Scope’s Online Community

Hi guys, new here. Needing so e advice. Been motability scheme customer for 7 years now. No probs until recently, 8 weeks roughly…i hit a curb and car was unsafe to drive home so police took me home and had my car taken into a police compund. They took it in as a breakdown. Motability ended my lease and sanctioned me for 4…

In this age of having a housing crisis, I'm amazed at how many abandoned properties exist in the UK. Not sure if anyone is aware, or watches on YouTube a guy called Adam Mark's explores. He uploads a new explore every Sunday normally, and has been running now for roughly 6 years. So basically he discovers and explores…

If I'm due to get paid today Wednesday 2nd sep but the dwp had to recall my payment from going into old bank account on Friday afternoon and the following Monday was a bank holiday will I still get my payment on the Wednesday 2nd of September?? Please can someone help me

I saw that someone managed to get pip to use email for them. I have massive anxiety and a phone phobia so at email address would be amazing. Can anyone help me with this please? My review is due 9th September so I don’t have long ☹️

So today I was supposed to have a priority call back which was arranged by Child Social services because of the situation im in.But of course they haven't called!.Ive realised too that this long email I sent yesterday about my repossession to the landlord didn't send and there is no address to send it to.Ive spent hours…

hi!

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/aug/30/11th-century-conquest-man-scandinavian-norman-army

If your partner constantly checks your phone, social media, and messages, is that: A. A sign they care about you. B. A sign they don't trust you. Let me hear your thoughts. 👇🔥

hello :) I have joined scope in the hope of getting some advice. my nan sadly passed away last year, and I was her carer. she had a stroke over a decade ago, which left her paralysed down her left side. she also had the onset of vascular dementia, which continued to deteriorate over the years. she moved to a care home when…

My grumble for the day. Has anyone here been noticing letters in the mail have been or are being delivered late in recent months? Just another example recently was a birthday card was sent to my girlfriend from London the week before her birthday, but she didn't recieve it here in Cornwall until 3 days after her birthday.…

After having studied the Equality Act since Royal Assent, I find that the Retail Universe and Local Authorities are making many, many errors, at least in my humble opinion and understanding. I seek a partner, or even partners in crime, so to speak, to draft up class action lawsuits against a select few, to start the…

hello everyone good to be here

The NHS’s own measure of patient experience, the 2026 GP Patient Survey, shows people with neurological conditions continue to face significant inequalities in access to and experience of care compared with the general population, highlighting the need for a national plan for neurological conditions. People with…

Hello Does anyone know any disability employment organisations in Manchester that help people with finding voluntary work?

Hello Scope Community, I chose my username to reflect what I feel is what we all tend to feel and suffer! I should have used Prince Charming, really, but I guess that would not work with the same impact and would make me sound bigheaded ;P

This is an opportunity to join a Community Advisory Board (CAB) that will guide and inform research conducted by the Women's Cancer Department at UCL's EGA Institute for Women's Health, grounding that research in the lived experience, perspectives, and priorities of people and communities affected by it. Joining the CAB is…

Hello, I rang PIP on Friday, but even though I gave them my national insurance number and address they could not identify me. I have lived at my address for 36 years, so it shouldn't be a problem. They sent me a text this morning saying I have to contact them before 5pm to confirm my identity, but due to it being a bank…

hello, i am 18 years old and i am studying level 3 business and i am currently going into year two of the course. having both cerebral palsy and psychosis, i am genuinely scared to leave college afterwards because ive heard that young people are struggling to find jobs. it makes me frightened because as a disabled person…

Had one of these last week for PIP expecting a brief conversation checking my ID , payment accuracy and whether or not my condition / s had changed. Turned out to be a lot of more intrusive than I had imagined - questions about my functional abilities ( along the lines of a full blown albeit mini PIP review) Given that I…

so yesterday i discovered that the government is upping their game of removing or limiting the private ownership of vehicles, for those of us not under a rock this is part of agenda 2030, i personally have been warning the public of such things for years and been laughed at, but now they are stepping it up a gear, in a low…

Hello Just received new disabled person's bus pass, with carer, which lasts one year. Puzzled as to time as have had disabled person's bus passes for three years in past. Ten year Pip is due for renewal next year, might that be why? Am age 67. Am hoping to be awarded a further ten years Pip. Have lots of medical evidence…

Hi I live in Northern Ireland was wondering if anyone could tell me the waiting time for a WCA telephone call I have submitted a UC50 form as well I’m getting UC standard at the moment but the 3months wait runs out soon Many thanks

Hi Everyone, I would like some advice. I had my PIP reward for over 4 years. This year I advice Pip to change to my health that I been diagnosed with ADHD. I had assessment and now they took everything away form me. I'm so devastated, could any one Advice what I can do!!! How ADHD make my health better now 😭😭😭. Thank you 

Hi all . Hope everyone is doing ok ? I am wanting to study GCSE ENGLISH & MATHS . As distance learning can someone advise please. Many thanks in advance

Big hello to those who've joined us over the past couple of days: @andi894, @areason2smile, @Bajanqueen17, @candy1982mac, @CrystalRose, @Emmanouil, @kaceydavison, @Kjaye767, @Missyoda1977_, @Pebs, @Purike, @rachjac34, @shirlzxx, @Tayview509 and @winstar1! Hope you've been enjoying the community so far. Just let us know if…

Hi I was ill health retired in 2015 got a pension which is now 425 pounds a month finally sorted pip out my husband retired early last year and became my carer did not know about ESA till recently would I be able to claim I'm 61

Morning all I hope your all well? I've just had a needs assessment done. I'm absolutely gobsmacked by the social worker commenting on my possessions saying thats expensive, she also made comments about the flat isnt bad as she's seen worse . There is a mess ever where. Flat hasnt been cleaned since corvid. She then said…

Hi Im due to get my LCWRA in my October 2026 payment with universal credit payment. My first fit note was from May 4th and I had my assessment and was awarded on July 22nd 2026.Do I get a backdated payment from May 4th 2026 or will it just be the standard £217 ?

Hi we have just had our first online UC review. However, we filled it in incorrectly, we corrected it online on our journal yesterday we got a message this morning saying we have to attend the job center next week to take proof of our accounts because my partner got some backpays from DWP last year we have declared all…

Good afternoon scope family, because waiting blood tests, waiting for GP to give appointments and now the bank holiday, I will sending my work capability questionnaire for esa late. Has anyone got any information what I can do. Thank you.