DWP issues major update on scrapping work capability assessment for Universal Credit claimants

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/uk-news/dwp-issues-major-update-scrapping-34053247

Our Access to Benefits Assistance tool now has a complete set: #UniversalCredit #PIP #DLA

Please let us know what other #benefits you are struggling to access and we will take a look at making it easier. Have you used our tool to apply for a benefit yet?

https://www.accesstobenefitsassistance.com

#tessolari #a2ba #accessibility

Access to Benefits Assistance (A2BA)

Free, plain-English help to prepare UK benefits claims — PIP, Universal Credit and more. Everything stays on your device.

Access to Benefits Assistance (A2BA)

After a lot of head-scratching trying to include SciPy as a module in a Flatpak, I wrote (kinda, check the disclaimer) a python package to help with this process, inspired by the Flatpak Pip Generator. The idea here is to provide as much information as possible to test the inclusion of the module without having to test the entire Flatpak build.

https://github.com/kriptolix/pfmg

#flatpak #python #pip

GitHub - kriptolix/pfmg

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GitHub

DWP confirms full list of 86 musculoskeletal and arthritis conditions that qualify for £114 weekly payment

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/cost-of-living/dwp-confirms-full-list-86-34031890

It's always important to have a consistent #security policy.

For example, a policy of "If somebody filed a CVE, it's an important security issue, and we will fix it as such, no matter how meaningless the fix is. If nobody did, it's just a glorified bug fix, no matter how serious the bug was."

So we've just seen a #pip security release over "installing random packages can overwrite pip's files and pip can lazy-import some of them immediately afterwards", with a fix of "pip will no longer load them until you run it again" (leaving the underlying security issue of "any #Python package can override files installed by any other Python package" as intended behavior). As Eli Schwartz beautifully put it, you are not expected to be using the virtual environment; you should create it, install packages into it (at most once!), and then frame it and put it on the wall to admire.

Now we're seeing a "bug fix" for "malicious entry point names can write outside of virtual environment". If nobody filed a CVE, it's obviously not a security issue at all. At least upstream graced us with fixing it without correcting the spec to forbid that first.

https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/14000

Reject entry point names that escape scripts dir by notatallshaw · Pull Request #14000 · pypa/pip

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GitHub
Government faces legal action after claimant is refused entry to PIP tribunal because of his assistance dog

A disabled man plans to take legal action against the Ministry of Justice after his benefit tribunal hearing had to be postponed when a judge banned him from bringing in his assistance dog. Thomas …

Disability News Service

🚨 NEWS: Installazione Ambiente Python con pyenv, venv e pip - Guida Definitiva

Ecco i punti chiave in breve:
💡 Configurare un ambiente di sviluppo Python robusto e riproducibile è il fondamento di ogni progetto software di successo. Senza un controllo preciso delle versioni di Python e delle dipendenze, si ris...

🚀 LINK: https://meteoraweb.com/analisi-dei-dati-e-metriche/installazione-ambiente-python-con-pyenv-venv-e-pip-guida-definitiva

#pyenv #venv #pip #pythonAmbiente #gestioneVersioniPython

“The UK government has a clear chance to fix this now. Ending reassessments and introducing lifetime awards for people with terminal and progressive, life-limiting conditions would create a fairer, more compassionate system that treats people with dignity.”

#PIP #UK_Politics

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/pip-benefit-timms-review-disability-dwp-terminal-illness-b2984596.html

Stop forcing terminally ill benefit claimants to prove illness, leading charities urge

Exclusive: The current system is ‘simply wrong’, more than 30 organisations write

The Independent

DWP confirms full list of 8 infectious diseases that qualify for £114 weekly payment

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/cost-of-living/dwp-list-infectious-diseases-benefit-33996151