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

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  • charlie72
    charlie72 Online Community Member Posts: 130 Empowering

    Hi, I would like some advice if possible about the 4 point system, I've looked at my recent award which I was granted for another 4 years from December just gone. I always thought I should have got 4 points minium for mixing with people but I got a 2. Now I have read the discriptor for this activity a bit more, which I should have done at first, but was soooo stressed! I surmised I could actually get the 8 points as I would have major panic attacks and self harm with mixing outside etc. I think my problem is I don't know how to write it down properly to explain how it affects me on adaily basis, so any advice would be very helpful and much appreciated for when I am next reveiwed, thanks.

  • Jenwren
    Jenwren Online Community Member Posts: 81 Empowering

    Very true to both comments. I have friends and family - disabled and non disabled, some were Labour some were more never-Tories. Some occasionally voted for Tories but weren't fans of Tories (don't ask). What I do know is that none of them will vote Tory again, and none of them will vote Labour again. It's defiantely going to be interesting. The big wolf in the room is will this enable Farage/Reform to sweep in. But the thing is Labour can't keep getting away with this **** - they keep going after vulnerable people - this isn't a one off and frankly even if it was it's unforgiveable.

  • Catherine21
    Catherine21 Posts: 4,814 Championing

    Oh god they worked it all out well let's hope thier pushed to change

  • ste_r
    ste_r Online Community Member Posts: 18 Connected

    hi all

    I am on standard daily living, first award 6 years ago with 8 pts, also standard mobility

    3 years ago with 10 pts for standard, got enhanced mobility

    Never had 4 pts on one, been 2pters etc, bit concerned 

    Even if I had 4 pter would be dubious they don’t put it to 3 when changes happen, get 12 pts or more, no 4 pts on any!

    Also just recently sent my review form back, award was till September 2025, now had to do new review form which was bit nightmare even for cab!

    Conditions have worsened, dubious they are already going to sneakily carry out my review along new guidelines, don’t trust them, very stressful 

    Maybe it’s better now than November 2026, or is it?

  • luvpink
    luvpink Online Community Member Posts: 1,830 Championing

    The new guidelines won't come into place this year so they can't do that.

  • luvpink
    luvpink Online Community Member Posts: 1,830 Championing

    Yes I intend to do that.

    I will go into much more detail on all of the daily living activities.

  • travis50
    travis50 Online Community Member Posts: 48 Empowering

    Might I ask if everyone will now receive a personal letter from the DWP about what they will have to do in the future and how it will affect them individually? I have never qualified for PiP but I am in support group of ESA and about to claim UC. Thank you.

  • secretsquirrel1
    secretsquirrel1 Online Community Member Posts: 620 Trailblazing

    I agree . For one thing the 4? Points clearly discriminates against certain levels of disability so you can get 20 points , go through all the system and have no award . Nit to mention the wca and pip assessment were different tests . Unless they incorporate the assessment for sickness into pip assessment it’s basically excluding ppl who are sick . And there’s no safety net , everything hangs on those 4 points . Kendall knows the assessors are the ones committing fraud not us hence covering their back with recording . Obviously sometimes the recording equipment doesn’t work. Or in my case they didn’t have any available but didn’t realise until a hour before my test .

  • Jenwren
    Jenwren Online Community Member Posts: 81 Empowering

    I really respect her doing this and that she is really hammering this. We do have some other voices on twitter etc - Jeremy Corbyn, Zarah Sultana, Andy Burnham and some others have been speaking out and it's very appreciated but not close to enough.

    The one (only?) good thing was Liz Kendall got a pasting from MPs (mostly labour) over and over: (I fast forwarded to her replies/defenses) on YouTube (on JoePolitics channel)

    Also as angry as we are with Liz Kendall - and trust me she absolutely deserves it, Stammer, Rachel Reeves and the disability secretary (Timms?) should all face our rage. A large part of this is because Reeves refuses to bend her own fiscal rules and has a black hole in finances and wants to scrape together cash for defense. Stammer I cannot understand - his mum and brother are/were disabled and couldn't work. Maybe he's truly fell in love with his corporate donars who knows? (hope the vid is allowed)

  • secretsquirrel1
    secretsquirrel1 Online Community Member Posts: 620 Trailblazing

    I have ME amongst other things and over exertion or exercise is considered dangerous. I will be asking them to take personal responsibility if I become worse .

  • Stellar
    Stellar Online Community Member Posts: 258 Empowering

    So where are the details on frequent in-person protests to fight these cuts?

