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Thankyou so much for your kindness and your reply Sarah.
I am so sorry with all you are going through, really hoping everything works out with the grant and I've a feeling you will be fine with your PIP.
Keeping my fingers crossed for you. Xxxx
Really appreciate your kind words and you taking the time to reply.
Xxxxx
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You are kind too , and thank you. We are all struggling so much with various problems , but here we can share and lift each other up , I hope you are feeling better I hate to hear people so upset we shouldn't be x
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UC pays claimants' housing costs and pays a personal allowance. Making a new claim is scary and distressing for many of us but engaging with them is the only way to secure future benefits.
We have to spend less when our income is reduced and adapt to survive. It doesn't mean penury, it just means not having everything we want or everything we got used to having.
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I feel slightly reassured that ADP might not feel the impacts initially, but I'm still feeling pretty vulnerable to attack, 17 years away from 67!
It will be very interesting to see how my age group, with, in my case a 15 year employment gap, how we are treated. Good luck papering over that, Mr 22 yo 'work coach'.
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Yes I'm 52 and doubt I will get anywhere near state pension age but its reassuring for the older members amongst us.
“In keeping with existing policy, people of State Pension Age are not routinely fully reviewed and will not be affected by the proposed changes.”
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What do you mean by 'get anywhere near state pension age'? They aren't planning to do away with us all, are they? ;-)
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No I mean I have stopped worrying about all of the changes to be honest. If I lose my pip and uc health element after migration, then I am ok to just wither away at home alone. Theres no way I could jump through the hoops of the job centre and looking for work and I have no partner or children so wouldn't be missed by many. Sad I know, but I've accepted my fate and in one way it will be a relief. I won't stop fighting for others though as I know other people will be worried sick so I will do all I can to make our voices heard.
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I still wouldn't be surprised if alot of this is watered down. Disabled living is just too expensive to slash 2/3 off our benefits. There will be a mass handing back of Motability cars for one thing, and a scooter (2 in my case - class 3 and car boot) cost alot to maintain, too.
We shouldn't complain, though, as life needs a bit of excitement in it, or what's the point? Lol.
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Hats off.
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Morning everyone,
Damning report from Amnesty International in the Mirror today regarding the welfare system.
On a brighter note as I needed a laugh Angela Rayner just came 4th in most beautiful women in the country ( daily express) , though it was polled by something called illicit encounters 😂.2 -
Just hearing the Nigel Farage is saying too many people are being diagnosed with MH autism and adhd, everyone has it in for us, I hope next election he don’t get in
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I've donated too the reality of what can become is unbearable
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What are your ideas on where to write other than to deputies?
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I know thier all on the same agenda i don't even want to get out of bed how are you hope your well
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Maybe the illicit part starmer Mr Ali trying to boost her shattered ego I remember her in an interview and her mum called all staged her mum who has bipolar yh right
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I realise that in its infancy SCOPE along with many others that were set up by the Government were actually held back. Scope I believe were aslo involved with Remploy a company that was set up to find "disabled" and long term sick people, work, but as you may or may not know because of the Acts and Laws governing re-employment of this group they stiffled the needs of them and made it harder to employ them by the need of adaptions to get them employed for safe access and regress to work, and also the need for them to be "shadowed" while at work by "champions" that would look after them while on the premesis.
This is where we are now, since they have to log in like everyone else while there, and in case of a Fire, or practice drill for evacuation, these champions were the first to go into action to make sure they were able to evacuate in a timely maner, and safely.
The government on paper are supposed to do this anyway, and employers were also given a subsady to employ so many disabled people, but bec ause of changes to the referendum and the increase of things like buisness rates and adaptions some employees could not afford the adaptions.
Scope is charity run, so you would think with what Scope actually do this would be the first thing the government would assist in. YES, there is a budget for adaptions to both work and home, but this budget instead of being increased by the numbers claiming Disability Benefits is being CUT?
This latest thing with the Green Paper is a classic example of work manipulation, where the budget for disabled is given, BUT, now is including people who have been on the Dole for a long time and abandonded, and those that are long term sick by saying work is good for "people" and does according to their surveys say they will do everything to get "people" back into work by increasing the BASIC LIVING WAGE.
but why were we left behind knowing that the cost of living as a disabled person is around £950?
How do you equate, the cost of living rise to us as "Non-working people that may not be able to work, yet are DISABLED 24/7, while others of working age or not, still get all the benefits with out the needs of adaptions or medical assistance, or prescriptions to survive every day to function?
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next stop for Angela plenty of fish(wives)
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I've emailed so many mps basically saying the voters won't forget and we will remember on voting day emailed one called Danny beales he responded what area are you in I replied he responded your mps and said he's name amd said I should be addressing him I said I have thankyou but I'm also making most MPs aware of our feelings emailed so many last night again I don't care anymore just say how I feel not rude or anything I'm totally cheesed off
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I don’t know how they plan to get us to work. I have fibromyalgia and ME among other conditions. I’m constantly in bed resting. Any exertion and I get PEM . I couldn’t even sit at a desk at home and sleep on and off throughout the day . How’s streeting going to get the NHS to cure me so I can work when there is no cure ? I can’t understand how this will be legal .
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