The Green Paper Discussion (the document link is here too!)

When it comes to pip review, you simply have to explain if your disabilities have progressed. Then further explain where you feel you should have scored higher

oh wow . Yes that’s what my last assessor did to me . Concreted on questions that only awarded 2 points for that answer even if I should have got 4. Now there will be ppl at tribunal for that 4 points . The assessors are crafty they know as long as you get your award you don’t care about how you get those points .

I am thinking that mobility is completely separate from the conversation about 4 points. I am pretty sure she said that it didn't affect mobility, and that the 4 points were required on one criteria to qualify for daily living section only.

Not that that is necessarily great but honestly when I first heard it I thought it meant 4 points on everything to qualify for anything so in comparison to that it's not as bad as it could be.

Catherine, if you have 4 points on any of the daily living criteria then your claim would still be the same, it depends how all those points you have for daily living add up across different criteria. If you don't, this will probably be reviewed when you next are assessed but not until that point. At present there doesn't seem an intention to review anyone mid-award, so if your next check isn't till 2030 or 2032 then it will happen then. IF these plans are adopted. And if I'm understanding it right.

That is my interpretation of the plans, it is possible my interpretation is wrong.

What is the end date of the award? The green paper does say existing awards will be honoured. So what you have now should be locked in until your next review is completed.

I’m the same, I’ve just had my review and got 3’s but as I passed I left it too but next time I will get letters from gps & consultants and get help filling the form in, I have a degenerative disease amongst other things so il never get any better, just worse

hello, please can someone help me, I currently get LCWRA? No pip and I’m 23, will be 24 in July. I got lcwra in December last year, will I have my money taken off me or cut? When will this be, I know it’s not a definite but please I need some assurance I can’t figure out what it means for me. I’m going out of my mind x

Same for me. I was put in the NS ESA support group last year because I was blind. There is no end date and I was told I wasn’t expected to find work and my condition would not improve (eyesight).

Could they change their mind on the starting of LCWRA reassessments again or is it set in stone?

BBC - re: PIP scoring

"The bottom line here is that a pattern of recent mental health claims has been based on a range of less severe issues. 

The changes announced today aim to take Pip payments away from such people from November 2026. The government knows how many, and who they are. 

For now, until the Spring Statement next week, we can deduce that there are hundreds of thousands who will lose their entire £70 a week or £3,500 a year payment