The official 2024 budget discussion.
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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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i have never said the uk was or could be self sufficient i was stating the fact of farmers getting subsidies from the government and the eu and compensation jeremy clarkson has racked in £250,000 in such payments alone and his side kick purchased a few cows and put them in the neighbours herd and lost them due to tb people chipped in to help him overcome the financial loss when in fact the government paid him compensation the last farm i myself was a herdsperson on milked 180 cows on 1500 acres rented and run by 4 brothers they made enough money to purchase 4 rather large houses to retire to when they pass the tenancy to there sons
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They forced people onto uc for moving house. That was done to save money and put people into poverty. How they got away with that legally I don't know!
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It's my fav movie too. I adore The wizard of Oz.
But nothing except for Dogs brings me Joy.
I feel so miserable and low.
Love and luck to us all x
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It was always going to be a disaster because uc isn't designed for esa claimants, it's a job seekers benefit.
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It increases every year in April. The council in my case already know as they write and tell me they've readjusted the rent.
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This is the problem
The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) is the first international,legally bindinginstrument setting minimum standards for …
The CRPD however isnot legally binding in the UK until it is incorporated into domestic law).
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That is why they wish to move everyone onto it. Same for those of legacy benefits that are ending.
It's a slow dismantle of the healthcare benefit system.
People don't want to believe it but that's the agenda
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It's only income based, not contribution based. So I wonder why they've decided on that group.
Unless it's that group first, then contribution based will be after.
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It shouldn't be allowed but it was a practice used in Nazi Germany where clinicians working for them gathered health records of those with disabilities and sorted out who could work and who couldn't
They killed all the disabled who were economically inactive.
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British do not like EU or United Nations but they are there to protect citizens from government abuse.
America has not signed up to UNCDR either. Those that have and incorporated it into domestic laws would not be treated in such a way not without consequences.
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I wonder what's happening with the assisted sucide bill it's I'mporant to monitor suchbthings because like in Candad it's starts with only terminally ill then soon expands
Safeguarding has failed.
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Well from what I've read they are not ruling out Contribution based ESA at a later time as they have a lot to sort out moving income based in to the UC .I was hoping the budget would give some clarity but now we have to wait for The White Paper not that I think that will give much clarity
It's all pretty clock and dagger other than the overall attitude of wishing to dismantle it and make it a department of work
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Which is contributing esa one pls
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