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41554 blogs · [ { "id": "01a0bbbc-0f5d-710e-86c4-0bb0e9d3087a", "title": "While we’re talking austerity, can anyone help with this question on Income Support, conditions and sanctions", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2017/06/while-were-talking-austerity-can-anyone-help-with-this-question-on-income-support-conditions-and-sanctions/", "published_at": "2017-06-14T12:18:37+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbbc-0f5d-710e-86c4-0bb0ea5281b0", "title": "You don’t end austerity simply by announcing it’s over. You have to undo the damage that’s been done", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2017/06/you-dont-end-austerity-simply-by-announcing-its-over-you-have-to-undo-the-damage-thats-been-done/", "published_at": "2017-06-13T13:50:34+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbbc-0f5d-710e-86c4-0bb0eb2359de", "title": "We consider you housed, because you have a grotty caravan to live in. This is austerity.", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2017/06/we-consider-you-housed-because-you-have-a-grotty-caravan-to-live-in-this-is-austerity/", "published_at": "2017-06-13T10:40:16+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbbc-0f5d-710e-86c4-0bb0eb39a5ff", "title": "Can real problems like homelessness get more than fleeting attention these days?", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2017/06/can-real-problems-such-as-homelessness-get-more-than-fleeting-attention-anymore/", "published_at": "2017-06-07T09:28:50+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbbc-0f5d-710e-86c4-0bb0ec2a8299", "title": "Why we’re on strike: Eastern Avenue jobcentre staff out against jobcentre closures", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2017/06/why-were-on-strike-eastern-avenue-jobcentre-staff-go-out-against-jobcentre-closures/", "published_at": "2017-06-02T09:01:01+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbbc-0f5d-710e-86c4-0bb0ed13c6a1", "title": "You don’t cure addiction by insisting that addicts are trash", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2017/05/how-to-cure-addiction-by-telling-voters-that-addicts-are-garbage-or-something/", "published_at": "2017-05-22T09:52:22+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbbc-0f5d-710e-86c4-0bb0ed220bba", "title": "Meanwhile in the real world… rent arrears and Universal Credit", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2017/05/meanwhile-in-the-real-world-rent-arrears-and-universal-credit/", "published_at": "2017-05-07T11:11:36+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbbc-0f5d-710e-86c4-0bb0edba2946", "title": "Back in June", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2017/05/back-in-june/", "published_at": "2017-05-01T09:45:50+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbbc-0f5d-710e-86c4-0bb0ee433d7e", "title": "DWP: “Closing jobcentres will improve the service.” People who use jobcentres: “No it won’t”", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2017/04/dwp-closing-your-jobcentre-will-improve-the-service-people-who-use-the-jobcentre-no-it-wont/", "published_at": "2017-04-24T09:48:34+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbbc-0f5d-710e-86c4-0bb0ef20391b", "title": "You can’t apply as homeless without an address. What.", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2017/04/you-cant-apply-as-homeless-without-an-address-what/", "published_at": "2017-04-20T09:43:13+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbc0-8115-734b-b8bf-872ce512ae64", "title": "“Rich get richer and poor get poorer… The greed is becoming demented greed.” More views from people on benefits", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2017/04/the-rich-get-richer-and-the-poor-get-poorer-the-greed-is-becoming-a-demented-greed-more-views-from-people-on-benefits/", "published_at": "2017-04-10T16:35:14+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbc0-8115-734b-b8bf-872ce564ffff", "title": "“Towards Work” activities to get a DHP and stayed housed. How big is conditionality going to get?", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2017/04/towards-work-activities-to-get-a-dhp-and-stayed-housed-how-big-is-conditionality-going-to-get/", "published_at": "2017-04-02T11:39:18+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbc0-8115-734b-b8bf-872ce5d27052", "title": "Back soon", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2017/03/back-soon-12/", "published_at": "2017-03-31T10:45:05+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbc0-8115-734b-b8bf-872ce643d17a", "title": "No heating or hot water, because no spare money for problems. This isn’t going to change, is it", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2017/03/no-heating-or-hot-water-because-no-spare-money-for-problems-this-isnt-going-to-change-is-it/", "published_at": "2017-03-20T13:19:48+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbc0-8115-734b-b8bf-872ce66c4a11", "title": "DWP: We can’t attend a public meeting on a jobcentre closure because the meeting is public. BOLLOCKS.", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2017/03/dwp-we-cant-attend-a-public-meeting-on-a-jobcentre-closure-because-the-meeting-is-public-bollocks/", "published_at": "2017-03-17T14:07:12+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbc0-8115-734b-b8bf-872ce73ea35f", "title": "Homeless and placed in a neighbourhood