Pip and if they decide on means testing it ?
personally if they means test this I will be buggered as my partner has savings/assets through his work . For me it’s about having a disability and not feeling like a burden and receiving money in my own right , so I feel like I am contributing . If they means test it I will loose any money I get and will receive nothing. I will then feel like the burden I have always felt even in receipt of pip and totally be reliant on my husband and then he has the burden of providing completely on him . Is that why they are considering the choosing the right to die bill, so disabled people take their own life’s ? Because if they make this a thing I may as well kill myself now as I don’t want to be a burden to my family or to society and receiving this benefit makes me feel less of a burden ! Does that make sense ! ? Don’t worry I am not suicidal but can see it happening if this is made a thing or peoples thoughts going there ?! For me it is about spending the pip on things which are needed to support my health/disability without the extra cost being on others in the family. Disabled people should not be penalised if family/partners have savings/assets. If disabled people have to be reliant on those people surely it would rise in domestic abuse and being financially abused because your completely reliant on your family/ partners?!? Thoughts ?!?
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