I’m going to submit my claim for UC next week, I don’t want to wait any longer
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I did my claim by phone ☎️. For phone claims, you receive your statements by post ✉️📮.
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I really like the sound of physical statements on Universal Credit 👍, they’re a good idea imo. You don’t get them on ‘legacy benefits’. I think of them as a mini bank 🏦 statement 🤣😂.
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Chris, have you asked Scope if they could make reasonable adjustments for you?
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Is that even possible? 🤔🤨
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Only if you ask 😉
They could make an exception for you. Why not?
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@Community_Scope - is it possible to make reasonable adjustments for me? 🤔
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Send Scope your message via the envelope icon but you may not get an answer immediately. I hope they can do this.
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What’s your opinion on this @WhatThe, ‘unnecessary reassessments’ on PIP? 🤔💭🤨
I’ll be living off Universal Credit in a few weeks’ time but I also get Personal Independence Payment. I get the maximum amount of money, £737.20. That’s made up of the enhanced rate for daily living and the enhanced rate for mobility. I deserve every penny that I get, I am severely autistic and my needs will never get improve. I’ve had my diagnosis since the age of 3, I turned 30 in November 2024.
What bugs me with PIP is the ‘reassessments’.
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You shouldn’t have to keep repeating yourself to PIP every few years. My next review is still some way off, not until March 2027. My last review was completed in March last year (2024). It’s just annoying that I’ll have to say the same information ℹ️ that PIP already know about me in 2027. @WhatThe
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On Disability Living Allowance @WhatThe, I wasn’t getting the maximum award. For the ‘care component’, I was getting the middle rate and for the ‘mobility component’ I was getting the lower rate. That obviously wasn’t as good as what I’m getting on PIP nowadays but I did like the fact that my DLA award was ‘indefinite’. 👍
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IMO, Personal Independence Payment needs to change @WhatThe.
Those with long-term/lifelong conditions shouldn’t be put through the stress of reassessments every few years. If your condition isn’t going to improve, why be reassessed like every 3 years for example? It’s ridiculous.
I’m sure it’ll cost the Department for Work & Pensions a lot of money to keep reassessing these people whose conditions will never see any improvement.
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I hope this Labour government don’t scrape the LCRWA group on Universal Credit 😡😤. They can’t make someone work if they’re not capable 😡😤. The world of work wouldn’t be for me… at all. I have never worked in my life.
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If it was the government’s choice, I’m sure they’d have every disabled person working 😡😤.
Us disabled don’t get the respect we deserve from MPs just because we don’t work for a living. The disabled are still part of society, even if it feels like to MPs we don’t contribute as much 😡😤.The rich should be targeted more, tax them more! They should leave disabled people’s income alone 😡😤.
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UC was meant to "simplify the system" by rolling six benefits into one but there's nothing simple about it, is there?
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Universal Credit has a ‘world of work’ design. By default, you get paid monthly but I won’t be getting just a single payment per month for my claim @WhatThe.
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I requested something called an ‘Alternative Payment Arrangement’ and that request was granted @WhatThe ☺️.
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I’ll be getting two payments per month instead of just one. I asked for ‘twice monthly’ payments because there’s no way I’d be able to comfortably live off a monthly frequency. @WhatThe
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From the ESA Support Group, I was getting paid £318.10 every two weeks. @WhatThe
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I’m going to be financially better off on Universal Credit @WhatThe but I wasn’t going to accept monthly payments when I can’t budget.
For my claim, the payment frequency was just as important as the overall entitlement.
If you can’t budget, you can’t budget. They can’t make you budget.
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Chris, I never understood why DWP caused me so much misery with repeated assessments - which I had to appeal every time - followed by fretting until my benefits were reinstated..
It's clear to me that we keep them in work so we add value to the economy. Nobody should be made to feel guilty for being unable to support themselves.
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