where people think you’re a nark", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2017/03/homeless-and-ending-up-in-a-neighbourhood-where-people-think-youre-a-nark/", "published_at": "2017-03-13T13:23:06+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbc0-8115-734b-b8bf-872ce818b20e", "title": "More recordings: intentionally homeless if you’re evicted for benefit cap rent arrears…?", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2017/03/more-recordings-intentionally-homeless-if-youre-evicted-for-benefit-cap-rent-arrears/", "published_at": "2017-03-09T12:50:57+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbc0-8115-734b-b8bf-872ce8b0d7b0", "title": "The very personal information you must give in public if you need state help", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2017/03/the-very-personal-information-you-must-give-in-public-if-you-need-state-help/", "published_at": "2017-03-01T09:32:15+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbc0-8115-734b-b8bf-872ce8eafbef", "title": "AGES on hold with the DWP…", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2017/02/ages-on-hold-with-the-dwp/", "published_at": "2017-02-27T10:41:39+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbc0-8115-734b-b8bf-872ce9e1c73d", "title": "Look at the state of this flat. Here is independence vs neglect in austerity", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2017/02/look-at-the-state-of-this-flat-here-is-independence-vs-neglect-in-austerity/", "published_at": "2017-02-26T16:55:06+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbc4-df9f-7325-866e-743c6d0f39c2", "title": "Benefit cap arrears and eviction threats for women and children. Already.", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2017/02/benefit-cap-arrears-and-eviction-threats-for-women-and-children-already/", "published_at": "2017-02-16T17:52:52+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbc4-df9f-7325-866e-743c6dab6530", "title": "More views outside the bubble: Hating the government, hating the left, and liking Brexit", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2017/02/more-views-outside-the-bubble-hating-the-government-hating-the-left-and-liking-brexit/", "published_at": "2017-02-13T13:25:29+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbc4-df9f-7325-866e-743c6e65fbcc", "title": "Councils, housing associations and the DWP are crushing people with debt", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2017/02/councils-housing-associations-and-the-dwp-are-crushing-people-with-debt/", "published_at": "2017-02-05T16:49:11+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbc4-df9f-7325-866e-743c6f1e8357", "title": "Can’t use a computer, or read or write very well? Tough. No benefits for you.", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2017/01/cant-use-a-computer-or-read-or-write-very-well-tough-no-benefits-for-you/", "published_at": "2017-01-29T16:48:25+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbc4-df9f-7325-866e-743c6fd9ac4d", "title": "How the Universal Credit bureaucracy can screw your chance of paying rent", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2017/01/how-the-universal-credit-bureaucracy-can-screw-your-chance-of-paying-rent/", "published_at": "2017-01-22T13:13:22+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbc4-df9f-7325-866e-743c70c8e202", "title": "Doesn’t matter if you’re ex prison or drink or use or what the hell. Everyone deserves housing", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2017/01/doesnt-matter-if-youre-ex-prison-or-drink-or-use-or-what-the-hell-everyone-deserves-housing/", "published_at": "2017-01-18T11:16:28+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbc4-df9f-7325-866e-743c71834dfe", "title": "“I stay away from my flat to avoid the bailiffs” – the joys of being hunted down for council tax", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2017/01/i-stay-away-from-my-flat-to-avoid-the-bailiffs-the-joys-of-being-hunted-down-for-council-tax/", "published_at": "2017-01-10T18:08:10+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbc4-df9f-7325-866e-743c71a5339c", "title": "Back soon", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2017/01/back-soon-11/", "published_at": "2017-01-10T10:40:43+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbc4-df9f-7325-866e-743c7201da94", "title": "People who need help actively avoid seeking it now. Applying for benefits, housing, etc, is too torturous", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2016/12/people-who-need-help-most-back-away-from-it-now-applying-for-benefits-housing-etc-is-too-torturous/", "published_at": "2016-12-15T11:15:41+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbc4-df9f-7325-866e-743c72b6c0b1", "title": "About half the people who come to our foodbank are there because of benefit sanctions…", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2016/12/about-half-the-people-who-come-to-our-foodbank-are-there-because-of-benefit-sanctions/", "published_at": "2016-12-02T09:48:53+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbcb-d69c-71a6-a69f-8469d8c23985", "title": "Homelessness in a northern winter can’t be good", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2016/11/homelessness-in-a-northern-winter-cant-be-good/", "published_at": "2016-11-23T12:04:54+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbcb-d69d-72d3-86ac-8a0e8e58b319", "title": "Video: Don’t care what