The official 2024 budget discussion.
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Why don't they just concentrate on getting one thing finished before starting another. So many people waiting still to move from DLA to PIP and I imagine most of those would be better off on PIP.
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They should do , leave moving esa to UC back to 28 ,29. They still sending esa renewal forms out . Yet I'm waiting 11 months for mine to be done. No wonder they make mistakes . They aren't trained they have no feelings and they will not understand our complex health conditions. Just use a checklist .
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Fearful people are easy to control, they want us living in constant fear , it is one thing after another .
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Yes thier really ramping up the pressure so hard it to be I know I shouldn't engage I feel more oppressed vulnerable under labour never thought that would be possible me personally I cannot see any good they have done
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it's the DWP who have never ONCE hit a target ever, who haven't managed to complete DLA to PIP in 10 years!
there's 943,000 approx to move across that's a crazy 2,000 ish a day, it's absolutely not going to happen in even double that ridiculous timeframe.
from past dwp bull in a china shop behaviour this is what will happen.
in February they'll post out 63,000 letters, by March they'll have ballsed up at least 40% of them, in March they'll post out a further 63,000 and by April they will have caused such a backlog and loss of staff through that absolutely mad target that it will be paused for months or booted back to 2028.
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Oh if they put back would be a dream I was happy when I heard Stephen timms but what a let down he's been hope your well
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I defended him originally but I now believe as others have said he's just another waste of space.
I'm ok thanks, hope you are X
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I agree I'm good thanks wide awake ⏰️ x
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in my short life i have yet to meet a poor farmer only bad business decisions now if the government stopped all the subsidies paid to them ie compensation for tb reactors the hedge cutting blah blah endless list subsidies farmers may address there own problems and rectify them
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I've had a similar wait Andi, sent mine in April, only to be told by someone from Basildon (doing the fraud sweep of us all) that it hadn't been returned in time. Very luckily I'd sent it signed on delivery + knew that wasn't right. Looked like they were going to slash my benefits and in the end I tracked down the assessment company + phoned them up. They gave me some rubbish about it being returned late, wouldn't take anything I said as evidence + said they'd notify DWP directly to cancel my LCW benefit (I still had it as pushed onto UC from ESA). I immediately made a complaint to UC + very luckily complaints office took up my case + stopped the cancellation of benefits. Still waiting for a decision on the complaint + the health assessment. But complaints office told me the assessment is taken by a number of private companies, Maximus + Serco being 2 of them, your health questionnaire is passed around between them all, sometimes gets lost + then recorded as not having returned your form in time, or not returned at all, + you get taken off the benefit! Unbelievable. I'd advise everyone waiting for a long time to check up, make sure they haven't done the same to you. I put the assessment center's address (on the top of the letter that came with the WCA form) into google + found the phone num to ring. I'll put another thread up warning everyone returning these forms, you must send them signed on delivery or you don't have a leg to stand on if they say it arrived late.
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After my last pip interrogation I collapsed, and for months after was paranoid, I swore my house was bugged. The "assessor" was a v junior nurse, she would not listen to a word, she replied back each time with her slant on my answers, if I said ten feet she'd reply "so ten meters". I corrected her so many times.. she asked if I used my mobile to call my mum,I said she's here every day I've no need to, I rarely if ever use it, as my sister sees to everything. She replied "Well, your speaking to me now".
Now where the heck do you go with that nonsense.? I was really getting more and more annoyed. I thought "you are deliberately being obtuse."
Almost two hrs later I was exhausted, frazzled, had one mother of a migraine, and the panic and paranoia were immeasurable.
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Awful isn't it 2016 was worst for me she was integrating me my teeth started chattering with fear couldn't stop oh she was horrid anyway report came back all lies I hit the roof literally had breakdown I was calling esa screaming at them calling them killers the lot writing complaint after complaint things I said I didn't care the rage called her names even told my doctor if I knew where she lived was horrendous after all that I stayed in bed like a zombie evil
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And totally understand the paranoia
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@Catherine21 The lies on my three pip reports were pathetic.couldn't even get my age right.. said I was35 I was 50. My daughter cared for me.. did she? Don't have one! Dont have any human children. .
