The Universal Credit Bill becomes law. Here are the changes to disability benefits you need to know
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Your Blue badge is totally independent to PIP - I had a blue badge for 10 years prior to receiving PIP Mobility - it was based on an assessment that the local council gave me !
Getting Attendance Allowance might also help to support your application for a Blue Badge.
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My council only gives blue badges to those on pip mobility but as you say attendance allowance may be acceptable.
I am trying to remain positive but its difficult.
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If you get Personal Independence Payments (PIP)
You’re automatically eligible for a Blue Badge if you either:
- scored 8 points or more in the ‘moving around’ area of your PIP assessment
- scored 10 points in the ‘planning and following journeys’ area of your PIP assessment and were put in category ‘E’ - this means your stress, anxiety or other mental health issue stops you leaving the house
Check your PIP decision letter if you’re not sure.
If you're not automatically eligible
You can still get a badge if:
- you have long-term problems walking or going to places - including problems caused by stress, anxiety or other mental health issues
- you have severe problems using both your arms
If you’re applying on behalf of a child, you can still get a badge if the child is:
- aged over 2 and has long-term problems walking or going to places - including problems caused by stress, anxiety or other mental health issues
- aged under 3 and needs to be close to a vehicle because of a health condition
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Yes I am aware of all of that but I fear I may lose pip altogether under these new rules, in which case when I retire I will apply for attendance allowance.
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Is this the main or only thread discussing this now? Everything seems to have gone very quiet all of a sudden… wondering if I missed something.
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Reating a couple of comments here, I'm wondering whether it is possible to claim PIP mobility and AA, which doesn't cover mobility, after State Pension age.
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It is @geckobat.
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It's only an opinion but, if the threads keep getting closed, then people are going to shy away from posting and that's not something you want. I've been on forums where the threads go on for hundreds of pages, but now, if these threads about the green paper go above twenty, you shut them down. it doesn't seem right to me.
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You can't get both PIP and AA at the same time.
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Hello.
I took a week off from reading anything to do with this or any news.
The key to all of this is evidence, make sure you have evidence, concrete, watertight evidence of your disabilities/incapacities and they cannot do a damn thing about it.
They cannot dispute facts, if they try to then seek legal action. I'm tired of disabled/incapacitated people being treated like criminals, always under suspicion for lying, it's a terrible inditement on this country.
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Hi @AppleJacks thank you for the feedback, it is appreciated and we do take it on board. We've tried to keep the threads going for as long as possible running up to the voting, but when they get too large it effects people's ability to post so we have been forced to create a new one. And then more recently with the voting and fast paced changes, we had a lot of questions and requests for updates so we've tried to share the most up to date detail by creating a new discussion (but linking back to the previous one) to try to make it easier to see and access this information. Hopefully we can keep this one in place like we were doing with the earlier discussions 🙂
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I know. I just wondered whether some claimants might meet the criteria for ongoing PIP mobility but, having zero for DL, could apply for AA at the appropriate age. Hey ho.
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Hi @MW123 that's a really good question, and something the online community team had actually spoken about today. I've passed this on to the team within Scope I believe will be managing this. Thanks for raising and hopefully we'll understand more about the plans in the near future.
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I agree with it keeping it to one thread, and the thread itself needs to be not too out of date, otherwise the community just becomes politics dominated, and scope is about much more then that. The mods have done a good job of cleaning up, if it was left alone we would have dozens of political threads all dominating the recent discussions, with often duplicated discussions and questions.
In terms of the ongoing political upheaval, I was part of a discussion with a outer family member at the weekend and was very disappointed to hear of his view, it seems he had previously hid it out of respect for me, but the view is basically not only to cut support for mentally disabled people (he has no issue with physically disabled and because of that says he has no issue with me), but the bit that really shocked me, was that he doesnt even support having social support circles in place, no social workers, mental health care etc. just the view, force into poverty to force a recovery. A reason wasnt even given to give rationale to the point of view, just the view given.
Whether its relevant or not he does come from a wealthy family who do support each other, e.g. he in effect has been gifted his home, never had to really worry about much because his parents will make sure he is ok, and this perhaps has led to assumptions that this kind of support is available to everyone, I dont know as the conversation didnt really carry on, no reason was given, and we moved on to something else.
I have also come across multiple people who refuse to believe the NHS and social care is hard to access, they think if the treatment hasnt been offered then it must mean the patient has not been seeing the doctor or not being truthful with their doctor. They even fail to accept it can be close to impossible to just get a GP appointment, because their own surgery is ok.
There is so much misunderstanding and misinterpretation in the country right now.4 -
Can't even have that here. Appointments need to be made online between 9.30 and 1pm but the online form will become unavailable earlier if they fill up their quota for instructions that day. Receptionists can't make any appointments anymore unless for nurse.
You also have to use the same online form to request repeat meds or a fit note.
I was supposed to be supplying fit notes but I couldn't get access to the form because they had always maxed out for that day so my fit note expired and I couldn't provide a new one.1 -
Yes they can. Any gaps in fit notes move the new award start date forward. That means potentially a longer wait to start receiving the new award, or potentially less backpay, depending on how quickly the WCA decision is made.
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Looking at comments from 'worried' earlier, over the weekend I got involved with a discussion about benefits with an ex work colleague who is lucky enough to be doing o.k, I worked hard and paid in to the system, but in my 50's my health deteriorated and I became disabled, for the first time ever had to get myself involved with the claiming benefits nightmare, and to hear him saying that all you do is ring them up, fill in a form, and then you get a grand a month plus a free car, really offended me particularly when he absolutely switched off to hearing and trying to understand the truth of how it really works, this is an example of what we are up against, with more than a few m.p's I am sure holding similar views and opinions all be it privately.
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That's your problem. Not the DWP's.
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I couldn't go forward with the wca. So they said i now had to look for a job but I reminded them that I am a carer.
I may try again though since they are cutting the lcwra rate in half next year.
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