cost of living help and exactly who will get £650 help’
Information not held
Note that the wording has been changed in the updated version released 15th June.
The reference to a disability benefit has been removed.
(That actua...
UC Managed Migration Pilot Outcomes
Successful
The DWP have now released the requested information, following the intervention of the ICO.
However they are still claiming that a s35(1)(a) exemptio...
UC Managed Migration Pilot Outcomes
Successful
Further information:
The DWP have now revealed (again in a meeting) that the number of people migrated to UC on the Harrogate pilot was 38.
UC Managed Migration Pilot Outcomes
Successful
Despite the DWPs continued refusal I have now found (in SSAC meeting minutes from last December) a major part of the requested information:
All of t...
"we have established that the information you requested is not held by this Department"
"The Assistant Work Coach role is no longer...
The "AI career coach called Bob" RE: DWP will use £1.3m robot to find people jobs in latest Universal Credit crackdown
Partially successful
"Building on this information, the cutting-edge software will then make intelligent suggestions based on live local jobs market data. Using specialist...
Amiee,
The DWP won't normally reply to FoI requests if you don't use a full name.
However I can do it for you:
You have to wait 3 Full APs from sub...
UC Managed Migration Pilot Outcomes
Successful
ICO Case Reference: IC-155224-M2G3
"The issue regarding the updating of an individual’s National Insurance record with class 3
contributions was first identified in 2019."
I can sh...
This has been going on for years with ESA and JSA - before UC came along.
They seem to have no interest in actually fixing it.
I personally know of...
UC managed migration pilot
Successful
Hi Owen,
we appear to have similar requests, and to be encountering the same (tbh not unexpected) difficulties obtaining the information.
https://www...
Claimant Referral To Work & Health Programme
Successful
Jeff,
I have asked this previously (back in 2017) and got the following reply, (albeit without any reference to the legislation which I hadn't asked f...
I have now made a follow up FoI to request the full 'communications' from which those extracts came.
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/telephone_...
Incredible.
Even when instructed by the ICO to comply with the request, and even after supplying the information, the DWP still try to maintain that t...
PIP renewal above SPA.
Successful
Just to note that the Welfare Reform Act regulation referred to in the reply gives the SoS the option to waive the requirement for a PIP fixed term as...
Complaint has been raised with the ICO regarding the failure to provide the information requested.
Range of outcomes for Work Capability Assessments via "telephone assessments at scale"
Awaiting classification
Additional:
Rightsnet have now followed up on that IR response and have today published confirmation from the DWP:
https://www.rightsnet.org.uk/welf...
Range of outcomes for Work Capability Assessments via "telephone assessments at scale"
Awaiting classification
Frank,
You may be interested in the reponse on 9th Feb to my recent Internal Review request here:
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/716789/resp...
Lcwra
Awaiting classification
This is realy the wrong place to ask that question. See below.
The waiting period for LCWRA in an existing UC claim is 3 months from the start of the...
A printable copy of form JSANC1
Information not held
Graham,
Not sure why you seem to have reported my original request?
Anyway - The form is passworded so you can't print it from Adobe - BUT if you rig...
What is an ESA113 form?
Awaiting classification
Diane,
See this link for a listing, and examples, of ESA forms:
https://www.youreable.com/forums/showthread.php?13180-Listing-of-ESA-standard-forms
Turns out that it is not a combined form, it's an ESA56 but they have just added the LT54 designation to the new version.
Possibly done just to clarif...