Upcoming changes to benefits

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  • Catherine21
    Catherine21 Posts: 4,277 Championing

    Xx

  • Maggie37
    Maggie37 Online Community Member Posts: 44 Empowering

    Same. I was paying NI from 16 and put myself thru Uni by working as a domestic at nights. ****. I was an academic lecturer/ researcher and funder for Scottish Enterprise for decades, cared for Ma and Pa before their deaths( no carers allowance claimed).. as I still did a bit of work. Iโ€™m done in now.. autoimmune, Lupus, mental health but still fighting. I mean.. How Dare They!

  • secretsquirrel1
    secretsquirrel1 Online Community Member Posts: 470 Pioneering

    I havenโ€™t read anything about mobility award or motability . Iโ€™ve found that strange.

  • tcellmutation
    tcellmutation Online Community Member Posts: 329 Empowering

    It seems like the 90% of people in this thread are not physically disabled (deemed unfit from the new criteria) but suffer from things the government do not want to recognise anymore. Things like ME or mental health etc

  • secretsquirrel1
    secretsquirrel1 Online Community Member Posts: 470 Pioneering

    Thing is Iโ€™d consider myself severe but itโ€™s all down to the assessors and thatโ€™s pot luck on who you get . Would they consider fibromyalgia and ME as severe ? To them possibly invisible so doesnโ€™t exist.

  • tcellmutation
    tcellmutation Online Community Member Posts: 329 Empowering

    The government make a lot of money on this scheme. They won't want to abolish this

  • Santosha12
    Santosha12 Online Community Member Posts: 491 Empowering

    Thank you so much, I'll be 62 tomorrow yeeks. Mum used to tell me i came at 445pm, just in time for tea. I used to always sit in the kitchen 20 mins before it would be ready sat with knife and fork in hands waiting. ๐Ÿคฃ

  • Maggie37
    Maggie37 Online Community Member Posts: 44 Empowering

    Iโ€™ve a good pal in New Zealand who has EDS( joint hyper mobility)plus severe mental health issues.. she has worked in her life. She struggles. There is no assessment as we recognise it for disability. A govt body contacts her doctor directly and she is left alone. It is not the done thing to demonise people who are disabled.

  • secretsquirrel1
    secretsquirrel1 Online Community Member Posts: 470 Pioneering

    having just looked it up pain and fatigue conditions are classed as psychical disabilities. And are protected under the 2010 equality act . Mental health is also covered by the 2010 equality act if it classed as more than a mild condition not the type of condition itself. It depends on how it affects each person. I donโ€™t know how to post it on here so I hope I remembered the information correctly. Maybe someone can correct me if Iโ€™m wrong please

  • secretsquirrel1
    secretsquirrel1 Online Community Member Posts: 470 Pioneering
  • Albus_Scope
    Albus_Scope Posts: 9,142 Scope Online Community Coordinator

    Oh wow, happy birthday @Santosha12 I hope you have a splendid day. โค๏ธ

  • Santosha12
    Santosha12 Online Community Member Posts: 491 Empowering

    Thank You very much @Catherine21 I really appreciate that. And yes, some peace of mind would be the best present just not holding my breath, not that I can anyway ๐Ÿ˜‚

  • Santosha12
    Santosha12 Online Community Member Posts: 491 Empowering

    No, absolutely certain it is not. I might have had to fill in some income/expenditure questions but it wasn't a form as such/not so comprehensive it was just working through their online questions.

  • Jenwren
    Jenwren Online Community Member Posts: 36 Empowering

    Sorry to bother everyone, has the green paper been released yet? I've got some terrifying headlines about Starmer and Wes Streeting being chaos goblins (sorry I know all of us are scared, I'm not trying to make light, I didn't sleep and dark humour is my default setting)

    I can't see any indepth stuff about what they are going to do and how. I'm looking on Guardian and BBC news, am I looking in the wrong place, or haven't they posted the green paper yet?

    Sending support to everyone

  • Santosha12
    Santosha12 Online Community Member Posts: 491 Empowering

    @luvpink sorry please see my answer above, I didn't put your name

  • Santosha12
    Santosha12 Online Community Member Posts: 491 Empowering

    @Albus_Scope Thank you very much that's very kind!

  • Amaya_Ringo
    Amaya_Ringo Online Community Member Posts: 259 Pioneering

    Yesterday in a quiet moment at work I read through the Buckland report on autistic employment opportunities and most of what it said resonated with me as an autistic person in work. I recognised all of the problems and challenges and agreed with the solutions proposed. What I don't see in current govt policy, at least in that which has been leaked, is any interest in applying these.

    Buckland says many times that overcoming misinformation and stigma around ND conditions is central, meanwhile this past week the Daily Mail has claimed that dyslexia and adhd don't exist and even the Evening Standard claimed everyone is self-diagnosing online.

    This is not accidental, these articles are happening to shift public opinion in favour of welfare cuts by occluding real lived experiences of disabled people. Obviously I can only speak for autism and neurodivergence because it's my lived experience but I am sure it is the same for others in other disability groups.

    I wrote to the DWP a while back complaining about the govt cuts threatening my job and got a generic letter back today which did not even mention the Buckland Report in all their "we're going to make work better wooh!" commentary.

    Removing PIP from anyone will not incentivise a single person into work as PIP is not a work related benefit, but I have read many stories from people for whom losing PIP will cost them their job. This isn't me at present, but in the future it might be depending whether it impacts my travel support or other aspects.

    The suggestion of more frequent assessments is also not going to help anyone ND or with a MH diagnosis. More assessments means more triggers means less function means less likely to be able to work. But at the same time they've said permanent disabilities may not need to be reassessed? I know this is all speculation right now but that's such a contradiction given their assault on neurodiversity in general. It's as if they think autism and ADHD will go away o.O.

    And there are several MH diagnoses which are also permanent, even if some others are not.

    I reflected this morning that at no point in my whole life do I feel like I live in a democracy. Everyone else has to speak for me, and people like me. When we try to speak, we're shut down or ignored. Sad, isn't it?

  • Santosha12
    Santosha12 Online Community Member Posts: 491 Empowering

    @Summerlove Thank you so much I really appreciate everybody's good wishes ๐Ÿ˜Š x

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