No 4 point PIP descriptors results
| Submission ID: 1165304 |
| Date: 2025-04-10 16:42:59 |
| Nickname: Soph |
| Age: 43 |
| Main health condition: Physical health |
| Main conditions that affect daily living: Severe arthritis since childhood |
| 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: I don’t as assessor use a human as an “aid” |
| Tasks you struggle with on a day-to-day basis: I can’t make any meals, I can’t dress myself, clean myself after the toilet. Can’t brush hair or teeth or use hands. My hands are gnarled due to sever arthritis since childhood. Despite not being able to wash ANY part of my body and despite NOT being able to cook anything I scored 2 on both these points. The assessor didn’t listen to Me, my carer nor anything. They used my husband as an appliance saying he’s the “aid” for bathing and toileting!!! |
| Expected income you will lose if the Green Paper cuts are imposed: £470 a month. Will lose my house potentially and not be able to afford care or to eat. Will lose extra benefits on universal credit and council tax reduction. May as well be dead. |
| Expected problems if you tried moving into work, with support from a work coach: Can’t work as bed bound. Removing money won’t change this. |
| Anything else to tell us: This is an utter disgrace. It costs around a thousand a month to be disabled. Disability benefits are woefully inadequate. The assessments are hard and the assessors unqualified. A physio isn’t medically qualified to know the needs of care. Assessors will just refuse to give the 4 points like they already do. So much money is wasted by people having to have tribunals and ALWAYS WINNING due to the inadequacies of the assessors. People will die and genuinely disabled people will lose their benefits. Stripping disabled people of money WILL NOT make them magically able to work, it will just force them into poverty!!!! It will actually REMOVE disabled people from the workforce as they will lose PIP income which allows them to pay for transport, access to work and aids to help them work. It will also strip disabled people of other things like transport concessions, council tax reduction etc and make already tough lives even tougher. Unpaid carers will lose care allowance, care needs won’t change. The government will end up paying far more for the care that is given by unpaid carers. This legislation is discriminatory against those who cannot work and needs legally challenging. Labour also need to realise that there are 16 million disabled people in the UK. They all have carers, friends and relatives. That’s is a lot of voting supper to go lose. |
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