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  • jul1aorways
    jul1aorways Online Community Member Posts: 397 Pioneering

    Hi Everyone 😊

    Due to having had some very difficult external circumstances affecting my life and that of my partner in recent months I have made the decision that I contribute less to this community.

    It certainly means that I will be around just not as much as I was. I have ME/CFS, an anxiety disorder and depression and the events that have happened have all made my health conditions a lot worse.

    You may have read the good news that my partner (who is also disabled) and I had. With him being pension age and the fact that I am not having my next PIP review until pension age, myself means we are exempt from the cuts.

    Although we are really relieved, we still had to go through the same scenario as you are all doing until Timms announced that exemption a week ago.

    Knowing that was an act of calculated cruelty is nothing I take personally but it is still having a very negative effect on me, despite doing all I can to not think about it.

    That has bought everything to a head unfortunately so I am doing my best to make my life easier. However, I do not want you to think that I won't be here to help you fight these appalling decisions because I will, just not as much. ✊

    I do hope that normal service will resume shortly on the forum. Things seem to be improving.👍

    I send you all my very best wishes especially @noonebelieves @pinkrose and @secretsquirrel 😊

  • noonebelieves
    noonebelieves Online Community Member Posts: 705 Championing

    Please stand in solidarity against the proposed Disability Benefit Cuts


    Sign these petitions and Share it widely. Back all these petitions calling out this injustice. Let’s send a powerful, united message: We will not be ignored.


    Do not scrap the Work Capability Assessment (WCA) -Parliamentary Petition 


    Halt Government Cuts to Disability and Low-Income Benefits -Change.Org


    Halt Further Limitations on Disability Benefits by Labour -Change.Org


    Halt the Proposed Benefit Cuts -Change.Org

    STOP THE DWP’S WAR ON DISABLED PEOPLE -Change.Org 

    In Solidarity ✊

  • FeistyPigeon
    FeistyPigeon Online Community Member Posts: 356 Empowering