No 4 point PIP descriptors results
| Submission ID: 1165076 |
| Date: 2025-04-10 14:51:23 |
| Nickname: Distressed |
| Age: 53 |
| Main health condition: Both physical and mental health |
| Main conditions that affect daily living: Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME), agoraphobia, and PTSD. |
| 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: Unlikely. Despite working for 38 years, I’m now severely limited by my conditions. ME leaves me fatigued and in pain, agoraphobia keeps me confined at home, and PTSD triggers make it impossible to function normally. Under the new rules, I can’t see how I’d score high enough. |
| Tasks you struggle with on a day-to-day basis: I struggle with constant, debilitating fatigue that leaves me bedbound most days, severe anxiety that makes it impossible to leave my house, and PTSD that causes constant emotional distress and triggers panic attacks. I’m unable to manage even simple tasks like shopping, and I cannot interact with others without feeling overwhelmed. My life has shrunk to the inside of my home, and every day is a battle just to survive. |
| Expected income you will lose if the Green Paper cuts are imposed: If I lose PIP, I’m at risk of becoming homeless. Without the financial support, I won’t be able to afford rent, bills, or even basic needs. The anxiety of losing PIP has already made my mental health worse. I’m in despair, and I honestly don’t know how I’m going to cope. It’s not as simple as saying “go to work.” No employer will take someone who isn’t reliable because of their health condition, especially not when they don’t know whether they’ll be able to work that day, or if they’ll even be able to leave the house. I can barely manage an hour of work a day, at best. Losing PIP means I lose the little stability I have left, and I’m truly terrified of what comes next. |
| Expected problems if you tried moving into work, with support from a work coach: The PIP process has been nothing short of a nightmare. The forms are overwhelming, and I struggle with filling them out because of cognitive fatigue. The assessor didn’t seem to care about my mental health conditions, brushing them off completely. They made claims in their report that weren’t true, saying I was fine when I’m anything but fine. The MR process did nothing to change the outcome, and when it went to tribunal, it was clear that my case had been mishandled. The tribunal did eventually rule in my favour, but the trauma of going through that process, especially when I’m already struggling with such severe conditions, has left me emotionally drained. |
| Anything else to tell us: This whole system is stacked against people like me. I’ve worked my whole life, paid taxes, and contributed, but now I’m being treated like I’m faking it. The process feels like it’s designed to make you give up, especially when you’re struggling with mental health issues that others don’t see. The fact that I have to jump through hoops just to be recognised as disabled is both exhausting and demoralising. The outsourcing of assessments to private companies is a waste of taxpayer money and makes a difficult situation even worse for people like me. Why isn’t the government using the data from the NHS, where all my medical history is recorded? Instead, they outsource to companies who don’t understand my conditions and only make things harder. All this while they know we can’t work, they know we need support, and they still expect us to jump through hoops just to survive. It almost feels like Wes Streeting and others are getting backhanders from corporate giants and the health industry to privatise safety nets, all while stripping us of the vital help we need. |
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