Upcoming changes to benefits

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  • Popster2020
    Popster2020 Online Community Member Posts: 35 Connected

    So 2 x 4 points plus an extra 8 from other areas i.e. could be 4 x 2 points to make the 16?

    Any indication of what will happen to those on ongoing awards? It was hard won 2 years ago, and it looks like it's going to be lost.

  • carbow32
    carbow32 Online Community Member Posts: 256 Empowering

    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.

  • tcellmutation
    tcellmutation Online Community Member Posts: 341 Empowering

    Think he's gained confidence since Trump started going against the grain over the pond

  • Gregam
    Gregam Online Community Member Posts: 16 Listener

    Thank you @ Carbow32

  • secretsquirrel1
    secretsquirrel1 Online Community Member Posts: 2,052 Championing

    I could be wrong but I read it as 4 points for one question plus another 4 points making 8 lower . 4 points plus 8 for highest making 12 .

    If I’m wrong I’m sure someone will correct me but right now we don’t know what going to happen. I certainly wouldn’t worry if you have a long award . Right now they still have a backlog anyway.

  • geckobat
    geckobat Online Community Member Posts: 195 Empowering

    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.

  • secretsquirrel1
    secretsquirrel1 Online Community Member Posts: 2,052 Championing

    starmer has no personality or ideas of his own . He just sucks up the energy of other people.

  • tcellmutation
    tcellmutation Online Community Member Posts: 341 Empowering

    Wish I had my health 😤

  • secretsquirrel1
    secretsquirrel1 Online Community Member Posts: 2,052 Championing

    Same here. Last assessor actually lowered mobility and raised care so they made a saving of about £50 a month. I went to MR and got it back but was advised against asking for length of award extension at that time . The case manager was really good so I’m upset I didn’t ask at the time

  • Vulcress
    Vulcress Online Community Member Posts: 111 Empowering

    Take with that pinch of salt

    but the rumour flying around on Social media apparently "leaked"

    LCWRA payments will be frozen at its current rate for a time not disclosed whilst the non

    LCWRA has increases, So basically that part will be cut = "You sure you cant do a bit of work"

    If correct they were seriously going to Freeze both payments??? when they openly accept the cost of living is hammering the poorest in society.

    The huge question again if correct will MP's be happy ? the way prices are increasing

    Its going to mean even more people pushed into poverty I would argue for many it would be destitution.

    To offset would they bring back the proper social fund? so people could apply for Grants on items like clothes/Underwear/Washing Machines etc

  • Andi66
    Andi66 Online Community Member Posts: 1,380 Championing

    My brother lives in France and he is unable to work. He sees someone once a month like an advisor, they help him getting oil for his heating, new tyres . He goes to the foodbank. But they seem very helpful not like here. He is appalled when I tell him what's going on here

  • bench
    bench Online Community Member Posts: 171 Empowering

    Yes they will for people with visual disabilities ie wheelchair user, but the disabilities that can't be seen, ie mental health, they will not look after, that's in my option, is country and the government are going backwards, as much as 40 years, it's unbelievable that they can't get away with it

  • Popster2020
    Popster2020 Online Community Member Posts: 35 Connected

    Sorry, I'm being dense here. But 4 from one question and 8 from another or 4 from one question and then 8 points (made up from various questions). As you say, nothing confirmed.

  • geckobat
    geckobat Online Community Member Posts: 195 Empowering

    This is what I suspect too because it's so much easier for them to look at any less visible or invisible disabilities and dismiss them.

  • Vulcress
    Vulcress Online Community Member Posts: 111 Empowering

    Direct from Beth Rigby

    One government figure told me it would result in some conditions, such as "milder mental health" or "lower-level physical conditions", being ineligible for PIP.

    But they stressed that those with more severe conditions and who are never going to be able to work would be protected and cared for.

    It's coming back to the same question many have asked in this thread who is going to decide

    the cut off point?

    Protected and Cared for? like the months of endless stress, the non stop rhetoric that had right wing papers drooling and loving the word "scrounger" "workshy"

    The really sad thing about this if they actually just spoke about #brexit and the disaster its been just something as simple as making sure goods and services align with the EU would provide the UK Economy with 2.2 % Growth. Just cutting back red tape and actually getting a viable solution sorted until a main party leader decided to make the case to rejoin the EU fully.

  • secretsquirrel1
    secretsquirrel1 Online Community Member Posts: 2,052 Championing

    that’s my worry as ME and fibromyalgia are invisible

  • secretsquirrel1
    secretsquirrel1 Online Community Member Posts: 2,052 Championing

    I think it’s 4 points one question plus 4 points made up from any other questions

  • secretsquirrel1
    secretsquirrel1 Online Community Member Posts: 2,052 Championing

    you can request they only reconsider certain questions and say you’re happy with whichever question you gained points on . The one at my tribunal kept asking if I wanted them to look at a certain question again as she knew if I lost the points I’d lose my lowest care. I said no and she had to accept that.

  • bench
    bench Online Community Member Posts: 171 Empowering

    And there throwing out the narrative to the general public, that most people are faking their MH issues, and trying to paint us a fraudsters ,that are robbing off the tax payer, like they did to the man working cash in the hand in 80s to feed his children, I love Rachel Reeves or Liz Kendall to sit in my head for just one day, where getting out of bed in a struggle, and you hate yourself for it being a struggle and just want a so called normal live ,and work, but sometimes it's not the simple, like I said if they they their criteria through , this country has gone back 80s, after such a big deal make about mental health just a few years, and it's still the biggest cause of death of men under 30, same on them all, and they will have blood on their hands

  • Holly54321
    Holly54321 Online Community Member Posts: 31 Contributor

    Has everyone been writing to their MP or you waiting until the announcement tomorrow?
    Don’t know whether or not to bother at min as it might not be as bad as we all think 😞 or atleast I hope.

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