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  • WhatThe
    WhatThe Online Community Member, Scope Member Posts: 5,476 Championing
    edited April 2025

    Passerby Posts: 182 Empowering2:58AM

    No one really cares about Keir Starmer's faith., as everybody knows that his faith is dishonesty. However, what's more important is that, apart probably from you, I haven't come across yet a single person in the UK saying that they've faith in Keir Starmer.

    But Keir Starmer doesn't have a faith! He does not have one! 🙄

    Those hiding beneath a cloak of respectability know how to fool people. They've done it for years.

  • onebigvoice
    onebigvoice Scope Member Posts: 994 Connected

    I am also in this situation where, ignoring that I took the DWP to court, and that I requested specific documents in a pdf format and that over the last 5 years have amended that pdf file because of serious error on their part already admitted in the Upper Tribunal. I now have to reapply because the judge decided that there was no alteration in benefits that could be given and struck it out.

    I asked for pdf documents (which I have, but wanted the DWP and court to realise that just changing a benefit entitlement does not change the assessment. This same department is continually making mistakes and is costing lives by withdrawing help both financial and otherwise.

    After a life long battle with stomach cancer since birth and the fight over the last 8 years (up to 2022.) my friend who I became an appointee for died awaiting the back payment and change of assessment details.

    He left a wife and two children, was given properties that did not suit him as access to the property for emergency services was paramount with other problems he had.

    I had him rehomed,adaptions to the "new"property, cooking and Bathing facilities changed to adapt to a wheel chair height. Yet he still lived a life and enjoyed his kids even though he was divorced.

    NOT, the NHS that caused this, since in applying to CCCouncil, and placing him back on the radar as vunerable after heart Attacks and fits, they assisted in helping him get back on track, abandondend by the system of assessment for finances over assessment for treatment.

    I thought that is why the NHS was bourne, to give free medical treatment at source to all people that live here.

    It is the government that alter this attitude and make money from the system that should put that money back into the system to support "under funded" sections that do not always get the funding they need and at the right amount at the right time to assist benefit users.

    Yes I said benefit users, since there would be no point in using the NHS if you did not need help and would "benefit" from some help as to what to do. ITS, not a cost cutting excercise, but the use of technology to advance and beat things like dementia, Cancer, and polio to name some.

    Have you asked whether the amount of money being spent in defending the cases that require rework, a MR, or a Tribunal, only to have to appeal again and go to an upper Tribunal costs against the amount of money being spent supporting "CHARITIES" LIKE SCOPE, MIND, and even the NHS?

    YOUR time has come to be heard, as you have the power to change the future, and do not need to try to predict the future but do what it says on the box, "What is the cost of a life?" "Why do we pay N. I. if American companies are offering to get you better treatment and to jump the NHS queue for £25/month?

    In the small print:- Don't do pre-existing conditions, don't do lung conditions if you have smoked or your parents smoked, if you fart and it smells could be an underlying condition of Cancer of the Bowels, (sorry I put that one in.) my point they will always find a way to take your money until you need to claim…. And by the way I don't live in America, where you have to BUY your own medical insurance or get nothing.

    Australia has this system where your N.I. contributions automaticall get this and all you pay for is things like anestetic or the guy that gives you that needle, but, it is priced accordinly as this is not the profit side but a simple costing, which has been BULK BOUGHT.

    I want a choice.

  • WhatThe
    WhatThe Online Community Member, Scope Member Posts: 5,476 Championing

    OBV, the DWP warned assessors that claimants might change their behaviour during assessments in order to reach the 'new' threshold (new as of 2016). That is bound to prejudice those assessments.

  • WhatThe
    WhatThe Online Community Member, Scope Member Posts: 5,476 Championing
    edited April 2025

    Ranald Online Community Member Posts: 1,006 Championing4:56AM

    Not you as well? For dog's sake, I might as well run off and join the Hari Krishnas

    Have you inadvertently confessed to a running ability despite being a full-time wheelchair-user? 🏃‍♂️ 🤸‍♂️ 🏋️‍♂️

  • Catherine21
    Catherine21 Online Community Member Posts: 9,578 Championing
  • Catherine21
    Catherine21 Online Community Member Posts: 9,578 Championing
  • WhatThe
    WhatThe Online Community Member, Scope Member Posts: 5,476 Championing

    No. She helped IDS get his work done.

