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I also get 13 points for care but no 4 points and was advised badly when I went to MR over mobility. I wish I had appealed the 4 points then but will next time . I’m sure with your score you’ll be fine though .
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SCI is short for spinal cord injury @secretsquirrel1
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omg that sounds awful. They definitely can’t take your points away. It’s all so terrible like we are left playing the lottery . Whoever has the worse condition wins the prize . Totally disgusting when you think what we are fighting for they get in expenses every day .
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SCIs like everything else can vary. It's often through trauma, & can result in paraplegia/tetraplegia. One tetraplegic I worked with really shouldn't have survived as his lesion was so high. He was the most amazing person going around the ward in his adapted electric wheelchair which he could only control with the pressure from his chin when he was able inspiring all the younger paraplegics; I'll never forget Pat.
Nor the tetraplegic that frequently beat me at table tennis having had the bats strapped onto his wrists & hands! They both found what they could do & never gave up even if the latter was at my expense 😊
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This fight’s only just getting started and suddenly MPs are discovering that karma doesn’t just come for ordinary people, it also politely knocks on the doors of taxpayer-funded second homes in Surrey. Months of concerns about benefit cuts were dismissed as "necessary reforms" but now the penny has well and truly dropped. Turns out, when your £93,904 salary, subsidised meals, second home and taxpayer-funded travel are under threat at the next election, policy decisions suddenly feel very personal. Less "responsible governance," more "how do I maintain my current standard of living, come the next election?"
Take Labour MP Neil Duncan-Jordan, for example. With only an 18-vote majority and 5,000 constituents reliant on PIP, he’s now openly admitting that if these benefit cuts go through, he’s “toast” in his seat. But the concern isn’t for the thousands of disabled people bracing for financial ruin, oh no! His sudden epiphany didn’t come from empathy, but from panic, the moment the issue stopped being about a few million losing their benefits and started to look like a one-way ticket to the Jobcentre for him, come the next election. Voting for these cuts would mean voting himself out of a nice little earner, and that, it seems, is the real emergency!
Lobbying works. The heat has clearly reached many MPs already, and pressure is mounting not out of compassion for the disabled and sick, but driven by the undeniable force of self-interest. The pot is starting to bubble, and now is the time to turn up the gas! Keep the momentum going, keep emailing, keep writing, keep lobbying. The more we push, the harder it will be for them to ignore us and the grim futures they face if they turn against us!
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I emailed starmer , Reeves , Kendall , Rayner and Timms months ago saying exactly that . I told them they keep stating there are millions of disabled people, well that’s a lot of votes to lose. Today I emailed Emily Thornberry my previous MP who actually helped me fight for PIP in the past. There was a demonstration outside her offices and town hall last week too. I think maybe it would be helpful if we had a list of MPs we should email whether they’re our MPs or not . I’m not expecting a response but it shows them how we feel. They all need us to let them know if they abstain or vote for the cuts they lose our vote. I actually read what the MP said and couldn’t believe how blatant his selfishness was . Total lack of self awareness.
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It's so unfair @secretsquirrel1. I suffered a spinal cord injury. x
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Being reported in The TImes newspaper today 'spending on disability benefits to soar by 2030 despite cuts'.
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https://www.removepaywall.com/search?url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/disability-benefit-spending-rise-claimants-5rnqmkw77
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Last year around this time, when I asked my GP if she was willing to write me a support letter, as I was thinking of making a claim for PIP, my GP said that assessors or the DWP would contact them if they needed any health info on me.
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What is valuable in your message is that you realize that you are a participant in a war. An eternal war between the people and the government. Losses are guaranteed if you play only by the government's rules, you must use the government's methods against it.
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Is this legal?
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This is just some anonymous scribble. It turns out that the government can introduce any rules for summing up points and no one can object to it at all, did I understand correctly?
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What did they say ?
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Oh yes all planned
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What does it mean when says we expect your needs to change said that on mine
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I got 13 for daily living 4 for face to face means noting as all will. Change next assessment
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That's weirds weird my doctor did me a letter last June no problem
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I took sleeping tablets all through the day yesterday couldn't deal with thinking it's gone 3 in the morning I'm emailing mps agreeing to cuts saying 1.3 million people asking you to not vote for these horrific cuts and the public will never forget who did vote for them
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