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that didn’t happen in my case , she concentrated on getting in the bath and washing below the waist . I now know why. She also switched how far I can walk to how long for in minutes. My conditions fluctuate throughout the day and pain moves so one day I’m in agony with one arm then it moves to the other etc . It’s difficult answering questions when my symptoms change every day
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Morning everybody, after 2 hrs sleep last night I needed to get my finger out, figuratively speaking 🤣. So I've emailed Keir Starmer, Rachel Reeves, Lucy Powell, Angela Rayner, Liz Kendall, Lisa Nandy, Wes Streeting Diane Abbott, Hillary Benn, John McConnell, Jeremy Corbyn, Stephen Kinnock, Andrew Cooper, Yvette Cooper, Annaliese Dodds, Vicky Foxcroft, David Lammy, Ed Milliband. It's took hrs as had to do from my phone can't get on email on my PC 😬 had to resend to quite a few as received alternative email addresses off some at Westminster not constituency 🙄
Wasn't rude but I didn't pull any punches. It wasn't anonymously sent and in part possibly brazen - stating I wont be clicking any tick box 'Accepting Work Commitments ' on UC as I've not embellished, exaggerated or been dishonest about my health conditions and I don't intend starting now. Was a bit 'War and Peace' but I've had to live through my story so so can they.
I don't expect to hear back, if ever but especially today as I expect they won't see the email as they'll be busy in conflab working out the announcement tomorrow and probably more important things to do 🤭🙄. I saw earlier on here someone kindly shared something on at 2.15pm on BBC Parliament today so I'll try and watch that. I do hope everyone is OK. I've emailed Scope for James Taylors email address as ideas to put to him re Equality Act etc.
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Coverage of questions, house of commons Liz Kendall . 2.30pm. BBC Parliament TV. Freeview channel 232. If anybody is interested
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Think this one will go to the wire. They’ll be tinkering with changes until tomorrow..and I think likely be watered down? Makes you wonder what the original version was like.😳 I’ll never vote for this shower of bandits again, they bear no resemblance to a Labour Party and indeed no resemblance to any ‘centre left’ party in the world.
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So is ManFromLondon correct and Basic not lcwra is what they Meant when talking Reduction?
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So will be be reassessed or not??
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We don't have that answer @tcellmutation unfortunately. It's speculation currently.
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she needs to back to customer complaints, those phones won’t answer themselves.
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I thought they were reducing lcwra and increasing basic rate . Then elsewhere I read there won’t be wca so no lcwra . We all have to engage and it’s to the work coach to decide how much we are capable of . This of course can’t be legal or safe as even assessors need some medical knowledge if I’m right. Not only that but if they’re forcing sick ppl to engage with work but cut our money we will surely just be placed on basic rate as looking for work and get the higher rate then . So where the savings be ? Hope that makes sense .
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They're certainly not Labour Party I joined and paid into. I want a refund! Labour isn't socialist or vaguely social-democratic now. They are well to the right of Thatcher's "wets". I think you're correct. There'll be more tinkering after Oral Questions in the House this afternoon.
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I can't listen to that women speak, if my tv wasn't so new i'd have thrown my cup of coffee at it yesterday, but price of coffee is too expensive too so I just sat and fumed at her horrible grating daleck voice. Is she even human , iv'e heard shes from the planet Skaro where the dalecks are from……..exterminate(disabled people probably)🤣
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😂 Remember when they first got in and they were accepting freebies right , left and centre! Showing off their new outfits in press shoots and taking tickets to concerts and footie matches. We should have known what was going to happen…!
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if they make me attend a job centre to see a work coach I will probably have to crawl on the floor and end up in hospital.
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Does anyone know if Poppy12345 is still a member on here?
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I think maybe they do for PIP.
I thought you were talking about being reviewed for LCWRA, as on my award letter for LCWRA it has no review date, it just says we may ask you to attend another work capability assessment in the future.
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all 3 psychopaths . Starmer definitely. His behind this mr flip flop persona and ppl fell for it . Once in office the real him came out . No empathy or personality. The other two just joined the wrong party , guess the Tory’s didn’t want them .
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It's like on the one hand they think mental health is important, and then on the other it's like they think mental health is nothing.
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I have a UC claim review this Thursday via phone; you'll likely get one at some point.
Had to send in 4 months of bank statements
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I scored 2 points on all of the proposed description changes for pip, 8 for engagement - my review was sent off in spring last year, I got a letter saying that they were extending my reward until March 2026 because they were still collecting evidence or whatever it was - am I right in thinking that actually they have done this to wait for the changes to come into effect and take aaay my award completely? I haven’t eaten in days, I haven’t slept. I haven’t moved out of bed. I’ve lost hours of time dissociated I’ve done nothing but ruminate - I will not, will not be able to cope, I honestly feel like I may aswell just end it now and save myself the stress and the government their money so as to not be seen as a leech to society.
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