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I recently migrated over and didn’t have the required ID. They gave me a JC interview but I left a message in my journal and asked for a phone ID appointment and they were fine with that .

Thank you for your kind responses to my enquiry, much appreciated

This is what I’ve been saying. Kendall reckons it’ll be non negotiable, does that mean it will be down to NHS guidelines on lifelong conditions with no cure or assessors own opinion as it is now ?

If it’s up to assessors then back benchers need to be made aware that this is already in in place with the light touch awards. The legal rep who helped me had never heard of it and others didn’t know how it worked so I guess it’s not award that often. Same as they say anyone with less than a year to live , that’s already in place surely? So only real concession is 13 weeks to buy yourself a tent

Is the mobility side not affected by the cuts?

Also, Will you lose lcwra if you don't get daily living? I only scored 4 points on that 😞

The mobility is staying the same just the daily living that's in the reforms. Sorry I'm not sure on Lwcra though

TP only makes sense if someone is transferring from one benefit (eg ESA) to another (jobseeking UC). Ie there's something to transition into. (I am not endorsing this transition if it is forced, just using it as illustrative of what TP should mean and it's complete nonsense with PIP).

For the record, there was no TP offered for people with lifetime DLA awards being forced to shift onto PIP. My DLA was cut completely for a year, and while yes, I did get backpay, I was forced to get help from family until I had that backpay reinstated post tribunal. The problem is there isn't another option for PIP claimants who work. People who are scraping by on a combined income of work salary and PIP and nothing else are really in the firing line here, which is contrary to government's rhetoric about getting people into work. Again, I am not endorsing people being made to get work when they can't - just illustrating the futility, or cynicism, of this particular falsehood.

On the food PIP criteria. This was a real battle for me too. I didn't get the 4 points (which was correct) until my review three years after my PIP migration. This was largely because of the so called autism expert in my tribunal. She decided that my parents had just not made enough effort to teach me (my mother has spent 30 years trying to teach me to boil an egg) and I could do it if I really wanted to. My mother took exception to this and asked for her credentials, at which point we learned she had none at all. She had worked in a care facility for people with learning disabilities but had no qualifications in autism whatsoever. But she still knew with absolute certainty that I could cook if I tried, because I was fully verbal and not intellectually impaired.

This is where the PIP system falls down, because people who don't know anything about the disability are making personal judgements instead of reading the evidence and listening to the testimony of those who have the qualifications or personal knowledge of the claimant.

Even if this goes through, I'm expecting the DWP to be inundated with tribunals and appeals from people who previously were not given the right points but let it go because they qualified overall and didn't want the trauma of the fight. I'm also expecting there to be individual legal challenges over what a severe disability is, as it has no meaning in law - and especially if the outcome discriminates against particular disabilities more than others.

Thank you Charlie ❤️