No 4 point PIP descriptors results
| Submission ID: 1163212 |
| Date: 2025-04-09 12:00:21 |
| Nickname: Angry? Yes but all despairing and scared |
| Age: 67 |
| Main health condition: Physical health |
| Main conditions that affect daily living: Arthritis |
| 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: Likely but expect to be refused first and having to take to mandatory review |
| Tasks you struggle with on a day-to-day basis: I struggle with any physical tasks and my condition is worsening. My mental health is suffering. Things I cannot do at level at which I am currently assessed include preparing food, washing and bathing, managing toilet needs and incontinence, and dressing and undressing. These to me are basic human needs and entirely the purpose of PIP - to place a disabled person in the same position as a non-disabled person. The 4 point descriptor inclusion came out of the blue to me and my next light touch review is not until 2030. I have asked those who know me well if they thought I could do the tasks above at the level at which I am currently assessed and they all said “no” and I need assistance with “everything”. |
| Expected income you will lose if the Green Paper cuts are imposed: I would lose the whole of the standard daily living component of my PIP, £73.90 per week so just under £3,850 per year. I currently and demonstrably spend every penny - and more - of my PIP on my disability and including aids which do not ultimately take away care needs. I feel that I would be condemned to live on junk food/sandwiches, being dirty due to inability to wash, soiled/smelling of urine and never dressing. If I am without a carer available for a day that tends to be how I am. It is no way to live and totally inhumane. I would expect my mental health to deteriorate quickly and significantly. |
| Expected problems if you tried moving into work, with support from a work coach: Because I am over state pension age, I cannot reasonably expect to move into work and the Government cannot compel me that the do so. |
| Anything else to tell us: I worked (though struggling) as self-employed to retirement age, paid tax and NI and never received benefits until my health changed when I was 60. I am no scrounger but I am now very scared about my ability to live decently. I am becoming tearful and there isn’t a single day when I do not worry about the impact of the proposed change on me. I feel abandoned and cannot understand how a Labour government can treat people like me in this way, and that the goalposts have been moved without any consultation. My own MP likes dealing with business issues and I have no confidence in him assisting the disabled. PLEASE would someone in the disabled world take legal action against the government to try to prevent this measure. It won’t work anyway on the anticipated savings and is nothing to do with helping those who are disabled but simply an attempt to save monies at the expense of some of the most vulnerable people in society. The Government and any MP who supports this change should be thoroughly ashamed at this proposal. It will kill people and that blood will be on their hands. How can they live with that on their consciences (always assuming of course that they actually have consciences which is doubtful in the extreme)? |
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