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  • secretsquirrel1
    secretsquirrel1 Community Member Posts: 2,048 Championing

    exactly. Farage may think he can ignore us well that’s fine cos so far he’s doing well in local elections. I doubt he will in a GE . GE is a serious vote and if torys want to turn it around they need our votes .

  • onlymeagain
    onlymeagain Community Member Posts: 259 Empowering

    I agree, which is why I said 'those living at home'. Though generally, a disabled person (who isn't able to work) isn't capable of setting up their own home regardless of their homelife at a younger age.

  • secretsquirrel1
    secretsquirrel1 Community Member Posts: 2,048 Championing

    Hi Catherine,

    Which email address did you use ? I have an automated reply saying to send to loto@parliament.uk and not her parliament address as she’s not my mp

  • charlie72
    charlie72 Community Member Posts: 259 Pioneering

    Iv'e found the link for it, hope you don't mind me putting up😊

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd90j80p14zo

  • secretsquirrel1
    secretsquirrel1 Community Member Posts: 2,048 Championing

    It’s scary to think what happens to the ones that can’t stay living at home especially if they can’t claim benefits. If they can’t claim benefits they can’t pay a share of household bills . There’ll be some who just get thrown out .

  • secretsquirrel1
    secretsquirrel1 Community Member Posts: 2,048 Championing

    I sent it to the address they said too . The fact that she replied to you on her constituents email shows they want votes imo

  • secretsquirrel1
    secretsquirrel1 Community Member Posts: 2,048 Championing

    Daily mirror

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  • secretsquirrel1
    secretsquirrel1 Community Member Posts: 2,048 Championing

    There’s an article in the guardian regarding labour softening pip cuts , probably the story from the Financial Times this morning. I can’t read it and screenshot as I’m not subscribed . If anyone can post the screenshots that would be much appreciated

  • lincsgranny
    lincsgranny Community Member Posts: 201 Empowering
  • secretsquirrel1
    secretsquirrel1 Community Member Posts: 2,048 Championing

    Thank you 🙏 what do you think of it ? It seems they’re testing the waters and trying to maybe u turn ?

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  • secretsquirrel1
    secretsquirrel1 Community Member Posts: 2,048 Championing

    Notice how she wrote “ many former Labour voters “ . Obviously been getting a lot of emails from disabled people saying the same thing , support the disabled if you want our votes

  • lincsgranny
    lincsgranny Community Member Posts: 201 Empowering

    Their running scared at the moment, I'm hoping they see sense and help us all by cancelling these balance the books cuts.

    And everyone in the Labour party gone they are a joke

  • lincsgranny
    lincsgranny Community Member Posts: 201 Empowering

    I don't trust them but I'm hoping they stop these cuts we have been through enough

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  • sparrow77
    sparrow77 Community Member Posts: 64 Empowering

    I wonder how high your overall score would need to be ? Would they change it so standard daily allowance pip claimants lose out but enhanced claimants keep their claims ? 🤷🏻‍♀️

  • secretsquirrel1
    secretsquirrel1 Community Member Posts: 2,048 Championing

    That’s the way I read it . So the 87% on standard who don’t get a 4 point would lose pip . All on enhanced would keep it regardless of a 4 point descriptor plus the 13% on standard who do get a 4 point descriptor. So really if it goes through it would discriminate against most in standard , practically wiping out pip standard rate . That’s what I read it as but someone may see it differently to me

  • Martinp
    Martinp Community Member Posts: 248 Empowering
    edited May 2025

    on Disability News Service there is an article about Timms walking past a Disabled lady having a seizure in the meeting, I felt so sad and angry reading it. He and no doubt his fellow DWP friends really must hold us in utter contempt.

    https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/shock-of-activists-as-disability-minister-ignores-disabled-woman-who-collapsed-on-floor-after-cuts-meeting/

  • jasminehoop
    jasminehoop Community Member Posts: 51 Contributor

    What I don't understand is how they can now start making these vague promises to people at the enhanced level, implying there will be a definite dividing line and cut off. I read people posting online who get enhanced for, say, fibromyalgia and anxiety (just as an example, but it pops up a fair bit). I've been diagnosed with both of those conditions but also have diagnoses of other pain disorders. On top of those I have severe osteoporosis which has resulted in 3 spinal fractures without any traumatic cause, and I'm in my 50s. The whole saga of the last couple of months has made me realise I'm at risk of fracturing again if I twist to try and wash my back, and that has been the case for a number of years but I always struggle to get enough 2 point scores on daily living to get standard rate. I've been diagnosed by both a psychiatrist and a psychotherapist with EUPD but I never even bother filling out the question about going out on my own because it doesn't seem to cover certain mental illnesses, even some severe ones. Now what it feels like is so much of why 87% of us will lose out altogether in the future is because so many assessments are already rigged and/or flawed under the CURRENT rules, and they're talking about making the health element dependent on being in the 13% of people who get enhanced PIP, but many people only get short-term standard rate daily living, even though they've got multiple diagnoses that result in significant disability and impairment.

    It's all a bit mad! ☺️

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