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Chrissy53
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I have joined this post as I have a disability from seven year's ago which forced me to leave my lovely job as a social worker. I now have Lupus LSE and more recently Fibromyalgia. Fortunately for me, I worked long enough to use my superan pension of 36 years. I also have my state pension to live on. I have tried to claim PIP on three occasions with no points awarded even though some day's I can't open the milk bottle. I've given up on PIP. This tax year I find myself paying tax working my incoming's and out going's I am £45.00 worse off than last year I also this year have to pay full rent ad all the benefit's I now receive is £12.00 per month council tax. This lousy Government is killing us off.
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Have you tried putting your details into one of the online benefit calculators to see if there is any more help you can get ?
Claiming PIP has been made intentionally hard, it is a test of functionality and you need to understand the system, criteria and points scoring for each activity
Have you taken the self test on the B&W site ?
https://www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/personal-independence-payment-pip/pip-points-system
No wish to be indelicate but PIP is not available to people over state retirement age.
I hope we can be of more assistance
CR
Welcome to Scope's online community! It's great to have you on board.
As @CockneyRebel mentions above, an online benefits calculator will be able to help give you an idea of which benefits you can apply for. We have one available on our website which you may find useful.
You mention that you were unable to claim PIP three times after being awarded 0 points... Did you ask for a mandatory reconsideration after finding this out? We have lots of information about PIP and appealing a DWP benefits decision on our website, which may be of interest to you.
I hope this helps. If you have any questions, then please do get in touch!