No 4 point PIP descriptors results
| Submission ID: 1163829 |
| Date: 2025-04-09 17:50:04 |
| Nickname: Nomi |
| Age: 47 |
| Main health condition: Physical health |
| Main conditions that affect daily living: ME/CFS Depression and anxiety |
| Rate of PIP daily living component: Enhanced |
| 4 point descriptor score: No |
| Possibility to score at least one 4-point daily living descriptor at the next review: Very unlikely, I would thing given targets the assessors will be looking to avoid awarding 4 points if they can get away with it. |
| Tasks you struggle with on a day-to-day basis: Physically getting out of bed, washing, dressing, cooking, washing up, basic, housework, answering the front door, grocery shopping. |
| Expected income you will lose if the Green Paper cuts are imposed: Probably everything including UC and housing benefit because I wouldn't even be able to keep up with the standard UC work seeking requirements. Even if I can retain standard UC for some time, my condition which gives me a large amount of pain would likely decline rapidly due to fact I can no longer have any practical help. My pain and depression make life difficult and miserable enough, I already struggle with suicidal thoughts, this would make it not worth living and I would succumb to those thoughts. |
| Expected problems if you tried moving into work, with support from a work coach: If I a working person felt as ill and in as much pain as I do on a good day they would call in sick. I haven't been able to work for 20 years. No one would want to employ me with a chronic illness and no recent experience. I'm 90% housebound, just attending an interview would wipe me out for a week. If I got a job I'd soon relapse to the point of being eligible for 4 points but I'd recurve much less income than now because of new rules. I'd cost the DWP, the NHS and social care more. It'd still end my life. |
| Anything else to tell us: My mother is 78 she has early dementia. My brother is also disabled. She's terrified of what's going to happen to us and is trying to work out how to financially support us both, she is far from wealthy. She's provided most of my care as my increase to enhanced is recent despite needing it for much longer. In turn my reason for surviving my intense suicidal thoughts is so that I can at least try to make sure she is cared for once she becomes in need. She worked her whole life, except when her children were small, she didn't retire until 70. Doesn't she deserve better than this? |
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