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

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  • JulieTuesday
    JulieTuesday Online Community Member Posts: 58 Contributor

    I am in a similar postion to you as now over 70 years and moved to PIP from DLA. I have enhanced Daily Living as got 12 points but no 4 in any one discription. I'm light touch as well but have got much worse since I first got PIP. I 'think' once you are up for a review only then can you tell them how bad you have got (same as me) Being disabled you seem to age quicker and muscle mass decreases quicker. I so hope we all get answers soon enough as I lay awake wondering how will cope without the extra money from PIP. 😧 Labour seem determined to see off the oldies one way or anther.

  • YogiBear
    YogiBear Online Community Member Posts: 185 Empowering

    I wonder what this means about 'new people claiming'. They're really needs to be more clarification on this. However I have my suspicions that all new/existing claimants will affected either now or down the line. I haven't filled in the response to the green paper yet. However I did email two MP's today. One of them who stood up for us today in parliament (Colum Eastwood).

  • Middleton
    Middleton Online Community Member Posts: 258 Empowering

    If that's true; that's technically DWP stating they don't trust people's families

  • pinkrose
    pinkrose Online Community Member Posts: 165 Empowering

    Where did you see this ?

    Every minute it's getting worse.....I'm struggling with all this today

  • Pirate008
    Pirate008 Online Community Member Posts: 7 Listener

    yes, you are spot on. Make sure you record any further difficulties you are having and any evidence to support those. PIP assure me that nothing will change while my award is ongoing. Like you, when the soft touch review becomes due ( in my case Dec 2027) could be the right time to challenge, on the other hand they may just keep you as you are (which I would be happy with).

  • tcellmutation
    tcellmutation Online Community Member Posts: 339 Empowering

    I have the 4 points and 16 points in total. 10 year award, enhanced / enhanced. It seems like people in this category will be left alone and won't have to be reassessed

  • secretsquirrel1
    secretsquirrel1 Online Community Member Posts: 809 Championing

    in the comments on dynamic duo . I can’t confirm it’s true which is why I asked scope for clarification. But they haven’t changed the pip form criteria and of course there’s carers allowance. So hopefully it’s not true . If it were almost no one would get it as who has a live in professional carer.

  • secretsquirrel1
    secretsquirrel1 Online Community Member Posts: 809 Championing

    I don’t think it would mean that but just a loop hole . How many have a live in professional carer . Hopefully it’s not true but we need scope to clarify this .

  • Middleton
    Middleton Online Community Member Posts: 258 Empowering

    Why didn't you reason that out before posting?

  • Middleton
    Middleton Online Community Member Posts: 258 Empowering
  • Middleton
    Middleton Online Community Member Posts: 258 Empowering

    Why on earth would it be an issue

  • luvpink
    luvpink Online Community Member Posts: 1,990 Championing
  • Hopeless
    Hopeless Online Community Member, Scope Member Posts: 743 Empowering

    I don’t think that can be the case as people’s family often claim carer’s allowance to look after the person on PIP. As far as I’m aware you just have to show that you need the help. Whether you get it and who from doesn’t matter

  • Jenwren
    Jenwren Online Community Member Posts: 82 Empowering

    You're welcome. The more I'm on the forum etc the more my fury at Labour grows to cold, hard stuff-them mentality. I voted for them. I believed no one could be worse than Tories. Labour isn't my natural political home but it's them or Tories were I live. I'm done with them - so are a lot of people I know, and it's not just disabilities but that's a large factor. I'm hearing people who have friends and family who are disabled and are incesed by this and genuinely furious and disgusted. I fully believe Starmmer and co will try to ram this through but I think they are underestimating how bad this will be for them, how much people will fight. Well, that's my hope.

  • Vulcress
    Vulcress Online Community Member Posts: 89 Empowering

    The consultation questions under the green paper are lamentable

    They are not asking the correct questions, most of them almost feel like

    "Write what you like but we are correct"

    The last 3 questions feel duplicates,

    I just kept saying

    1, accept some people will never work instead of wasting huge sums of money on that

    focus on the people who only need NHS treatment/OPS to return to work

    2. Respect the clinical evidence provided, now its more focused on the opinions of companies paid millions to axe benefits for people only for them to undergo the trauma of appeals and get the money back.

    3, Stop pretending this is "reform" its making savings and sadly now disabled people are on this endless cycle of misery when a new party comes into power within months "lets target the disabled" this has to end and written into law if someone is deemed unfit for work they are not going to get better then accept it.

  • Jenwren
    Jenwren Online Community Member Posts: 82 Empowering

    There's a very interesting youtuber - garys economics, he's a young, former trader and has two philosphies 1) wealth inequality is at the heart of everything - it's driving the far right rise, the billionaire class, the rage people have, the rising 'isms' etc. That unless we tackle that no goverment of any type or affiliation will sort things out 2) it's no longer about voters who are labour v tories, red vs blue - the only dividing line should be the people who support a wealth tax on billionaires (he's very specific that it's to tax them on their assests not their income/earnings) verses people/govt that don't and he said what they've done - very, very succesfully is get people - red, blue, whatever political stripe, north, south, black, white, male, female etc that we fight amoung ourselves and that keeps the uber rich safe while they make more and more and more profits off us. It's basically his theory. It's interesting.

  • secretsquirrel1
    secretsquirrel1 Online Community Member Posts: 809 Championing

    I don’t know if it’s even true hence I’ve left a comment for scope to answer . It’s simply something I’ve just read .

  • Ross1975
    Ross1975 Online Community Member Posts: 135 Empowering
    edited March 19

    Have the reassessments for LCWRA started already, or will it be April 2026?

    This is what I'm most worried about, I wont be able to cope with going through another reassessment, and it feels like there's a decent chance I'll be classed as fit for work or put into LCW.

  • secretsquirrel1
    secretsquirrel1 Online Community Member Posts: 809 Championing

    that’s what I think too . It wouldn’t make sense as it was mean no such need for carers allowance. But it was in the comments and the content creator said they’ve mentioned emphasis on professional carers . We need scope to explain this and reassure us .

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