Making an appeal to the Social Security and Child Support tribunal

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HELP MAKE CHRIS GRAYLING MADHere’s an opportunity for you to help make a minister wish he hadn’t interfered.Back in March we wrote about the Ministry of Justice’s (MoJ) employment and support allowance appeals video (external link) on Youtube. The video was pulled after less than a week, on the orders of senior officials.Independent benefits expert Neil Bateman (external link), discovered that the video was taken down after employment minister Grayling emailed the ministry complaining about, amongst other things, the fact that it told claimants:

that they are twice as likely to win their appeal if they appear in person rather than having a paper hearing; that the DWP doesn’t normally send a representative to the hearing; to send additional evidence to the tribunal, when Grayling wants it sent to the DWP.

Yesterday, three months later, the video reappeared and, to their credit, after their initial panic MoJ officials seem to have left it unaltered. The video is actually reasonably informative and reassuring for people who have no previous experience of appeal tribunals.Normally, however, MoJ videos get very little attention – one has had just two views and few of the 120 videos on the MoJ channel gets more than a few hundred views. If Grayling hadn’t intervened this video would probably also have remained largely unseen. Now, however, we’re asking Benefits and Work newsletter readers to make it the most popular video the MoJ has ever produced. The current record holder has had 4,269 views and the ESA video currently stands at 1,063.So, please, make Grayling mad by taking a look at the video and passing the link on to anyone you think might benefit:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4L8EPHDjeqU (external link)

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HELP MAKE CHRIS GRAYLING MAD

Here’s an opportunity for you to help make a

minister wish he hadn’t interfered.

Back in March we wrote about the Ministry of Justice’s

(MoJ) employment and support

allowance appeals video

(external link) on Youtube.  The video was pulled

after less than a week, on the orders of senior

officials.

Independent benefits expert Neil

Bateman (external link),

discovered that the video was taken down after

employment minister Grayling emailed the

ministry complaining about, amongst other things, the

fact that it told claimants:

that

they are twice as likely to win their appeal if

they appear in person rather than having a paper

hearing;

that

the DWP doesn’t normally send a representative

to the hearing;

to

send additional evidence to the tribunal, when

Grayling wants it sent to the DWP.

Yesterday,

three months later, the video reappeared and, to

their credit, after their initial panic MoJ

officials seem to have left it unaltered.  The

video is actually reasonably informative and

reassuring for people who have no previous

experience of appeal tribunals.

Normally, however, MoJ videos get very little

attention – one has had just two views and few of

the 120 videos on the MoJ channel gets more than a

few hundred views.  

If Grayling hadn’t intervened this video would

probably also have remained largely unseen.  Now,

however, we’re asking Benefits and Work newsletter

readers to make it the most popular video the MoJ

has ever produced.  The current record holder has

had 4,269 views and the ESA video currently stands

at 1,063.

So, please, make Grayling mad by taking a look at

the video and passing the link on to anyone you

think might benefit:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4L8EPHDjeqU 

(external link)

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