The official 2024 budget discussion.

Why don't they just concentrate on getting one thing finished before starting another. So many people waiting still to move from DLA to PIP and I imagine most of those would be better off on PIP.

Fearful people are easy to control, they want us living in constant fear , it is one thing after another .

in my short life i have yet to meet a poor farmer only bad business decisions now if the government stopped all the subsidies paid to them ie compensation for tb reactors the hedge cutting blah blah endless list subsidies farmers may address there own problems and rectify them

After my last pip interrogation I collapsed, and for months after was paranoid, I swore my house was bugged. The "assessor" was a v junior nurse, she would not listen to a word, she replied back each time with her slant on my answers, if I said ten feet she'd reply "so ten meters". I corrected her so many times.. she asked if I used my mobile to call my mum,I said she's here every day I've no need to, I rarely if ever use it, as my sister sees to everything. She replied "Well, your speaking to me now".

Now where the heck do you go with that nonsense.? I was really getting more and more annoyed. I thought "you are deliberately being obtuse."

Almost two hrs later I was exhausted, frazzled, had one mother of a migraine, and the panic and paranoia were immeasurable.

@Doglover2 I remember my 2019 review, apparently I didn't have mental health conditions anymore despite having no treatment because what I have tried hasn't helped, he tried to make it all about my fibromyalgia, excuse used all the way through was "the claimant did not report significant functional problems with this activity either on their questionnaire or at consultation, there was no evidence to suggest otherwise" and used no specialist input, and no medication as excuses as well. Both the DWP and the HCP were told why I don't have treatment or medication.

A GPFR was requested by the CM but because Capita messed up and requested it from my previous medical centre which there was no excuse for and which they accidently admitted when they responded to my complaint which gave me more to be angry at them about, it took them 2 months to request it from my current medical centre by which time my award was ending so the case manager in her infinite wisdom after disputing the report went a long with it and lowered my points. MR obviously failed, it was overturned at the appeal stage without having a tribunal, but they still wouldn't acknowledge that I cannot engage with people properly which I received 8 points for originally, they claimed I spoke to the HCP fine.. which was a load of rubbish because I had a panic attack and disassociated, as someone who was abducted by a paedo and endured other forms of abuse as a child and adult including emotional neglect as a child, I am not comfortable with people, I struggle to be around them and to talk to them, this was a male HCP, I'm worse with men and how do they know how I spoke to the HCP, they weren't there!

I have my next review now and it's made me really weary but this time I made sure everything relevant was mentioned as previously Welfare Rights filled out my form and hardly put any info on it which Welfare Rights were trying to make stupid excuses for.

I also had issues with my ESA review in 2021, they kept booking me appointments with a man when I'd asked for a woman, they did it 6 times, so when I complained they allowed me to do a new ESA50 because the one they had was 4 years old and Fightback had filled that in poorly, so I did it with the help of my son, advocate, Welfare Rights and a guide, Welfare Rights were actually useful that time and pointed out descriptors that I'd fit. When my son sent it in via email for me, they requested a GPFR and gave me a paperbased assessment and moved me to SG.

My migration from ESA to UC was perfectly fine and went smoothly.

Excuse the rant, but I find the DWP and assessment companies as well as the medical centre and local council all make my anxiety and depression worse because they cause me nothing but stress, people with various conditions shouldn't be put through this rubbish.