No 4 point PIP descriptors results
| Submission ID: 1162438 |
| Date: 2025-04-08 20:07:54 |
| Nickname: Lady Luck |
| Age: Over 50 |
| Main health condition: Physical health |
| Main conditions that affect daily living: chronic pain |
| Rate of PIP daily living component: Standard |
| 4 point descriptor score: No |
| Possibility to score at least one 4-point daily living descriptor at the next review: Very unlikely because I live on my own and that has been used many times by DWP decision makers for not giving me an award. I have had to go to tribunal to get DLA and ESA. |
| Tasks you struggle with on a day-to-day basis: I struggle with everything like walking, standing, sitting, bathing, preparing a meal, staying motivated. |
| Expected income you will lose if the Green Paper cuts are imposed: Not enough has been mentioned of those who are currently getting the LCW work allowance as many of them will fail the new PIP criteria and be regarded as fit to work and placed into the same category as those that are fit and able and expected to work more hours and earn more money or face the penalties including having their benefit entitlements cut. They will in effect have NOTHING to state they are disabled. There is already a lot of problems getting work coaches to acknowledge you have disabilities when you are not in receipt of the LCW or LCWRA, and removing MORE people from these categories and taking away their daily living PIP will lead to too much pressure being placed on more disabled people in work who rely on PIP and the LCW allowance to make ends meet and meet the additional costs of being able to work when disabled. The emotional pressure of the change plus the financial burden may prove too much for many people. As I am currently getting LCW and PIP, I could be losing potentially £1,000 a month as I don't have the housing element. Today, 8th April, Starmer said that these changes will change behaviour. He believes that cutting benefits will automatically get people working. If people can work, they would be working. The motivation to do so exists already. They cant and he can not see that. If people are working, they may have to stop working all together as the PIP daily living allowance and the LCW allowance and the LCWRA payment helps them meet the additional costs of being a disabled person in employment. He can not see that. He believes like Reeves, Kendall and Streeting that disability is a choice. |
| Expected problems if you tried moving into work, with support from a work coach: NA |
| Anything else to tell us: Too much focus is being placed on the disabled who can not work. This government and the previous government and the media have done a first class job of portraying them as being benefit scroungers and individuals who are 'taking the mickey.' Unfortunately, they cannot now be taken seriously. Also all mental health has been severely trivialised by too many people also. They don't understand what problems people with mental health in the work place will face. I think that the public really don't care and are in favour of these reforms when they don't realise how much money the disabled UC and PIP claimants are putting into the economy and potentially keeping them in work. The question to the DWP should be how will you be able to finance the in work adaptations for 1.2 million disabled people who will lose either their PIP, LCW allowance and LCWRA when we all get a job as they can't even finance the few tens of thousands disabled people get the support they need in time via Access to Work and Timms said the current funding is unsustainable. The fact they KNOW the 1.2 million jobs for the disabled will not happen and are kicking us into economic oblivion nonetheless needs to be emphasised and also the fact that the £1 billion pounds put aside to 'help us' into work will not work as the average costs for in work adaptations is around £5,000 and for some a whole lot more. So if it did work, it would be in excess of £6 billion. By trivialising mental illness and having the assumption that the mentally ill are physically able and easier to get back into work, they are omitting the fact that a lot of physically disabled people are highly motivated to work but their accessibility needs is extremely high. In short, they risk creating more disability unemployment as well as the pushing a lot of vulnerable people into a very bad situation. |
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