No 4 point PIP descriptors results
| Submission ID: 1163246 |
| Date: 2025-04-09 12:15:26 |
| Nickname: abi |
| Age: 49 |
| Main health condition: Physical health |
| Main conditions that affect daily living: ME POTs 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: unlikely |
| Tasks you struggle with on a day-to-day basis: I struggle with daily living tasks like cooking, cleaning washing up eating sleeping standing. |
| Expected income you will lose if the Green Paper cuts are imposed: £295 a month will be lost. This money helps me with the tasks that ME prevents me from being able to do, and that enables me to manage carefully to work 15 hours a week. To lose this payment will mean I have to make up the amount in working hours in a second job, which would be hard for me to find as I have a lot of time off work, I currently was on sick leave for 10 months and im starting a phased return to work, I had a huge ME relapse due to being asked to work a couple of extra hours a week during exam season which topped my pacing over the edge and made me sick for 10 months. my job is flexible and its a school so I get lots of school holidays off to recover. and I work 3 hours a day, and that is my limit of ability, I have to have support at home in order to be able to do this work. I know that if my PIP gets taken away, even though I have 12 points in my care element, they are made up of 2 points in the boxes. I have to top up my rent as the UC housing allowance doesnt cover the whole rent. So to lose my pip would mean finding a second job which would be impossible for me to do on top of my 15 hours, and this would make me very sick, and I would end up bed bound, unable to pay my rent, I would lose my home and not be able to afford any help and support. Or pay for any of the tings necessary that keep me as well as I can be. I will be slumped into poverty, ill health and homeless. |
| Expected problems if you tried moving into work, with support from a work coach: I do work but with a lot of help and support which is supported by my care element of pip. the consequences are written above |
| Anything else to tell us: I feel I am not being helped into work, I feel I will be used out of my work as I will be too sick to work as I cant work more hours than I do, I am working the max I can possibly get away with. I really would say 15 hours is too hard for me, and I would be better with 8 hours a week. But I need to do what I do and have so much help to achieve this. Without my care element I am set to lose everything that is my life. How can someone who has 12 points in the care element lose it all and another person have 4 in one box and be safe. I am so unbelievably worried and upset that my life and health I can see is going to fall apart and there is no way I can hep myself. Its like being in the middle of the ocean on a ship thats sinking. |
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