Recent welfare cuts

Hi Ghostbuster,

I dont know much about LCWRA but I am pretty sure other benefits are not linked with PIP that would include LCWRA To claim PIP after 2026 you will need to score 4 points in one activity. You will still need to make up the rest of the points as normal I think its disgraceful what they are doing. I have signed the Scope petition and also written to complain to my MP. I doubt I will recieve a response. I am 63 also, I have been defrauded on my state pension. I think I will be 67 years old now before I can claim it and now this !

@Trish9556 HS2… that huge misuse of taxpayer funds passed off as a benefit, forgetting it’s only their cronies the suppliers who lobbied for it who would reap the benefits. Just like post office Horizon or NPfIT. Or the small group of oligarchs who lobby and donate to political parties to get their way, and pretty much own all the mainstream media and use their money to hire clever companies to use social media to influence voters to vote for their cause, such as protecting their untaxed dodgy wealth from new EU tax laws for member countries. Of course no ordinary person would vote to protect their wealth, so they dress up it’s true nature as “sovrinty innit”, amplify existing grievances to get people to vote without thinking to their own detriment. They own all the media so control the voting population that watch the media😏.

Ok rant mode off! If you want more… search for a post I made about Dr Lykoudis, who was fined and forced to retire because he dared to relieve 30,000 people of ghastly chronic pain from a then considered “incurable” disease. He dared to interrupt the gravy train.

@Trish9556 Hope you can find a replacement mylar stick!

PIP is one of the strangest welfare benefits I've ever had to claim.

I am Deaf and my level of Deafness is shown on my audiology tests to be on the cusp of Sever to profound in terms of classification for a potential cochlear implant, though I don't want one.

My hearing Aids are just one step away from the strongest the NHS can provide, so I am very Deaf essentially.

My PIP assessment gave me something like 2 points for this and zero points for mobility yet one of my biggest Deaf related issues is how it affects my mobility.

I can't hear announcements because of all the background noises at public transport stations, can't hear if someone is behind me yelling at me to get out of the way, can't hear employees telling me the next train is cancelled, and I can't hear to make phone calls (for help or guidance) for journeys I'm not familiar with I need someone with me.

I got more points for needing to walk with a walking stick than I did for being Deaf.

If the Government cut my PIP award then fine its money thats actually going straight out of the local economy as thats where I spend it, the Taxi drivers will most likely be the ones who see less, and the NHS will have to start paying to send me home as I do qualify for patient transport services but they don't run in my area after 6pm so the NHS will have to fork out for an individual Taxi as they cannot legally just put me on the train or bus.

I'll have less to spend on food so likely will have to give up the Glutten free diet that currently helps me stay medication free for my diverticulitis, sure go for it as the NHS again will now have to start paying for pain meds instead and maybe surgery.

Cutting PIP, cutting welfare payments in general, is a false economy because the payment levels never were enough to fund a lifestyle of financial investment opportunities and luxury goods.

As plenty of people found here in the uk in the 1980tys when mass unemployment hit home hard, its not a life of indolence and easy money, its always been a pittance paid out under draconian conditions and can be taken away in a heartbeat at the whim of who ever signed you on.

In my life time I've only ever known one person who deliberately attempted to fiddle the system, they were caught with in 18 months after a full DWP fraud team investigation and they got a 2 year prison sentence.

They owned and ran a pub, had a new build house and owned a rather fancy car, they falsely claimed income support as a single parent and claimed they paid rent to what transpired was their partner, so they never ever qualified for benefits or needed them, it was pure greed that motivated them.

I am so sorry that the media have taken and promoted the false idea that the benefits system is routinely defrauded by claimants, it simply isn't true.

The population is increasing and we've been through and are still going through a global pandemic of the SARS virus which is having devastating effects on peoples health physical and mental, which explains why claims are rising along with the cost of living crisis and stagnant wages.

At the end of the day I am now too old and ill to care if they cut my PIP or decide I must work shifts in a coffee shop for a pittance, I'll do it and the results will be hilariously predictable to me and no doubt horribly frustrating for those who try to get me to understand they want their order done in under 5 mins…lol (thats so not going to happen)