    I'm not writing to my MP, and frankly unless you physically can't attend protests, nor should you. Letter writing campaigns are toothless drivel that the British left overrely on for political change (hence why they're toothless drivel).

  • secretsquirrel1
    secretsquirrel1 Online Community Member Posts: 620 Trailblazing

    a lot of dwp staff are on pip so I’ve been told . I know for a fact Atos staff are as one answering the phone to me told me

  • secretsquirrel1
    secretsquirrel1 Online Community Member Posts: 620 Trailblazing

    Hi , problem is Tory’s Mel stride are saying they can achieve 12b cuts . They reckon labour went too easy . So who else can actually get in next election. I hope it’s not ping pong and back to Tory.

  • secretsquirrel1
    secretsquirrel1 Online Community Member Posts: 620 Trailblazing

    Hi , so does that mean the 4 Points situation cannot be fought in law as that seems to be the gateway to benefits now . What I don’t understand is when Tory’s tried to bring in new laws everything seemed to get stopped by legal action and our courts or the echr . Does it mean had they brought things in as primary laws they could have passed everything they pleased ?

  • secretsquirrel1
    secretsquirrel1 Online Community Member Posts: 620 Trailblazing

    I know we are screwed unless Starmer and reeves are ousted or Lib Dem’s greens and independent join forces.

  • dreamwarrior
    dreamwarrior Online Community Member Posts: 32 Contributor

    While I got two descriptors with 4 points and 2x2 I hope id be safe after 2028 for my next pip review. (12 for mobility)as well. However if I fail to get 4 points then I understand that we loose basic daily pip, the entitlement to lcwra, carers allowance for my wife and the carers element of UC. Which will leave us in a position where I cant work still but will not have even enough money to cover food and energy bills for us. This is going to be devastating for a lot of people.

  • Loulou82xx
    Loulou82xx Online Community Member Posts: 47 Empowering

    My worry is how will people afford their prescriptions if they lose their benefits.

    I take 13 different medications per day and I know many people will be on similar or even more medication.

    I was expecting a light touch review in 2029 but if their goal is to get as many people as possible off of PIP then I may not be okay despite scoring 4's under the current system. It doesn't make me feel happy or good that so many other disabled people are going through so much anguish over the possibilty of losing their PIP and then LCWRA and potentially inability to afford their medication.

  • JasonRA
    JasonRA Online Community Member Posts: 188 Pioneering

    Someone on another comments section highlighted the amount of ableist hatred on Twitter, remember ONLY in Britain this BS happens, no other country in Western Europe does this.

    Britain should get sanctioned from the international community for the way they treat disabled people, again what makes Britain the moral arbiter in regards of any geopolitical conflict on the World's stage?, even that orange cretin in the Whitehouse has more respect for disabled people.

    Going after disabled people IS a hate crime yet Ofcom and their Online Safety Bill have done nothing to stop it in social media.

  • Jenwren
    Jenwren Online Community Member Posts: 81 Empowering

    I just don't get why he was a human right's lawyer - unless he's got those sociopathic traits that some surgeons etc have (not talking about serial killers, there are sociopaths who don't harm people) and he was in it just to win etc. I suppose it'll depend how much Labour want to win another election. MPs get a lot of perks (expenses anyone) there will be labour MPs that absolutely will not care about us, but they will care about loosing their seat, perks and expenses (how many of us would like subsidised food and drinks, travel expenses, rent expenses…). The weird thing is Labour's Renters bill is actually good and will help a lot of people but then they act like total sociopaths to anyone who they feel is not 'economically active' - except they forget that includes children, early retirees, pensioners, unemployed, maternity/paternity, stay at home parents, some full time students, employed people on zero hours contracts - now that is a huge swath of people and every single person will be in one of those catagories in their lifetime, guarenteed. It's not just that this reform bill is cruel and unnecersary, it's really, really, really badly thought out. It'll impact people waaaaay beyond just the disabled (carers, NHS, family, employers of disabled/sick people, the economy - good luck when disabled/sick people can't afford to buy goods and services). Thing is Labour like Tories are pos in a death spiral. They don't know who they are or what they want. Too many gen public people were against Corbyn, they're too afraid to go for a socialist/Bernie Sanders type so that leaves the centeristist types, and somany people in govt (of all kinds) are so, so afraid and in awe of billionaires. I honestly think money - the persuit of making more and more and more (specifically for billionaires) is more addictive than crack and sugar combined (sorry for rant)

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