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

If I wasn’t in Scotland, I would have gone to the protest in London on budget day. I did heavily consider it but I know I’m not in the right state… my paranoia is out of control right now and I can’t handle crowds. I nearly started crying in Tescos earlier because it was so busy and overstimulating 😅

Absolutely agree with you. Like you, I always worked and due to aggressive form of bone disease became disabled four year back now. Most mobility is gone and need help for personal care etc. (I also have Crohn's - which, with bad mobility doesn't work at all well!!! sorry, that's TMI).

I don't get 4 on any descriptor but 2s and 3s over a range of activities. If I lose PIP and subsequently LCWRA I won't have enough to live on and the outcome of it is that I will die. No question about it. I'm in my 60s anyway but still way off State Pension so I guess I'm disposable. It's not the way I thought I'd go though.

yes, with the current proposals

she should of won the Oscar for best supporting role to a complete psychopath, she absolutely went so over the top delivering her speech, makes me cringe.

if an MP received 1000 emails from their own constituents, they will know they have an issue

Hi Catherine, gosh this whole shambles of a bleep thing is such a disgrace isn't it ! I feel particularly sad for the young and not so young folk who are suffering from very serious mental health, invisible and undiagnosed conditions, this must be really creating more extreme anxiety and it all boils down to money as always 😡

I got a 10 year award in 2017, I firmly believe it depends on the assessor you get, I was lucky in that mine was an experienced Nursing Sister who was kind, considerate and most importantly was very knowledgeable, aware and knew the impact of my severe and progressive conditions on my life without a million questions or trick questions being asked. Not all my assessments have been this way though but I always backed up everything with both, objective ( test results etc ) and subjective ( lived experience ) evidence and have been given the same award each time but with shorter periods in between assessments, plenty of outright untruths documented by them in past ones. My main conditions are not invisible ones, they are ''in your face'' lol she couldn't deny them even if she wanted to. I do believe if the assessors cant physically see something or there are no objective tests for them then they can and do believe everything is just subjective, there lays the problem, in my opinion.

I just wanted to try and explain why I feel I was awarded a10 year award and an up and coming light touch review. I do hope these ridiculous and costly ''improvements'' never see the light of day. Take care Catherine and hang on in there, we have many good folk fighting in our corner 😊