March 2025

I just want to say as well carrying on from my last post . Rachel Reeves wants to get everyone back into work ,How is this going to pan out with people who have Mental health problems , Depression anxiety PTSD ADHD ASD . Scitsophrenia Bipolar disorder etc. Will employers really want to take on people with these conditions…

does anybody know if ongoing awards for PIP when you are an OAP will be affected with the new reforms / changes from the spring statement announcement

Does anyone think that if the pip changes go ahead ( I can't see them changing as we're an easy target ) that the reviews might just be dragged out even longer to stop more payments. I like everyone have had mine extended for a year letter did say it might be extended longer. They've already had my forms 6 months. Must be…

Morning, I am a retired 70 years old male in receipt of PIP as I have been for some years. With the proposed changes to PIP and I understand everyone is different. What happens to retired PIP claim.

Can someone from Scope reply please. I want to know if what was announced today set in stone or can it be stopped. I am so scared that I am going to lose my PIP which runs out again in 2 years and my car which I rely on. Without it I am housebound. I want to know if this has to go through the courts or if this is just…

Hi, name says it all knees gone, massively overweight (but trying to get down to size of a munro lol) recently got pip and like most am worried about changes.

Anyone else really worried about the PIP changes? I have mental health and physical health issues and am in no way able to work, else I would be doing so. First warm home discount, PIP and now the motability scheme (not that I could ever afford to use it for a car) and I feel like the finger is being pointed at disabled…

As someone with mental health problems and who claims PIP, I'm worried about the upcoming changes made by the government. I suffer from depression and anxiety. This particular development is unhelpful and stress-inducing.

Hi my partner is registered blind we he lose his pip and universal health elements thank you

myself and i was talking about my life who i am then recent topic discussion was about british disabled people on benefit [DWP] and [PIP] ETC labour government wants british disabled people send them to work. physically disabled wheelchair bound past 30 years and now the living cost gone expensive food and bills the whole…

Rachel Reeves to announce further benefit cutsLiz Kendall, the work and pensions secretary, was forced to seek further cuts after the Office for Budget Responsibility rejected her welfare savings estimate

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I don’t understand d what’s happening. Does anyone?

So as I understand it the previous attempt by the government to change LCWRA descriptors was deemed illegal because sure enough it was in fact only an attempt to save money and not to help or access people too sick to work…so the recent government announcement to merge the WCA criteria with PIP( and non work related…

Hello I are over pension age and just wondering if anybody knows if people over pension age are going to loose there pip with the goverment new rules relating to pip

both of these politicians should be removed immediately from office because firstly they saying about pip benefits cuts and secondly 50,000 thousand jobs have to go so how aspects people who on pip benefits universal credit NHS more more jobless people and 1.5 million unemployed 20,000 homeless some of them our boys women…

is this being affected as well if I’m already on it? Will I need to score 4 points in one category like on pip?

Hi i wonder if anyone can help me i was granted a 10 year pip award 3 years ago which runs to 2032, with the changes due for nov 2026 does that mean i have to to got through a new claim Thanks in advance Paddy

nice to see mps have given themselves a pay rise, taking their salaries to 90k a year, after targeting disabled people to save 5 billion! Wonder what the total cost is for that rise for all mps?

James Taylor, Executive Director of Strategy at disability equality charity Scope, said: “The biggest cuts to disability benefits on record should shame the government to its core. They are choosing to penalise some of the poorest people in our society. Almost half of families in poverty include someone who is disabled.…

Does anybody in the group if I put a pip claim in last year and I am existing long-term pip benefits user because of disability they've advised me because they were inundated before all this came out the green paper that basically it would take a year to look at the claim. Does that affect me or not to redo everything and…

so I’ve had rheumatoid arthritis since I was born in 1972 and thinking about pip and the future changes I’m just wondering how to approach my answers. Let me give an example Taking nutrition, I use built up knives and forks, that’s a slam dunk 2 points for use of aids, if I didn’t have them I believe I could still manage…

I am on higher PIP and become a pensioner this November. My award is due to end Feb 2033 but I am wondering if new rules will affect me and do I inform them when I become a pensioner

Can anyone explain what happens if your on cobtrbution based esa and in the support group. From what i understand the payments will stop after 6 months. I cannot survive without this payment !!!! Does anyone know if this is true.....

Well yesterday my daughter aged 22 broke down with chronic anxiety about the benefit cuts although she has a few health conditions including autism she was refused pip a couple of years ago and took it to heart saying they think I am lying so refused to go through the process anymore she is doing her modern history masters…

Hi, just wondering what it will mean to me, I am 68 and I am entitled to the full PIP because of my cancer. I got a 10 year award about 4 yrs ago. Will it be taken away from me do you think? Will I have to be assessed again? When I was awarded PIP at the start I did not have a telephone assessment, I was awarded it going…

Hi everyone. I already receive high rate on both parts for pip . I have already scored 6 points on one descriptor and over 12 in total for daily living . Will I still have to be reassessed when the new pip comes out . Surely I could just fill out the form again and as long as the descriptor is the same I would qualify…

Hi so the new 4 point pip change late next year. Is that for new Claims first . Or is that for everyone? Say if I get my pip reviewed this year and get awarded for 3 years . Will I have to have another assessment next year when the new 4 point system comes in ?

I received 2 points on every 10 qustions I'm in a wheelchair and have a brain condition and a heart condition and can't move around on my own I did get 12 points on mobility part but carers part i got 2 points on every qustion what am I going to do ? I need 4 points to pass Do i need to pass away to get accepted

https://www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/personal-independence-payment-pip/pip-self-test