Scope's reply to the governments planned concessions to the green paper.
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Christied said they’ve made changes such as fluctuating conditions for severe criteria. I’m trying to de stress if I can as I think they’ve seen they can’t just do what they like . It’s been over a year of this now. I’m trying not to add another year to this now .
How are you Catherine ? I hope you’re resting and trying to do something fun like watch a good horror movie. You’ll burn yourself out if you don’t ❤️
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I know they all seemed to switch it's really weird from meg hillier to Abrahams I've started emailing about scc category they are not talking about that ?? And obviously if I prey to God not if goes through Wednesday it's done deal no changing how can this actually be happening
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Your right it's been well over a year no haven't been watching anything really like Danny123 I think said will be 2028 2029 have to keep remembering that xx
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Yes we need a break to refresh Catherine. You can always pm me if you need to talk ❤️
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True. Because they don't meet the strict criteria for LCWRA based solely on their functional limitations, to start with. One has to first meet the criteria for LCWRA/Support Group before they become eligible to be considered under SCC.
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there has to be a disability press group formed, that attends leaders/politicians press conferences at least during the run up to an election.
Cause many political parties are very vague in their manifestos when it comes to welfare and disability benefits. An issue that MSM never, never asked during manifesto presentation press conferences.
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To be fair, the one thing that all disabled people want/need/would benefit from is a regulated, approachable, support-first DWP. Not an organisation where you're afraid to change your phone number in case it triggers a whole review of your entire claim, but an organisation where you can pick up the phone/go into a designated space and say, hey, can we talk about (x y z). A way of making amendments (improvements or deteriorations of condition) in which you could bring in a statement of evidence and have a chat with a (trained) person who would then, with your agreement, amend your record without the drama of forced reassessment, forced appeal, and threat of sanctions. An organisation where when you call their line you aren't lectured on fraud, despite there being next to no fraud from claimants in the disability support system.
The people who are genuinely trapped on benefits, the people on the wrong rate of benefits, the people living in fear all the time of losing their benefits…wouldn't it be so much better if the DWP were there to work with claimants, listen and support them rather than punish imaginary infractions and misplace their evidence?
Maybe this is why in other countries there is not so much drama over welfare as here :/ Maybe they have this and we don't.
Unfortunately I don't see that being an outcome of the Timms review. I have no idea why governmental conversations about disability are always so negative :/
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Yep, I'm in the same situation as you. I'm also thinking like not to worry as much as I've been since 18Th March in particular, as reassessment will only restart from April 2026 and it'll mainly be for those who were previously given a short-term WCA decision (e.g., for pregnancy risk or cancer treatment with a short-term prognosis) and those who were previously placed in the LCWRA group under the substantial risk criteria. I don't they've now much interest in reassessing everybody as soon as possible since their detrimental infamous 4pt plan is now scrapped.
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Just read that on X. I wonder who else will following her?
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Daily mail
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You’re getting your wish Catherine
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SDP anyone? The Independent Group? I would love to believe this party can take off, but have they any billionaire non doms on board?
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I''m 'pro-Palestine', oh DM troglodytes.
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just seen on Facebook disability page, Darren Grimes Reform has posted stats people claiming pip for mh and autism etc 😡
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I'm going to write to Jeremy Corbyn to share my thoughts with him in light of their new party.
Yep, a new chaos for Keir Starmer! Good for him.
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Did they not claim you get PIP for having spots? The usual fact-free bullocks i bet!
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As usual, far too many people have no understanding of these things at all.
Or they are people who have experience but their troubles are minimal so they give the 'if I can work like normal without claiming then so can everybody else.'
Then people congratulate them with 'you're one of the good useful ones.'
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Unfortunately autistic people, people with MH conditions and with other invisible disabilities are always the butt of this kind of comment. Because instead of promoting inclusion and awareness, our media likes to peddle misinformation and overdiagnosis tropes that have no basis in fact.
Meanwhile Reform councillors have been costing the tax payer 10k per go each time one quits and forces a local by election. I forget how many it is now but it's more than ten. That's more money than any person gets on PIP for a whole year even on the very top level.
…So maybe they'd like to stop spewing about what disabled people are legitimately doing and ask their councillors why they're capable of playing a game of popularity contest but not actually doing the job that comes with it?
The people who say "I'm fine so you should be too" don't understand disability :/. But there are also a lot of barriers in place for people who can/want to work because of the assumptions about capability and the ignorance from employers. Buckland report did a great job of exposing those for autistic people.
As an autistic person who is working, I'm really lucky in my team and with my manager - but I have seen and experienced first hand the things employers will do to avoid employing a disabled person.
And that's if you even get to the interview. Even some disability charities don't practice very accessible recruitment :(
And just because I work, it doesn't mean that's always easy or that I glide through it then have a wild party on my off days. I literally have a list on my fridge right now reminding me which bus stop I need to use on which day to catch the right bus to work for each shift - because my navigation means I get easily disorientated and I have legit ended up at the wrong one before now. :/ And reminding me to go to work tomorrow because I have swapped a day and so am not on my usual timesheet. That's before I even get to work, so yeah.2
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