Wednesday: Statement on Benefits

Sorry to hear what you've been going through mangomungo, hope you're feeling more able to be yourself now. I'm afraid it's another waiting game for us, we'll probably have to wait sometime March for the green paper.

Hi Catherine ,sorry for the late reply . I actually managed to go out today 🥳. I must say I don’t understand it myself really but I think it means the government departments have a spend cap but to keep within that cap the Labour Party would of had to brought in immediate cuts which Kendall wasn’t happy with. I’m hoping this is a good sign . Though I’m may be completely wrong about all that as my brain fogs not great .

There is a man who used to be a pip assessor on another platform who gives extremely good advice ( in my opinion anyway).He seems to be of the opinion that the Government really cannot eliminate the Mental Health element in any section of qualifying for pip for example as it would eliminate people like Veterans suffering from Ptsd.You can't segregate people who have mental illness and grade them based on their diagnosis or how they've suffered or likely to suffer.I have certainly found with my own mental health that it is totally unpredictable now and I feel mental health has so many dangers for people which can be for themselves and to others

J.M are his initials I'm not sure if we are allowed to mention on here so I'll leave it at that

Not too bad thank you.How are you?.

Yes this not knowing is horrible MangoMungo. But at the same time you must look after yourself, nothing can be achieved by punishing your health. Try to make the best of each day + keep your mind off the speculation. When we do know, if it's bad, we'll have to organise a protest or something to make them sit up and take notice. Don't forget, together we are much stronger, you aren't facing this alone x