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I agree and the sooner the better too. 😊

Do you mean the article from I newspaper ? I haven’t read that so I don’t know what they’re saying the changes may be . It was elsewhere that they’re thinking one idea is to keep the 4 points but you pass is you get enhanced. So do you mean they could get rid of the 4 point rule but effectively also get rid of standard care ? So everyone on standard would no longer be disabled according to them . As you say on reassessment we can all lose a point . Thing is they can’t be that desperate to save money as what they hope to save from us they probably are giving to other benefits anyway. Plus the appeals will cost money and any court cases .

I have same problem

Hi Squirrel 🐿️

That didn't sound as though it went very well for you. 😔 I am sorry to hear that.

It's quite true that it's the luck of the draw on the day, with who you get, whether they will be half way reasonable or completely unreasonable.

It is difficult, I agree to get the situation over to them with fatigue and in your case, pain. I hope that you might consider a suggestion from me.

Over many years now, most of the 21 years that I've had M. E. I have used Benefits and Work. Their benefits guides really do help you to word your answers in a way that the DWP will accept.

I'm afraid that their information costs £20 a year but I think that it's a small price to pay if it could save you thousands.

They also do guides on MR and appeals too.

Here's an article from the Fiancial Times that was put on here yesterday that you may have missed. It's good to see that they are backing down a little at last. It needs to be a lot more though.

I believe that the suggestion in the article that ministers may try to use to pursade the MPs who are rebelling against the cuts to back down is very unlikely to work. I think that MPs will want much more generous consessions than that, with what I have read about them.

I hope that you are not feeling too down after your experience. 😊

jul1aorways xx

Morning juls,

Yes it can be quite devastating if you get bad luck during your pip assessment. Even the dwp agreed the tribunal had erred in law . Even the legal rep helping me had never come across anyone so unlucky . Over the years I think the ordeal has calmed down but now we find ourselves back at square one as labour have given the green light to the assessors to terrorise us again. It’s the unfairness in the system that I hate . Anyone who had my assessor would have been treated the same as me as she had no compassion just an agenda to refuse pip to anyone and everyone.
I read the Financial Times piece yesterday. I read it as they’ll keep the 4? Point rule but anyone who doesn’t get a 4 point but has a high score so get enhanced keeps pip. So standard is all but stopped , apart from the 13% who get a 4 on standard. Is this how you read it ? Passerby reads it differently in his reply to me above. It’s confusing to tell as I couldn’t read which post of mine he/she responded to as the comments reply section going a bit weird this morning.