Upcoming changes to benefits

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  • Vulcress
    Vulcress Online Community Member Posts: 24 Contributor

    It's an utter farce but with people being crushed in the process.

    There's an understanding with the district nurses if the wound on my tummy opens

    it splits open around 10 inches, it takes 2 of them owing to the severe risk of infection

    Sepsis nearly had me in December, very often blood bags form and the burst like a B Horror movie, It nearly soaked the GP, We did warn him. Can you imagine trying to explain to them this let alone if one wanted to look which I will be making sure they do.

    A shower is like an SAS military operation, it took my sister 6 weeks to learn how to do all the dressings, the General rule if custard like Green starts coming out then its an Emergency

    Its not spoken about in the media but the undertone is consultants are pushovers.

    No 3 of them went really nasty with me when I said I wanted it written down if I stop breathing again No dont intervene, then when I fully explained everything they saw this is not living. Worrying about the energy bills, when the bed linen is all full of muck , all the items the new wheelchair is a monster for taking energy, so is the new "Mobile" cushion for the chair

    460 PPM the last energy bill was, 10 items are no longer provided by the NHS since 2011

    If you have Chronic wounds they wont give Dry silver dressings, only ones that look like snot

    utterly useless if you need to keep wounds dry.

    The impact this condition has is so bad the doctors are using the photos to train students to show them so hopefully children will never have to go through the same as me thinking it was more sinister.

    but there's only around 20 people in Europe with it , the dealings with the DWP have always been a nightmare, I need to make contact with them to change banks and I am utterly terrified

  • secretsquirrel1
    secretsquirrel1 Online Community Member Posts: 429 Pioneering

    I think in my case the person who was advising me said as long as you got your full points for award it doesn’t matter. Well it would now. I think the assessor used tactics such as ignore that I can’t wash upper body and concentrate on the fact that I need other help such as getting in the bath. It makes me think was she aware this could be a problem in the future as she gave me an award of less than 2 years extending by dwp

  • WhatThe
    WhatThe Online Community Member, Scope Member Posts: 3,517 Championing


    Catherine21
     Posts: 4,188 Championing9:07AM

    Under tories we wouldn't of been reassessed

    Catherine21 Posts: 4,188 Championing9:07AM

    Already happening this is worse than I ever imagined under tories we wouldn't have needed reassing

    NOT true!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Let's stick to facts

    🙏

  • Zipz
    Zipz Online Community Member Posts: 1,740 Empowering

    I can't see Reeves lasting as Chancellor, irrespective of welfare. Changes to the Cash Isa alone will lose bye-electiins.

  • secretsquirrel1
    secretsquirrel1 Online Community Member Posts: 429 Pioneering

    that didn’t happen in my case , she concentrated on getting in the bath and washing below the waist . I now know why. She also switched how far I can walk to how long for in minutes. My conditions fluctuate throughout the day and pain moves so one day I’m in agony with one arm then it moves to the other etc . It’s difficult answering questions when my symptoms change every day

  • Santosha12
    Santosha12 Online Community Member Posts: 488 Empowering

    Morning everybody, after 2 hrs sleep last night I needed to get my finger out, figuratively speaking 🤣. So I've emailed Keir Starmer, Rachel Reeves, Lucy Powell, Angela Rayner, Liz Kendall, Lisa Nandy, Wes Streeting Diane Abbott, Hillary Benn, John McConnell, Jeremy Corbyn, Stephen Kinnock, Andrew Cooper, Yvette Cooper, Annaliese Dodds, Vicky Foxcroft, David Lammy, Ed Milliband. It's took hrs as had to do from my phone can't get on email on my PC 😬 had to resend to quite a few as received alternative email addresses off some at Westminster not constituency 🙄

    Wasn't rude but I didn't pull any punches. It wasn't anonymously sent and in part possibly brazen - stating I wont be clicking any tick box 'Accepting Work Commitments ' on UC as I've not embellished, exaggerated or been dishonest about my health conditions and I don't intend starting now. Was a bit 'War and Peace' but I've had to live through my story so so can they.

    I don't expect to hear back, if ever but especially today as I expect they won't see the email as they'll be busy in conflab working out the announcement tomorrow and probably more important things to do 🤭🙄. I saw earlier on here someone kindly shared something on at 2.15pm on BBC Parliament today so I'll try and watch that. I do hope everyone is OK. I've emailed Scope for James Taylors email address as ideas to put to him re Equality Act etc.

  • Maggie37
    Maggie37 Online Community Member Posts: 44 Empowering

    Think this one will go to the wire. They’ll be tinkering with changes until tomorrow..and I think likely be watered down? Makes you wonder what the original version was like.😳 I’ll never vote for this shower of bandits again, they bear no resemblance to a Labour Party and indeed no resemblance to any ‘centre left’ party in the world.

  • emc123
    emc123 Online Community Member Posts: 103 Empowering

    So is ManFromLondon correct and Basic not lcwra is what they Meant when talking Reduction?

  • tcellmutation
    tcellmutation Online Community Member Posts: 327 Empowering
  • Albus_Scope
    Albus_Scope Posts: 9,140 Scope Online Community Coordinator

    We don't have that answer @tcellmutation unfortunately. It's speculation currently.

  • secretsquirrel1
    secretsquirrel1 Online Community Member Posts: 429 Pioneering

    she needs to back to customer complaints, those phones won’t answer themselves.

  • secretsquirrel1
    secretsquirrel1 Online Community Member Posts: 429 Pioneering

    I thought they were reducing lcwra and increasing basic rate . Then elsewhere I read there won’t be wca so no lcwra . We all have to engage and it’s to the work coach to decide how much we are capable of . This of course can’t be legal or safe as even assessors need some medical knowledge if I’m right. Not only that but if they’re forcing sick ppl to engage with work but cut our money we will surely just be placed on basic rate as looking for work and get the higher rate then . So where the savings be ? Hope that makes sense .

  • Zipz
    Zipz Online Community Member Posts: 1,740 Empowering
    edited March 17

    They're certainly not Labour Party I joined and paid into. I want a refund! Labour isn't socialist or vaguely social-democratic now. They are well to the right of Thatcher's "wets". I think you're correct. There'll be more tinkering after Oral Questions in the House this afternoon.

  • charlie72
    charlie72 Online Community Member Posts: 96 Empowering

    I can't listen to that women speak, if my tv wasn't so new i'd have thrown my cup of coffee at it yesterday, but price of coffee is too expensive too so I just sat and fumed at her horrible grating daleck voice. Is she even human , iv'e heard shes from the planet Skaro where the dalecks are from……..exterminate(disabled people probably)🤣

  • luvpink
    luvpink Online Community Member Posts: 1,384 Trailblazing

    @charlie72

    I agree.

    She is an awful woman with a smug look on her face.

  • Maggie37
    Maggie37 Online Community Member Posts: 44 Empowering

    😂 Remember when they first got in and they were accepting freebies right , left and centre! Showing off their new outfits in press shoots and taking tickets to concerts and footie matches. We should have known what was going to happen…!

  • Martinp
    Martinp Online Community Member Posts: 7 Contributor

    if they make me attend a job centre to see a work coach I will probably have to crawl on the floor and end up in hospital.

  • Middleton
    Middleton Online Community Member Posts: 160 Contributor

    Does anyone know if Poppy12345 is still a member on here?

  • Ross1975
    Ross1975 Online Community Member Posts: 85 Empowering

    I think maybe they do for PIP.

    I thought you were talking about being reviewed for LCWRA, as on my award letter for LCWRA it has no review date, it just says we may ask you to attend another work capability assessment in the future.

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