Revised and updated, November 22 2011. As regular readers might know, my diet needs quite a lot of fibre in it. I’ve tried various ways of accomplishing this, high-fibre muffins being the latest (and pleasantest by a country mile). Having never so much as eaten a muffin (that’s the American-style muffin, not the flat English [...]
Archive for November 12th, 2011
High-fibre muffins…
Posted in High-fibre muffin recipe, tagged food, High-fibre muffin, Muffins on November 12, 2011 |
Benefit Integrity Centres…
Posted in Benefit Integrity Centres, tagged Employment and Support Allowance (ESA), Incapacity Benefit (IB), Income Support (IS), Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA) on November 12, 2011 | 1 Comment »
The DWP has set up Benefit Integrity Centres to check on the validity of benefit claims (the integrity in question is yours, not theirs!). There is an article providing information about the scheme here http://www.dwp.gov.uk/docs/touchbase-ezine-november-2011.pdf but it is very hard to read which, frankly, is inexcusable. I suggest copying the text, without the formatting, and [...]
Working while claiming DLA…
Posted in Work and DLA, tagged Disability benefits, DLA, DLA and employment, DLA and work on November 12, 2011 | 1 Comment »
For the first time in a while, a question from my search-engine slush pile “will the DLA know if I start a part time job?” Whether they know or not doesn’t matter – they don’t care. Contrary to what the cretins at the Daily Mail and the Torygraph seem to think, DLA is