  • secretsquirrel1
    secretsquirrel1 Online Community Member Posts: 2,052 Championing

    do you mean in regards to the 4 point rule but they knew in 2016 ?

  • sarah_lea12
    sarah_lea12 Online Community Member Posts: 442 Empowering

    I'm not against immigration , but I just watched a video on facebook, a landlord rang his council because has been offered 6 year contract with his council to rehouse illegal immigrants , with an extra percentage of rent paid , and the tenants get free rent , council tax, tv licence, broadband, water, gas, electric , they are not allowed to work so they get clothes money etc and all their white goods are provided brand new .

    This is grossly unfair to everyone in the UK, everyone pays more than enough for utilities, this is just a pxxx take and all while we disabled are living in anxiety and fear of losing it all .

    This is not balanced .

  • Catherine21
    Catherine21 Online Community Member Posts: 9,578 Championing

    Oh thier really ramping up the stories people on pip can get 36 grand to do thier homes up ???

  • Catherine21
    Catherine21 Online Community Member Posts: 9,578 Championing

    Well I won't start foaming at the mouth speaking in tounges I leave that for the weekends !!

  • Catherine21
    Catherine21 Online Community Member Posts: 9,578 Championing
  • bton1968
    bton1968 Online Community Member Posts: 156 Empowering
  • Amaya_Ringo
    Amaya_Ringo Online Community Member Posts: 417 Championing

    This is so similar to my case, I am so sorry you have to go through it all again :(

    My MR took two words from a seven page statement from my disability support officer at the time and ignored everything else she wrote. She was absolutely livid and told me I should be seeking legal advice if I didn't win at tribunal. I did, thankfully, but like you, the so called 'disability' expert was smug and completely ignorant of autism in real terms. She was also really rude to my parents and implied they had either spoiled me or neglected to teach me skills.

    My mother is not the kind of person you say that to. LOL.

    I was lucky that my review was done paper based, but I sent them my statement from my tribunal and pointed out all the errors in my original case. I don't know if it had an impact, but all they did was phone my mother (my phone advocate) and clarify some points with her before awarding me PIP.

    I never feel fully like my claim is secure, though. I miss DLA so much. I felt truly independent then, and made SO MUCH progress in my life which one year of appealing PIP unfortunately eroded :/

    @WhatThe, I wonder if that 'warning' about claimants (ie the implication we are all waiting to defraud the government) is actually to obfuscate the very real possibility the DWP will instruct to award fewer points in categories where claimants previously obtained 4.

  • secretsquirrel1
    secretsquirrel1 Online Community Member Posts: 2,052 Championing
  • secretsquirrel1
    secretsquirrel1 Online Community Member Posts: 2,052 Championing

    My review form is due anytime now. I’m hoping for once it’s paper based. I will have to fight for 4 points now though . The backlog will be huge. I’ve actually said on here it made me wonder if during my last assessment 2 years ago the 4 point rule was in the pipeline as she steered me to certain answers for 2 points .

  • sarah_lea12
    sarah_lea12 Online Community Member Posts: 442 Empowering

    I had a re-assessment form sent to me as i have two new conditions , sent it back on Tuesday they received it I got a text saying so . I hope they won't phone me as I sent in tons of proof . I heard reassessments are taking five+ months , and this is why the DWP said it will be faster to reassess .I hope I get 4 points this time , that way when or if I need to apply again then I will already have the 4 points . Stressed out .

  • Catherine21
    Catherine21 Online Community Member Posts: 9,578 Championing
  • secretsquirrel1
    secretsquirrel1 Online Community Member Posts: 2,052 Championing

    fingers crossed for you 🙏🤞

    So how have they got the backlog down? It was 1-2 years I read . I do think they’ve been doing more on paper. I hope mines on paper this time . I also have new conditions now and will fight for 4 points .

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