I’m sure many people will have been concerned about the threats to disability benefits such as PIP.
The Government says they are doing this because the costs have gone up. They say it is due to an increase in “young claimants with mental health problems”. Whatever is going on there, I don’t see why this means people with advanced MS should get less help.
I’m not on benefits yet, but I know how vital they are to many people with more significant impairment. I think the sheer number of emails to MPs could make a difference - just contacted mine.
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I think they need looking into. its not so much the people like ourselves its the misuse use of it. I personally know 3 people who have pushed for their youngster to have autistic spectrum. for some reason more are being diagnosed with it.
Its soaring in the UK. if the child gets PIP who gets the money?
I have a young friend who is 16 who was diagnosed with it, and i have family member who was as well. definatley autistic, but he gave himself in to social care and they were amazing with him, and now over 21 he is living in his own place, paying rent the lot and hoping to work in a big company who are interested in him.
the young girl i know is lovely and has no traits of it, is caring, very quick to learn does not go off the handle but mother is pushing for PIP.
these are the ones i believe need weedling out. at 16 the parent should be supporting thier children. she doesnt even go to a special school doesnt need too. can go on bus with other kids
so i wouldnt stress too much. there are however young people who need the support to help pay for taxis and the things to get to school etc.
but yes the amount of young people going trough PIP at the moment is very very high.
Because of it i have friends with MS who cant get PIP its disgusting. I think with things like autisim the parents should be paying for their children, they dont get special things, yeh taxi for school etc, but non of them seem to have the money to make it easier for them to become INDEPENDANT they still rely on parents for everything.
We cannot judge others circumstances as every individual is different whether that’s how we are affected by ms or how another person is affected by other disabilities.Disabled people do need money though as it’s very expensive living with a disability.And it can be hard to work as not all employers live up to there responsibilities under the Equality Act .I recently had an Ocrevus treatment takes all day on a drip and next to me a young girl was working drip in arm as her employer had set her deadlines for that day .Once they put the anti histamine through the drip first it’s like you need an 8 HR sleep .But she tried to work drip in one arm consulting notebook on computer all of the treatment.At the end around 3.30 pm having been there since 8 am she hadn’t met her target and had to go home after the treatment to work.Is this a skiver ?? I think not .Would like Kier Starmer to try this .It’s so maddening.
who is keir starmer he is never here.
they are talking about young people who are going to school who have little disability who even get on a bus. I know those young people. I get mad as hell when the parent pushes them over the years to have something wrong with them they believe it. you might not have seen it i have.
i know this young girl who is now 17 her mother got her a caterpillar cake for her birthday. seriously. she treats her like she has AUTISIM, probably spent ages on google. Yes when she was young she had a few issues very early on, but lots of kids do. Her mother has played on it.
I find her to be a lovely caring young girl, very intelligent and also questioning. she has PIP but doesnt as her mother has it.
the idea of PIP is so that she can use the money to make her life easier if she cant get to college and is too scared for a bus ride she can have a taxi etc. there are mothers out there sadly who are doing this. if i know a few then just how many are there all over britain. these are the ones the government are talking about. i actually think it should be another way, i dont believe the tests are good enough. for autistim. end of.
ALSO IF you joined 4up the amount of people sadly with mental health who are too scared to go to face to face, or have a disability and cant and loose their PIP. i have a friend who has RRMS and because she works part time cant get PIP. but the reason she works part time is she is exhausted and spends her days off recovering. its not fair. she isnt skiving, she even works at home.
i know of people who get PIP who walk miles up slopes and dells and difficult areas with dogs and get mobility pip. seriously, how do they do it. So perhaps it needs looking into.
i think they need to looks at people like the ones with MS, MND ETC who will just over time become more progressive with the invevitability of sadly being house bound. perhaps disability needs to be more defined.
A disability is any physical, sensory, or mental health condition or impairment that can make it harder to do day-to-day activities.
It’s a broad term and covers a range of very different conditions and experiences.
the model is very complex.
Perhaps it should be seperated for medical and mental health, so each is assessed differently? althought to be fair i have mental health issues now because of my PPMS still active and i am living on my own and getting depressed and anxioius and having CBT Therepy.
if you go on on some groups, people say things like if i DONT GET MY PIP, i cant pay my bills, but thats not what it is supposed to be for. CARE. How many use it to pay for care? I do, i spend out of my care allowance most of it towards my care, the government take the other bit.
mobility i am mostly housebound have to go out with someone, so i have paid for electric wheelchair in the house, and one for going out in with a P.A. who takes me. most of my PIP is used for my personal independance.
I HATE this governnment and do not know why its important right now to start this when people are stressed enough as it is. they say they want more young people in work, lol. thats a joke. what WORK? Employees are not taking people on. the priority should be getting the country on an even keel and stop sending aid all over the world, when we have starving people of our own.
end of. LEAVE THE DISABLED ALONE they have enough to deal with.
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