On my first pip report my sister and i counted 43 lies ,mistruths,or whatever you'd prefer to call them. They ruin lives, I've had no peace since being forced from indefinite dla to pip. My mind never settles. What a life it would be free from the benefits system. I wish I could work. I've far too many health conditions, life's a struggle daily. X
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Honestly it's a cruel system but didn't relize the goodness of no contact with job centre fear on uc will we will have too wow I'm sure they get all reports mixed up 43 lies I'm not shocked anymore about DWP I think most of us have ptsd from the treatment and immense stress I dream of winning postcode lottery I wish I could work now checking everything and people think our lives good they wouldn't survive a day
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People who know me, genuinely know me, admit they couldn't of survived what I have, even my GP says I've been through more than most will ever see.
they certainly wouldn't survive in the shoes of many others here either.
a step onto planet earth and a fresh inhalation of the breeze of reality wouldn't hurt them occasionally.
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@Doglover2 I remember my 2019 review, apparently I didn't have mental health conditions anymore despite having no treatment because what I have tried hasn't helped, he tried to make it all about my fibromyalgia, excuse used all the way through was "the claimant did not report significant functional problems with this activity either on their questionnaire or at consultation, there was no evidence to suggest otherwise" and used no specialist input, and no medication as excuses as well. Both the DWP and the HCP were told why I don't have treatment or medication.
A GPFR was requested by the CM but because Capita messed up and requested it from my previous medical centre which there was no excuse for and which they accidently admitted when they responded to my complaint which gave me more to be angry at them about, it took them 2 months to request it from my current medical centre by which time my award was ending so the case manager in her infinite wisdom after disputing the report went a long with it and lowered my points. MR obviously failed, it was overturned at the appeal stage without having a tribunal, but they still wouldn't acknowledge that I cannot engage with people properly which I received 8 points for originally, they claimed I spoke to the HCP fine.. which was a load of rubbish because I had a panic attack and disassociated, as someone who was abducted by a paedo and endured other forms of abuse as a child and adult including emotional neglect as a child, I am not comfortable with people, I struggle to be around them and to talk to them, this was a male HCP, I'm worse with men and how do they know how I spoke to the HCP, they weren't there!
I have my next review now and it's made me really weary but this time I made sure everything relevant was mentioned as previously Welfare Rights filled out my form and hardly put any info on it which Welfare Rights were trying to make stupid excuses for.
I also had issues with my ESA review in 2021, they kept booking me appointments with a man when I'd asked for a woman, they did it 6 times, so when I complained they allowed me to do a new ESA50 because the one they had was 4 years old and Fightback had filled that in poorly, so I did it with the help of my son, advocate, Welfare Rights and a guide, Welfare Rights were actually useful that time and pointed out descriptors that I'd fit. When my son sent it in via email for me, they requested a GPFR and gave me a paperbased assessment and moved me to SG.
My migration from ESA to UC was perfectly fine and went smoothly.
Excuse the rant, but I find the DWP and assessment companies as well as the medical centre and local council all make my anxiety and depression worse because they cause me nothing but stress, people with various conditions shouldn't be put through this rubbish.
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GB cannot be fully self-sufficient in its agricultural products.
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I can understand why you feel this way I'm so sorry for your suffering xx
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30 years at the mercy of these people and I've seen it all get harder and harder to negotiate. I didn't ask for or want this life. I know none of us did. Its a daily battle of the mind not to let them bring me to new lows,but I'm afraid they are winning.
Wca assessments,Dla,then pip assessments, Tribunals MRs, mountains of consultants ,physio, OT, MH ,GP evidence. Repeating repeating repeating yourself until you can barely stand the sound of your own voice.
I defy them to tell us they don't make our MH 100,nay a 1000 times worse.
I won't even look out of my window anymore incase they see me and think I'm enjoying watching the birds. Nor will I answer my door. I can't even pick up my own mail from the post box,my sister has to do it then read it for me. The sound of the postman panics me, i feel relief when he passes by,I'm a shell ,nothing more . It's an existence, not a life in any shape or form.
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