your health is like. You wait outside the jobcentre in the cold", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2016/11/video-dont-care-what-your-health-is-like-you-wait-outside-the-jobcentre-in-the-cold/", "published_at": "2016-11-14T12:33:31+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbcb-d69d-72d3-86ac-8a0e8f4829a7", "title": "Video: jobcentre tells a sick & disabled woman to climb stairs though she can’t. Fix this contempt, Mr Green", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2016/11/video-jobcentre-tells-a-sick-disabled-woman-to-climb-stairs-though-she-cant-fix-this-contempt-mr-green/", "published_at": "2016-11-03T12:42:14+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbcb-d69d-72d3-86ac-8a0e8ffd0325", "title": "You’re on benefits. How dare you enjoy a hamburger, a cigarette, a drink or a life?", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2016/10/youre-on-benefits-how-dare-you-enjoy-a-hamburger-a-cigarette-a-drink-or-a-life/", "published_at": "2016-10-25T09:29:21+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbcb-d69d-72d3-86ac-8a0e906e1866", "title": "Authorities bully benefit claimants because they can", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2016/10/bullying-benefit-claimants-because-you-can/", "published_at": "2016-10-13T12:09:06+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbcb-d69d-72d3-86ac-8a0e90d8848f", "title": "How long do you have to wait to get a PIP appeal hearing after requesting one…?", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2016/10/how-long-do-you-have-to-wait-to-get-a-pip-appeal-hearing-after-requesting-one/", "published_at": "2016-10-03T13:47:40+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbcb-d69d-72d3-86ac-8a0e912e49f0", "title": "TIME TO TAKE THE WHOLE BENEFITS CLAIM SYSTEM DOWN AND START AGAIN. This is mayhem. Seriously.", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2016/09/time-to-take-the-whole-benefits-claim-system-down-and-start-again-this-is-mayhem-seriously/", "published_at": "2016-09-29T12:50:21+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbcb-d69d-72d3-86ac-8a0e91816bec", "title": "Mental health, sanctions and a whole bunch of nothing. More stories from the jobcentre.", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2016/09/mental-health-sanctions-and-a-whole-bunch-of-nothing-more-stories-from-the-jobcentre/", "published_at": "2016-09-29T10:40:59+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbcb-d69d-72d3-86ac-8a0e918c91a5", "title": "Endless, endless disability assessments while support is destroyed. These assessments NEVER end", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2016/09/endless-endless-disability-assessments-while-support-systems-are-slaughtered-these-assessments-never-end/", "published_at": "2016-09-23T10:07:59+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbcb-d69d-72d3-86ac-8a0e91faa185", "title": "Homeless: avoid the coppers, find a B&B…", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2016/09/homeless-avoid-the-coppers-find-a-bb/", "published_at": "2016-09-21T12:40:21+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbd0-b315-73a6-bd4a-156b87e18024", "title": "Giving up on a PIP application – the useless application process is just too difficult", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2016/09/giving-up-on-a-pip-application-the-useless-application-process-is-just-too-difficult/", "published_at": "2016-09-15T10:22:14+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbd0-b315-73a6-bd4a-156b8874a1b0", "title": "I can’t get benefits because I’m homeless and I haven’t got an address. Wtf is going on here.", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2016/09/i-cant-get-benefits-because-im-homeless-and-i-havent-got-an-address-wtf-is-going-on-here/", "published_at": "2016-09-07T12:05:11+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbd0-b315-73a6-bd4a-156b88ac9626", "title": "DWP to disabled man: We’re sticking with the Mandatory Reconsideration we did without you. No PIP for you", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2016/08/dwp-to-disabled-man-were-sticking-with-the-mandatory-reconsideration-we-did-without-you-no-pip-for-you/", "published_at": "2016-08-31T11:32:41+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbd0-b315-73a6-bd4a-156b89723fe4", "title": "Ever tried to call a council or the DWP? People in need MUST be excluded by these hopeless systems", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2016/08/ever-tried-to-call-a-council-or-the-dwp-people-in-need-must-be-excluded-by-these-hopeless-systems/", "published_at": "2016-08-18T10:49:15+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbd0-b315-73a6-bd4a-156b897bfa0b", "title": "Nobody believes anybody now, even on DV issues. More stories from the jobcentre.", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2016/08/nobody-believes-anybody-now-even-on-dv-issues-more-stories-from-the-jobcentre/", "published_at": "2016-08-15T10:44:02+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbd0-b315-73a6-bd4a-156b89a19e0c", "title": "We’ve done your PIP review and turned you down again. Without involving you. Or something", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2016/08/weve-done-your-pip-review-and-turned-you-down-again-without-involving-you-or-something/", "published_at": "2016-08-05T09:23:03+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbd0-b315-73a6-bd4a-156b8a8fc036", "title": "The