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  • Catherine21
    Catherine21 Posts: 6,138 Championing

    I know that's heartbreaking I've always done support work and did youth work as well was hard to watch some young people been lead into bad things no matter how you try to save them the power and influence people can over people I had leave many jobs I was to upset and it's only got worse

  • secretsquirrel1
    secretsquirrel1 Online Community Member Posts: 1,325 Championing

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  • secretsquirrel1
    secretsquirrel1 Online Community Member Posts: 1,325 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 Online Community Member Posts: 57 Contributor
  • lincsgranny
    lincsgranny Online Community Member Posts: 57 Contributor
  • secretsquirrel1
    secretsquirrel1 Online Community Member Posts: 1,325 Championing

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

  • secretsquirrel1
    secretsquirrel1 Online Community Member Posts: 1,325 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 Online Community Member Posts: 57 Contributor

    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 Online Community Member Posts: 57 Contributor

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

  • Passerby
    Passerby Posts: 403 Trailblazing

    No only am I one of the “ many former Labour voters “, but also one of the many former Labour Party members, as I always voted Labour except in 2024 and cancelled my membership in 2023 when Jeremy Corbyn was banned from standing as candidate for Labour party.

    I'm going to write to her, as at least, unlike Rayner, she takes the time to reply, which is a noble act.

  • sparrow77
    sparrow77 Online Community Member Posts: 63 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 Online Community Member Posts: 1,325 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 Online Community Member Posts: 188 Empowering
    edited May 29

    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 Online Community Member Posts: 22 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! ☺️

  • secretsquirrel1
    secretsquirrel1 Online Community Member Posts: 1,325 Championing

    I’m sure I read he’s a religious man too . And I thought a past supporter of the disabled. Guess he’s been bought . What a disgusting thing he is

  • secretsquirrel1
    secretsquirrel1 Online Community Member Posts: 1,325 Championing

    Hi jasmine,

    I also have fibromyalgia plus ME arthritis etc etc . I have had assessments where I’ve had zero points and fought for 2 years to upper tribunal. My last assessor increased care but lowered mobility which I got back in MR. I really think a lot of it is luck on who you get as an assessor . My conditions can’t be cured in fact the fatigue with ME can’t even be treated yet I’m awarded for 3 years . I spoke to someone the other day who told me she’s on a lifetime award but knows someone with exact same condition which effects her the same way and she’s only awarded short awards. I think there needs proper guidelines that they need to follow the same as court judges have . The system so often isn’t fair to some of us though obviously it’s not other claimants fault and I’m glad to hear good stories. But for some it’s a real struggle to get an award . I get enhanced but don’t get a 4 point as the assessors don’t give them out . Next time I’ll have to fight again, in fact there’ll be a million of us at tribunal costing billions of pounds if they go ahead with this nonsense

  • jasminehoop
    jasminehoop Online Community Member Posts: 22 Contributor

    Oh and just to add to my post, in case it has an unintended implication, I mean only 13% of current PIP claimants are being adequately and appropriately assessed, whatever their conditions and level of disability. I do not mean that any of them don't deserve their award. Many of the other 87%, though, are currently not being assessed properly, and if these cuts go through, almost certainly never will be 😔

  • secretsquirrel1
    secretsquirrel1 Online Community Member Posts: 1,325 Championing

    I will vote for which ever main party supports us . Who ever it is they’re only thinking of their career but so be it . I said to kemi in my email this was started by the Tory’s and I wouldn’t consider voting for her with Mel stride as chancellor

  • jasminehoop
    jasminehoop Online Community Member Posts: 22 Contributor

    Hi Secret, we must've cross posted earlier, I didn't see yours until now, soz!

    Yeh the system as it stands is terrible, it lets so many down and unnecessarily forces very unwell and disabled people to jump through fiery hoops just to get what they're due 🙄 It's awful that people like yourself sometimes don't even score a single point, but when they get to tribunal it's immediately obvious that they've been diddled out of their rightful award by the DWP's nasty agenda. And only in the last couple of months have many of us become aware that the 4 point scandal has actually been going on for years! Like you and many others, my disability is only going in one direction, but the assessors and decision makers refuse to acknowledge the genuine chronicity and prognoses of irreversible deterioration and fob us off with awards made on piddling timescales! 😡