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But if they do change scc to include fluctuating conditions isn’t that an improvement? It seems like it will be actual rules rather than what we have now that’s up to the discretion of assessors. My GP said they don’t have anyone who’s currently on the light touch awards. Hopefully it be be implemented that fluctuating conditions are included 🤞
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Do you/can you use AI sites like ChatGPT or Claude? You can paste the whole email your got from your MP into this and ask it to summerise the main points or explain it more simply. I use it a lot for things like this
You can find either on Google, go to the site and in the window ask it to summerise/explain the email and paste the email in (hopefully this makes sense)
It's quick and a lot easier than waiting for an MP to respond. Mine has only just replied to my email after I mailed her in May (I think). Hopefully this helps.
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oh thank you I hadn’t thought of this! I will do this, thank you
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I don't think that Farage recognises the existence of disabled people - I really fear that it will start all over again….
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Maybe I worded it wrong in regards to transition ....
As I understood it ....
Im on CBESA and LCWRA but no pip ....
I thought that we would be reasessed under the present WCA anytime up until it's abolishment in April 2028
( they start again fully in April 2026 , so I'm expecting one before April 2028 )
If I pass , which I hopefully will I will stay on cbesa and lcwra for the next two years ....
This will take me past April 2028 when the WCA is abolished and also everything that goes will it , Inc , ESA , lcwra , lcw etc
So yes our award won't end without another reassessment just because of the abolishment of everything , so our journel could well change from lcwra to health element automatically as thats what it would have changed to by then
From April 2028 I've read that it will be new claims that will be getting assessed with the new pip criteria first ( minus the 4 point rule thank god 🙏 until the Timms review we won't know exactly what the criteria will be )
And then existing claims after , this could start earliest, back end of 2029 .....
Then we get assessed with the new pip criteria
There are still hefty backlogs for the WCA , so if they start April 2026 you could still very easily be waiting a while for one .... I'm 6 years since having one and 4 years overdue in November and I've seen alot of people that are 8 years since having one and 6 years overdue sooooo 🤷
Im hoping to get one around mid 2027 if I pass that would take me to mid 2029 before having the next reassessment under new pip criteria
@Passerby I've just thought 🤔
When they say new claims will be the first to be reassessed in April 2028 under the new criteria , would that mean us ? .... As technically we would be new claimants to the pip .... When they say existing claiment earliest 2029 would that mean existing claimants of PIP ?
even so it will take a long time to do so so you would have to be pretty unlucky to be one of the first
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Email your MP with this email template to convince them to vote against the SCC criteria.
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So realistically people in our position may not be assessed until 2030 .... Long time to be worrying isn't it .... A new government will be in by then.... a long way to go .... No way I'm going to worry myself for the next five years .... Just concentrate on my next assessment I think 😌
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Why is Labour punishing disabled people but rewarding the wealthy?
'…..one hundred and twenty or more of its own MPs objected to the plans that Liz Kendal had, to cut personal independence payments…..I was angry about that but Im as angry that up to seventy of those MPs who previously objected are now accepting the revised package ….those seventy Labour MPs who backed out have sold out, there's no other way to describe them….and I hope their constituents remember that…they're selling out they're ethics for a basic political calculation of saving their skin…'
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Well I'm hoping for a reassessment no earlier than January 2027 hopefully I pass and get two years then that will be Jan 2029 and even without all these changes you always get a delayed reassessment of a few months so it will be chaos around that time so that will take me to mid 2029 and we go from there .....
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I will never understand why anyone would protest vote against a government messing up the welfare bill/etc (but with some MPs trying to fight back) for a party who are so far incapable of managing even a local Council without costing thousands in by-elections…and who don't believe in the welfare state/want a privatised US-style NHS.
…A lot of people voted Brexit as a protest as well. One of the reasons we're where we are now is because, instead of taking the no vote as it actually stood (a tight victory), we were suddenly told everyone wanted the most punishing form of Brexit possible and there would be no incorporation of anything that was not total destruction of EU relationship.
This is a bit like that. I wish people would learn. You don't solve broken windows by demolishing the whole house.
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I’ve never seen what their relevant conditions were . In fact I’ve never known anyone that knew about it including legal advisors and my GP . My assessor gave me two years for conditions with no cure or treatment. Anything that is up to an assessor I’d be weary of
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Me too
I refuse to let this dominate my mind.
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Hi Passerby, thank you for eloquently detailing this, when just a couple of days ago I could only manage saying ''you will need to be at deaths door'' . I believe this still to be true, I hate saying that, many many folk will fall through the cracks. I firmly believe but obviously could be wrong, that those in power will make any and all changes as difficult as possible for the very simple reason that they need ( to please the tax payer et al ) and will want to, claw back the money to fill that black hole we are all so sick of hearing about.
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