PIP assessment system is garbage. And dangerous.", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2016/07/the-pip-assessment-system-is-garbage-and-dangerous/", "published_at": "2016-07-26T12:51:30+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbd0-b315-73a6-bd4a-156b8b12a301", "title": "Video: jobcentre adviser says disability support is wrecked. Fix this, Mr Green", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2016/07/video-jobcentre-adviser-says-disability-support-is-wrecked-fix-this-mr-green/", "published_at": "2016-07-19T12:27:25+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbd0-b315-73a6-bd4a-156b8bad3231", "title": "#PIPFightBack: Day of Action Against PIP tomorrow Wednesday 13 July", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2016/07/pipfightback-day-of-action-against-pip-tomorrow-wednesday-13-july/", "published_at": "2016-07-12T17:02:10+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbd0-b315-73a6-bd4a-156b8c1722ee", "title": "How people are treated like garbage when they are trying to apply for PIP", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2016/07/how-to-treat-someone-like-garbage-when-they-are-trying-to-apply-for-pip/", "published_at": "2016-07-11T10:44:30+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbd4-a9a4-70c4-bfc1-6c84abbad5f2", "title": "The future will be wrecked for generations while women and little kids live like this", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2016/07/the-future-will-be-wrecked-for-generations-while-women-and-little-kids-live-like-this/", "published_at": "2016-07-05T10:01:37+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbd4-a9a4-70c4-bfc1-6c84ac0f0e24", "title": "While politicians amuse themselves, austerity continues rampant, etc…", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2016/06/while-politicians-amuse-themselves-austerity-continues-rampant-etc/", "published_at": "2016-06-30T11:59:42+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbd4-a9a4-70c4-bfc1-6c84ad02f757", "title": "You’re the kind of immigrant that we want", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2016/06/youre-the-kind-of-immigrant-that-we-want/", "published_at": "2016-06-30T10:13:43+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbd4-a9a4-70c4-bfc1-6c84adddc6e8", "title": "Sanctioned while waiting to be sanctioned", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2016/06/sanctioned-while-waiting-to-be-sanctioned/", "published_at": "2016-06-10T07:41:09+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbd4-a9a4-70c4-bfc1-6c84adff1ea4", "title": "Making people wait to find out if they’ll be sanctioned is truly sick", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2016/06/making-people-wait-to-find-out-if-theyll-be-sanctioned-is-truly-sick/", "published_at": "2016-06-04T11:26:50+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbd4-a9a4-70c4-bfc1-6c84ae5ba467", "title": "Looking for hope or leadership and finding it only in Brexit. Isn’t much in evidence elsewhere", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2016/05/looking-for-hope-or-leadership-of-any-kind-and-finding-it-only-in-brexit/", "published_at": "2016-05-15T16:18:41+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbd4-a9a4-70c4-bfc1-6c84af07387a", "title": "Placed miles away in temporary housing and can’t afford the commute to work? Too bad.", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2016/04/placed-miles-away-in-temporary-housing-and-cant-afford-the-commute-to-work-too-bad/", "published_at": "2016-04-26T16:15:41+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbd4-a9a4-70c4-bfc1-6c84aff64d79", "title": "Getting older and getting sanctioned. You think being young sucks.", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2016/04/getting-older-and-getting-sanctioned-you-think-being-young-sucks/", "published_at": "2016-04-17T16:02:02+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbd4-a9a4-70c4-bfc1-6c84b01a56a2", "title": "Back soon", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2016/04/back-soon-10/", "published_at": "2016-04-03T14:24:33+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbd4-a9a4-70c4-bfc1-6c84b0f7ec5e", "title": "Closed claims, lost housing benefit: how IDS contempt for sick or disabled claimants played", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2016/03/closed-claims-lost-housing-benefit-how-ids-contempt-for-sick-or-disabled-claimants-played/", "published_at": "2016-03-22T14:01:53+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbd8-5780-70f1-86ff-ba21237d7b09", "title": "How the DWP actively humiliates sick and disabled benefit claimants. More stories from the jobcentre.", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2016/03/how-the-dwp-actively-humiliates-sick-and-disabled-benefit-claimants-more-stories-from-the-jobcentre/", "published_at": "2016-03-18T12:23:12+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbd8-5780-70f1-86ff-ba212476b01f", "title": "Sick and disabled and can’t walk upstairs to JSA signon? Too bad. Expect contempt", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2016/03/sick-and-disabled-and-cant-walk-upstairs-to-jsa-signon-too-bad-youre-only-good-for-contempt/", "published_at": "2016-03-15T18:38:54+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbd8-5780-70f1-86ff-ba2125104511", "title": "Video from roadblock protest against job coaches in GPs surgeries #DoNoHarm", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2016/03/video-from-roadblock-protest-against-job-coaches-in-gps-surgeries-donoharm/", "published_at": "2016-03-09T10:48:18+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbd8-5780-70f1-86ff-ba21253e0cfd", "title": "#NoESAcut: pictures and video from protest today", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2016/02/noesacut-pictures-from-protest-today/", "published_at": "2016-02-23T13:30:35+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbd8-5780-70f1-86ff-ba2125a7f570", "title": "More jobcentre recordings: We Can’t Help Disabled Claimants. Doesn’t bode well for people facing ESA cuts", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2016/02/more-jobcentre-recordings-we-cant-help-disabled-claimants-doesnt-bode-well-for-people-facing-esa-cuts/", "published_at": "2016-02-21T20:13:13+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbd8-5780-70f1-86ff-ba2126185985", "title": "The one where the council officer hangs up the phone on a homeless woman…", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2016/02/the-one-where-the-council-officer-hangs-up-the-phone-on-a-homeless-woman/", "published_at": "2016-02-17T12:50:28+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbd8-5780-70f1-86ff-ba212632dd4e", "title": "Wonder how many women in austerity worry about their kids being removed", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2016/02/wonder-how-many-women-in-austerity-worry-about-their-kids-being-removed/", "published_at": "2016-02-15T17:24:20+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbd8-5780-70f1-86ff-ba21269a554f", "title": "March against the housing bill: Saturday 30 January", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2016/01/march-against-the-housing-bill-saturday-30-january/", "published_at": "2016-01-29T12:24:19+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbd8-5780-70f1-86ff-ba212785d8c1", "title": "This is how you and your kids can expect to live if you lose your home", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2016/01/this-is-how-you-and-your-kids-can-expect-to-live-if-you-lose-your-home/", "published_at": "2016-01-24T13:19:28+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbd8-5780-70f1-86ff-ba2127e90c3d", "title": "Does austerity bring out the best or the worst in people? More case study transcripts", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2016/01/does-austerity-bring-out-the-best-or-the-worst-in-people-more-case-study-transcripts/", "published_at": "2016-01-10T16:04:10+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbdb-f6c8-72d6-a413-147d35b961e6", "title": "Back soonish", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2015/12/back-soonish/", "published_at": "2015-12-07T19:15:03+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbdb-f6c8-72d6-a413-147d3698c127", "title": "How disabled benefit claimants are being set up for sanctions", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2015/11/how-disabled-benefit-claimants-are-being-set-up-for-sanctions/", "published_at": "2015-11-30T12:51:22+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbdb-f6c8-72d6-a413-147d3733511d", "title": "Divide and rule for benefit claimants", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2015/11/divide-and-rule-for-benefit-claimants/", "published_at": "2015-11-24T10:27:51+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbdb-f6c8-72d6-a413-147d37e0e503", "title": "Take action against energy companies! I will. Southern Electric is ripping me off", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2015/11/take-action-against-energy-companies-i-will-southern-electric-is-getting-on-my-nerves/", "published_at": "2015-11-19T06:56:02+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbdb-f6c8-72d6-a413-147d388ec393", "title": "Police called because we were leafleting on the wrong part of the pavement", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2015/11/police-called-because-we-were-leafleting-on-the-wrong-part-of-the-pavement/", "published_at": "2015-11-18T17:44:50+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbdb-f6c8-72d6-a413-147d3985bd90", "title": "Very harsh system, this: mental health problems and found fit for work", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2015/11/very-harsh-system-this-mental-health-problems-and-found-fit-for-work/", "published_at": "2015-11-18T11:18:11+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbdb-f6c8-72d6-a413-147d3a08b11f", "title": "Exactly how far can the DWP cut an income?", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2015/11/exactly-how-far-can-the-dwp-cut-an-income/", "published_at": "2015-11-16T10:50:05+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbdb-f6c8-72d6-a413-147d3a3dec83", "title": "ANOTHER jobcentre says We Can’t Help or Support Disabled Benefit Claimants", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2015/11/another-jobcentre-says-we-cant-help-or-support-disabled-benefit-claimants/", "published_at": "2015-11-10T19:20:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbdb-f6c8-72d6-a413-147d3b03b4a7", "title": "Wonder when IDS will finish rubbing jobcentres into the ground", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2015/11/wonder-when-ids-will-finish-rubbing-jobcentres-into-the-ground/", "published_at": "2015-11-07T13:37:43+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbdb-f6c8-72d6-a413-147d3bd927c9", "title": "More