Upcoming changes to benefits

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  • luvpink
    luvpink Online Community Member Posts: 1,389 Trailblazing
  • secretsquirrel1
    secretsquirrel1 Online Community Member Posts: 444 Pioneering

    I don’t think I have yet but my reviews due next year so I could receive my form anytime .

  • Kimmy87
    Kimmy87 Online Community Member Posts: 4,059 Championing
    edited March 13

    They mean the annual benefit increase letter.

  • secretsquirrel1
    secretsquirrel1 Online Community Member Posts: 444 Pioneering

    mind you I heard they’ve been employing more case managers and doing assessments on paper if they have enough evidence. Surely they wouldn’t of started that if they intended to stop or change pip criteria to make it even harder to claim .

  • HollisMcBobbery
    HollisMcBobbery Online Community Member Posts: 18 Contributor

    I totally empathise with what you've said. I'm a bit older and was diagnosed with mental health based illnesses 20 years ago at the age of 16. None of my diagnoses have ever been considered lifelong even though they still effect me now. The support quite frankly over the years has been a joke, its just constant CBT. I have worked for periods but not consistently. I was also caught up in the Osbourne LCW shafting at the time.

    The whole thing is a ridiculous mess which they just want to make even worse.

    I do think it's very unfair for media/ politicians to target particular blame at mental health conditions/ young people regarding claim rises. I think this misery island is just making people more ill!

  • anisty
    anisty Online Community Member Posts: 627 Pioneering

    Apologies - you have not understood what i was trying to say at all there. My fault for not putting it across well at all.

    I do NOT think anyone at all consciously sits down as a teenager and thinks "life's hard. I am anxious. I am going to stay in my bedroom for years"

    And i KNOW life is hard for young people. I have a 17yr old that took an overdose and a 22yr old on anti depressants. My use of 'sign off from life's responsibilities' came across as flippant and i am sorry about that.

    But, with the right support, there must be so many young people who can be put back on track before they reach crisis point.

    Some illness and disability in our young folk (i think) must be worsened by socio-economic factors which leads to failure in education, lowered self-esteem, mental health issues and then the withdrawl from the very activities that can improve mental health.

    I do know it is absolutely impossible to work when in mental health crisis (and i myself had a severe psychosis in my 20s and needed ECT)

    If you read to the end of my post, you'll see we are on the same page - i did say i can't see them stripping benefits off existing claimants and they need to get these teens on track.

    Finally, nothing in my post was aimed at you personally or anyone on the forum. I don't know you at all.

    I hope your current difficulties are not life long and you can recover. All the best.

  • mangomungo
    mangomungo Online Community Member Posts: 164 Empowering

    No need to apologise - I’ve seen a lot of arguments of mental health vs physical illness recently so it’s a bit of a touchy subject but thank you for clarifying! And I’m sorry to hear about the struggles you and your children have faced/are facing.

    I definitely agree with you that there are teens out there that need interventions and I hope they do get the help they need and early help before it becomes a life long issue, it’s a sad state of affairs for a lot of young people and the current state of the country especially after covid can’t be helping and I do agree that a lot could go on to live fulfilling lives with the right support.
    Absolutely no animosity towards you at all - I just wanted to put things across from my perspective as someone that’s had experience as a young person on benefits. But I appreciate your comment all the best to you as well :)

  • JonnycJonny
    JonnycJonny Scope Member Posts: 245 Empowering

    I usually get the ESA annual up rating letter before the PIP one arrives. No cause for alarm if you haven't got it yet & no need whatsoever to call the DWP about it.

  • Ranald
    Ranald Online Community Member Posts: 760 Championing
    edited March 14

    I pretty much wouldn't call the DWP unless I had to. I have only learned since being here, that the call handlers aren't well trained, only reading from a screen.

  • michael57
    michael57 Online Community Member Posts: 1,109 Championing

    had one delivered yesterday

  • Catherine21
    Catherine21 Posts: 4,288 Championing

    II'm on waiting list for adhd assessment and the goverment stopped funding for some also what disturbed me was starmer quoted saying I will cut all red tape that stops me can he change laws quicker

  • secretsquirrel1
    secretsquirrel1 Online Community Member Posts: 444 Pioneering

    yes I know but I took you meant have we received it or are they waiting to see what changes they makes first ? I think I also received ESA letter but don’t think pip so far . I hadn’t even thought about it tbh . Do you think it’s a bit suspicious ?

  • secretsquirrel1
    secretsquirrel1 Online Community Member Posts: 444 Pioneering

    no it was me Bambi . I understood what you meant but just expected you would understand me . I think they’re making us all second guess everything as we don’t know what our future holds and we haven’t since last year .

  • secretsquirrel1
    secretsquirrel1 Online Community Member Posts: 444 Pioneering

    Starmer isn’t above the law and from what I read this morning in the msm there are members of the cabinet that don’t agree to the cuts either . Whether it’s true or not I don’t know but if it is let’s hope he listens for once ., even if it’ll only be to save his own skin .

  • secretsquirrel1
    secretsquirrel1 Online Community Member Posts: 444 Pioneering

    I too read that , also that members of the cabinet don’t agree to cuts . MSM so not sure if it’s true though

  • secretsquirrel1
    secretsquirrel1 Online Community Member Posts: 444 Pioneering

    me too and daily express 😂. According to them members of cabinet are against cuts so let’s see if it’s in other news today . It will be good if it’s true .

  • Stellar
    Stellar Online Community Member Posts: 209 Empowering

    Are Scope also going to boost calls for in-person protests and othe forms of direct action? Sorry not sorry but letter writing campaigns are completely ineffective by themselves, and need supplementing with other strategies. The reason why things in the UK have gotten so bad are because British people won't engage in politics properly. Politics is about power and strategy, not facts. If your power and strategy is ****, you lose.

    On a related note, this quote from a recent DNS article sums everything up:

    “I think we have to turn our anger into action, into organising disabled people, people in mental distress, against the cuts, against new austerity, and against these attacks on our benefits.”

    Harrison said he believed disabled people could defeat the planned cuts “because people wanted change after 14 years of Tory rule and Tory austerity and Tory attacks on disabled people. And, you know, people didn’t vote for this.

    “So we’re all angry, but we do need to get even. We do need to organise.”

    We can force government to back down over benefit cuts ‘if we turn anger into action’, say activists – Disability News Service

  • evelyncourtney
    evelyncourtney Online Community Member Posts: 64 Empowering

    Don’t worry — the PIP rates have already been set for this upcoming year (2025/26) and so they won’t be changed regardless of what the govt announces next week. (I don’t know if they can even legally do that — someone correct me if I’m wrong!)

    Regardless of what changes they make in the future, they’re not waiting to see what they are right now before issuing the new statements with this year’s increased rates, because this year’s rates have been set now. They will just be taking their time going through the system, getting sent out etc.

    I hope that settles your mind with that at least :)

  • Moorgater
    Moorgater Online Community Member Posts: 63 Empowering

    Bloomberg reported yesterday that 'over half' the cabinet were opposed to spending cuts. They are usually quite good on these things. I've heard the Mail On Sunday had the story first but can't confirm.

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