Upcoming changes to benefits

Mine ignored all medical evidence, my GP was astonished. She twisted what my specialist wrote and blamed my ME on a sick family member. Then wrote but she’s ( meaning me ) ok now . Although there’s no cure . Dwp gave me points for MR but I still went tribunal. The worst was the disabled woman herself. She bullied me and said inappropriate things. Then tried to remove points off me for a question I had been awarded points for by dwp . That would have left me with nothing. They were playing up to the dwp representative who was there and thought she was Ironside. Four of them questioned me as though I were on a murder charge .

hope im wrong but i don’t think they will backdown on anything,just caught a brief piece on Google from the guardian saying that Starmer isn’t gonna give way on anything ,hopefully just a headline getter but I’m not so sure

I am 60 about to turn 61 and severely disabled. I am on ESA (contributory) support group which was awarded on an ongoing basis and the enhanced rates for daily living and mobility for PIP which was awarded for 10 years when I was 59 (I think this is also classed as ongoing). Just had a look at my points and I was awarded 24 for daily living and 12 for mobility.

Does anyone get a sense of what changes will look like in practice? I see three options:

1) The changes will be implemented at review (usually a year before the current award expires)

2) The existing points on the last application will be used to determine rates / eligibility going forward

3) A new application will.be required

What do people think is the most likely option?

Regarding points, I think you need 12 currently to get the enhanced rates but that's moving to 16 (if some news outlets are to be believed) and you require at least 2 lots of 4 points as well as the extra 8 from elsewhere?

this is where they waste money paying for constant assessments. As soon as you get your award you have a bit of breathing space then the worry again

The Green Paper is published on the government website tomorrow at 12.30, Kendall begins her speech at 12.30 also

I read it as 4 points for one question then another for for lower amount . 4 points for one question and another 8 for highest

I think I did this accidently. I filled a form in at my GP to access medical records. All I wanted was really to see recent things on my ap but I ended up with approx 500 pages of my records right from birth emailed to me. I am very tempted to print the lot off when I am next accessed rather than just give recent stuff.

Thank you @ Carbow32

Yep, it's all well and good for people who have either no understanding of the need for it or complete disdain for those who do.

Wish I had my health 😤