about the DWP’s totally pointless You Must Attend The Jobcentre Every Day regime…", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2015/10/more-about-the-dwps-totally-pointless-you-must-attend-the-jobcentre-daily-routines/", "published_at": "2015-10-28T10:58:49+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbdf-7d94-72f0-ba7d-3b03b0c35600", "title": "More jobcentre recordings: We can’t help disabled claimants at this jobcentre. You’ll have to go elsewhere", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2015/10/more-jobcentre-recordings-we-cant-help-disabled-claimants-at-this-jobcentre-youll-have-to-go-elsewhere/", "published_at": "2015-10-26T10:40:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbdf-7d94-72f0-ba7d-3b03b0d1f5b8", "title": "Back soon", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2015/10/back-soon-9/", "published_at": "2015-10-20T09:05:53+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbdf-7d94-72f0-ba7d-3b03b198c6f8", "title": "Could someone from Brent Council please contact me? Hello?", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2015/10/could-someone-from-brent-council-please-contact-me-hello/", "published_at": "2015-10-14T20:40:59+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbdf-7d94-72f0-ba7d-3b03b27b90ad", "title": "Being treated well on workfare is a bonus. Not everybody gets that bonus.", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2015/10/being-treated-well-on-workfare-is-a-bonus-not-everybody-gets-that-bonus/", "published_at": "2015-10-12T11:08:34+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbdf-7d94-72f0-ba7d-3b03b2ef7774", "title": "Barnet council workers strike against privatisation 7 October 2015", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2015/10/barnet-council-workers-strike-against-privatisation-7-october-2015/", "published_at": "2015-10-07T00:51:03+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbdf-7d94-72f0-ba7d-3b03b3657243", "title": "Fighting Brent Council for rent in advance and a deposit for a disabled man’s flat", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2015/10/fighting-brent-council-for-rent-in-advance-and-a-deposit-for-a-disabled-man-housing/", "published_at": "2015-10-06T12:18:44+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbdf-7d94-72f0-ba7d-3b03b43332e6", "title": "Balls to Tory party conference….", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2015/09/balls-to-tory-party-conference/", "published_at": "2015-09-30T17:12:07+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbdf-7d94-72f0-ba7d-3b03b4ff3896", "title": "What’s the record for a wait for an ESA decision? Months? Years?", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2015/09/whats-the-record-for-a-wait-for-an-esa-decision-months-years/", "published_at": "2015-09-30T12:36:59+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbdf-7d94-72f0-ba7d-3b03b59d154a", "title": "What exactly is the point of the DWP’s jobsearch regime?", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2015/09/what-exactly-is-the-point-of-the-dwps-jobsearch-regime/", "published_at": "2015-09-28T15:58:46+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbdf-7d94-72f0-ba7d-3b03b5a41ba7", "title": "Barnet council workers to strike against privatisation 7 October 2015", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2015/09/barnet-council-workers-to-strike-against-privatisation-7-october-2015/", "published_at": "2015-09-24T12:14:02+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbe2-c974-71b2-9e24-0bf28f559acc", "title": "Another report from life on the arse end of DWP and G4S power trips", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2015/09/another-report-from-life-on-the-arse-end-of-dwp-and-g4s-power-trips/", "published_at": "2015-09-24T08:50:53+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbe2-c974-71b2-9e24-0bf28f92d69b", "title": "Sick with diabetes? Want to see your GP? Too bad. Get on the work programme. More jobcentre recordings", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2015/09/sick-with-diabetes-too-bad-get-on-the-work-programme-more-recordings-from-the-jobcentre/", "published_at": "2015-09-20T11:56:52+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbe2-c974-71b2-9e24-0bf2904c7565", "title": "Trying to find a job when you struggle to read and write", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2015/09/trying-to-find-a-job-when-you-struggle-to-read-and-write/", "published_at": "2015-09-18T09:30:41+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbe2-c974-71b2-9e24-0bf290ded6fd", "title": "Join the Focus E15 campaign this Saturday: March Against Evictions!", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2015/09/join-the-focus-e15-campaign-this-saturday-march-against-evictions/", "published_at": "2015-09-17T10:24:50+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbe2-c974-71b2-9e24-0bf29112570f", "title": "Back soon", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2015/09/back-soon-8/", "published_at": "2015-09-15T12:48:55+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbe2-c974-71b2-9e24-0bf2914ebfcd", "title": "Transcripts from the jobcentre: inside a Work Activities meeting for a man with learning difficulties", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2015/09/more-transcripts-from-the-jobcentre-inside-a-work-activities-type-meeting/", "published_at": "2015-09-08T10:50:25+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbe2-c974-71b2-9e24-0bf291eb3433", "title": "So again…what exactly is the planned end for people in poverty and serious debt?", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2015/09/so-again-what-exactly-is-the-planned-end-for-people-in-poverty-and-serious-debt/", "published_at": "2015-09-03T11:24:51+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbe2-c974-71b2-9e24-0bf292951fc3", "title": "Support Gabriel Pepper: protest for former ILF recipient facing a massive cut to care support", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2015/09/support-gabriel-pepper-protest-for-former-ilf-recipient-facing-a-massive-care-cut/", "published_at": "2015-09-01T10:54:54+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbe2-c974-71b2-9e24-0bf2930811fd", "title": "If government is so obsessed with “helping” disabled people, why did it close the Independent Living Fund?", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2015/08/if-government-is-so-obsessed-with-helping-disabled-people-why-did-it-close-the-independent-living-fund/", "published_at": "2015-08-25T13:06:52+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbe2-c974-71b2-9e24-0bf293bf261d", "title": "Back soon", "url": "https://www.katebelgrave.com/2015/08/back-soon-7/", "published_at": "2015-08-24T14:54:17+00:00" } ] posts Claim your blog
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2017

While we’re talking austerity, can anyone help with this question on Income Support, conditions and sanctionsoriginal ↗
14 Jun 2017
You don’t end austerity simply by announcing it’s over. You have to undo the damage that’s been doneoriginal ↗
13 Jun 2017
We consider you housed, because you have a grotty caravan to live in. This is austerity.original ↗
13 Jun 2017
Can real problems like homelessness get more than fleeting attention these days?original ↗
7 Jun 2017
Why we’re on strike: Eastern Avenue jobcentre staff out against jobcentre closuresoriginal ↗
2 Jun 2017
You don’t cure addiction by insisting that addicts are trashoriginal ↗
22 May 2017
Meanwhile in the real world… rent arrears and Universal Creditoriginal ↗
7 May 2017
Back in Juneoriginal ↗
1 May 2017
DWP: “Closing jobcentres will improve the service.” People who use jobcentres: “No it won’t”original ↗
24 Apr 2017
You can’t apply as homeless without an address. What.original ↗
20 Apr 2017
“Rich get richer and poor get poorer… The greed is becoming demented greed.” More views from people on benefitsoriginal ↗
10 Apr 2017
“Towards Work” activities to get a DHP and stayed housed. How big is conditionality going to get?original ↗
2 Apr 2017
Back soonoriginal ↗
31 Mar 2017
No heating or hot water, because no spare money for problems. This isn’t going to change, is itoriginal ↗
20 Mar 2017
DWP: We can’t attend a public meeting on a jobcentre closure because the meeting is public. BOLLOCKS.original ↗
17 Mar 2017
Homeless and placed in a neighbourhood where people think you’re a narkoriginal ↗
13 Mar 2017
More recordings: intentionally homeless if you’re evicted for benefit cap rent arrears…?original ↗
9 Mar 2017
The very personal information you must give in public if you need state helporiginal ↗
1 Mar 2017
AGES on hold with the DWP…original ↗
27 Feb 2017
Look at the state of this flat. Here is independence vs neglect in austerityoriginal ↗
26 Feb 2017
Benefit cap arrears and eviction threats for women and children. Already.original ↗
16 Feb 2017
More views outside the bubble: Hating the government, hating the left, and liking Brexitoriginal ↗
13 Feb 2017
Councils, housing associations and the DWP are crushing people with debtoriginal ↗
5 Feb 2017
Can’t use a computer, or read or write very well? Tough. No benefits for you.original ↗
29 Jan 2017
How the Universal Credit bureaucracy can screw your chance of paying rentoriginal ↗
22 Jan 2017
Doesn’t matter if you’re ex prison or drink or use or what the hell. Everyone deserves housingoriginal ↗
18 Jan 2017
“I stay away from my flat to avoid the bailiffs” – the joys of being hunted down for council taxoriginal ↗
10 Jan 2017
Back soonoriginal ↗
10 Jan 2017

2016

People who need help actively avoid seeking it now. Applying for benefits, housing, etc, is too torturousoriginal ↗
15 Dec 2016
About half the people who come to our foodbank are there because of benefit sanctions…original ↗
2 Dec 2016
Homelessness in a northern winter can’t be goodoriginal ↗
23 Nov 2016
Video: Don’t care what your health is like. You wait outside the jobcentre in the coldoriginal ↗
14 Nov 2016
Video: jobcentre tells a sick & disabled woman to climb stairs though she can’t. Fix this contempt, Mr Greenoriginal ↗
3 Nov 2016
You’re on benefits. How dare you enjoy a hamburger, a cigarette, a drink or a life?original ↗
25 Oct 2016
Authorities bully benefit claimants because they canoriginal ↗
13 Oct 2016
How long do you have to wait to get a PIP appeal hearing after requesting one…?original ↗
3 Oct 2016
TIME TO TAKE THE WHOLE BENEFITS CLAIM SYSTEM DOWN AND START AGAIN. This is mayhem. Seriously.original ↗
29 Sept 2016
Mental health, sanctions and a whole bunch of nothing. More stories from the jobcentre.original ↗
29 Sept 2016
Endless, endless disability assessments while support is destroyed. These assessments NEVER endoriginal ↗
23 Sept 2016
Homeless: avoid the coppers, find a B&B…original ↗
21 Sept 2016
Giving up on a PIP application – the useless application process is just too difficultoriginal ↗
15 Sept 2016
I can’t get benefits because I’m homeless and I haven’t got an address. Wtf is going on here.original ↗
7 Sept 2016
DWP to disabled man: We’re sticking with the Mandatory Reconsideration we did without you. No PIP for youoriginal ↗
31 Aug 2016
Ever tried to call a council or the DWP? People in need MUST be excluded by these hopeless systemsoriginal ↗
18 Aug 2016
Nobody believes anybody now, even on DV issues. More stories from the jobcentre.original ↗
15 Aug 2016
We’ve done your PIP review and turned you down again. Without involving you. Or somethingoriginal ↗
5 Aug 2016
The PIP assessment system is garbage. And dangerous.original ↗
26 Jul 2016
Video: jobcentre adviser says disability support is wrecked. Fix this, Mr Greenoriginal ↗
19 Jul 2016
#PIPFightBack: Day of Action Against PIP tomorrow Wednesday 13 Julyoriginal ↗
12 Jul 2016
How people are treated like garbage when they are trying to apply for PIPoriginal ↗
11 Jul 2016
The future will be wrecked for generations while women and little kids live like thisoriginal ↗
5 Jul 2016
While politicians amuse themselves, austerity continues rampant, etc…original ↗
30 Jun 2016
You’re the kind of immigrant that we wantoriginal ↗
30 Jun 2016
Sanctioned while waiting to be sanctionedoriginal ↗
10 Jun 2016
Making people wait to find out if they’ll be sanctioned is truly sickoriginal ↗
4 Jun 2016
Looking for hope or leadership and finding it only in Brexit. Isn’t much in evidence elsewhereoriginal ↗
15 May 2016
Placed miles away in temporary housing and can’t afford the commute to work? Too bad.original ↗
26 Apr 2016
Getting older and getting sanctioned. You think being young sucks.original ↗
17 Apr 2016
Back soonoriginal ↗
3 Apr 2016
Closed claims, lost housing benefit: how IDS contempt for sick or disabled claimants playedoriginal ↗
22 Mar 2016
How the DWP actively humiliates sick and disabled benefit claimants. More stories from the jobcentre.original ↗
18 Mar 2016
Sick and disabled and can’t walk upstairs to JSA signon? Too bad. Expect contemptoriginal ↗
15 Mar 2016
Video from roadblock protest against job coaches in GPs surgeries #DoNoHarmoriginal ↗
9 Mar 2016
#NoESAcut: pictures and video from protest todayoriginal ↗
23 Feb 2016
More jobcentre recordings: We Can’t Help Disabled Claimants. Doesn’t bode well for people facing ESA cutsoriginal ↗
21 Feb 2016
The one where the council officer hangs up the phone on a homeless woman…original ↗
17 Feb 2016
Wonder how many women in austerity worry about their kids being removedoriginal ↗
15 Feb 2016
March against the housing bill: Saturday 30 Januaryoriginal ↗
29 Jan 2016
This is how you and your kids can expect to live if you lose your homeoriginal ↗
24 Jan 2016
Does austerity bring out the best or the worst in people? More case study transcriptsoriginal ↗
10 Jan 2016

2015

Back soonishoriginal ↗
7 Dec 2015
How disabled benefit claimants are being set up for sanctionsoriginal ↗
30 Nov 2015
Divide and rule for benefit claimantsoriginal ↗
24 Nov 2015
Take action against energy companies! I will. Southern Electric is ripping me offoriginal ↗
19 Nov 2015
Police called because we were leafleting on the wrong part of the pavementoriginal ↗
18 Nov 2015
Very harsh system, this: mental health problems and found fit for workoriginal ↗
18 Nov 2015
Exactly how far can the DWP cut an income?original ↗
16 Nov 2015
ANOTHER jobcentre says We Can’t Help or Support Disabled Benefit Claimantsoriginal ↗
10 Nov 2015
Wonder when IDS will finish rubbing jobcentres into the groundoriginal ↗
7 Nov 2015
More about the DWP’s totally pointless You Must Attend The Jobcentre Every Day regime…original ↗
28 Oct 2015
More jobcentre recordings: We can’t help disabled claimants at this jobcentre. You’ll have to go elsewhereoriginal ↗
26 Oct 2015
Back soonoriginal ↗
20 Oct 2015
Could someone from Brent Council please contact me? Hello?original ↗
14 Oct 2015
Being treated well on workfare is a bonus. Not everybody gets that bonus.original ↗
12 Oct 2015
Barnet council workers strike against privatisation 7 October 2015original ↗
7 Oct 2015
Fighting Brent Council for rent in advance and a deposit for a disabled man’s flatoriginal ↗
6 Oct 2015
Balls to Tory party conference….original ↗
30 Sept 2015
What’s the record for a wait for an ESA decision? Months? Years?original ↗
30 Sept 2015
What exactly is the point of the DWP’s jobsearch regime?original ↗
28 Sept 2015
Barnet council workers to strike against privatisation 7 October 2015original ↗
24 Sept 2015
Another report from life on the arse end of DWP and G4S power tripsoriginal ↗
24 Sept 2015
Sick with diabetes? Want to see your GP? Too bad. Get on the work programme. More jobcentre recordingsoriginal ↗
20 Sept 2015
Trying to find a job when you struggle to read and writeoriginal ↗
18 Sept 2015
Join the Focus E15 campaign this Saturday: March Against Evictions!original ↗
17 Sept 2015
Back soonoriginal ↗
15 Sept 2015
Transcripts from the jobcentre: inside a Work Activities meeting for a man with learning difficultiesoriginal ↗
8 Sept 2015
So again…what exactly is the planned end for people in poverty and serious debt?original ↗
3 Sept 2015
Support Gabriel Pepper: protest for former ILF recipient facing a massive cut to care supportoriginal ↗
1 Sept 2015
If government is so obsessed with “helping” disabled people, why did it close the Independent Living Fund?original ↗
25 Aug 2015
Back soonoriginal ↗
24 Aug 2015
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