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DLA to PIP=rip off

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zorro56
zorro56

Not sure who ATOS are and no idea why after the government used an private employment agency was a majour flop they have another outside agency determining people's disability? surely your GP, Consultants and Adult social service know what you are like and your needs. I'm getting worried because I've heard a lot of stories of people losing their benefits or mobility cars. I've been disabled since 1992 due to a severe illnes and and have had my high rate mobility middle rate of care undefined. Now I have a so called health professsional for a home visit. If you are not liable to improve why do the government put us through even more stress and threatening our ability to employ carers? Thought they were supposed to look after the poor and needy. Disabled people are lucky if they get £10,000/year and they are trying to cut our money. They already stitch you up, my wife is my full time carer and got paid carers allowance, until she qualified for her pension, now she gets £12 pension credit instead of £55 but doing the same job. She gets her pension as a right not abenefit.

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  • zorro56
    zorro56

    Posted

    Today's news Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC) said DWP’s “underhand” decision to impose the cuts had again shown its “contempt” for the judiciary.

    A DPAC spokesperson said: “It has become increasingly obvious that disability benefit entitlement is no longer based on need, but on how much the government is prepared to pay.

    “Disability tests, whether for ESA or PIP, are fine-tuned to give the results the government expect in terms of expenditure, which determines the number of people entitled to disability benefits.

    “The legality of changing the law in such a way needs to be addressed as it is a key pillar of our constitution that parliament makes the law and the courts interpret it.”

  • mike09523
    mike09523 zorro56

    Posted

    Hi,

    It does seem these days that if there are cuts to be made then dla-pip benefits are there for the cutting.

    It was a master stroke to get the general public to believe that out of the hundreds of thousands of sick and disabled claimants, only a few thousand were genuine, just a matter of rewriting the rules to find them out. I would be very interested to know just how much this has cost so far including the mandatory reconsideration, tribunal and court costs, not to mention dwp overtime and training and refresher training g of all the staff. That's separate to the hundreds of millions to Atos Capita and Maximus or whatever their called.

    Mike.

    • hypercat
      hypercat mike09523

      Posted

      It's called divide and rule.  Politicians  have been doing this for many years.  It's just spin with smoke and mirrors.  Unfortunately it does fool many voters. 

       

    • belgravia
      belgravia hypercat

      Posted

      Sadly some voters have not got the rationale hypercat and form their prejudiced uneducated opinions from certain parts of the media and from certain politicians.
    • StevefromBrum
      StevefromBrum mike09523

      Posted

      Totally agree Mike

      In my opinion, the public have been "sold" the suggestion that only a few thousand claims are genuine but not only that we are seen as "guilty" until we prove our innocence and are awarded what we are entitled to. We are interrigated (sorry, "assessed" not on our disability but on our capabilities. Decisions are made by people who have no knowledge of the claimant and are not health professions who judge us on the word of the assessor. We have  to go through the stress in fighting our corner for which we have no right to claim compensation.

      To paraphrase Ghandi, "all that is needed for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing" Fortunately there are good people who are not intimidated and are prepared to seek reconsideration of their claim, go to tribunal, and to support each other in discussion boards such as this. Together we are united and together we can and will win what is rightfully ours.

      Steve 

    • StevefromBrum
      StevefromBrum sukes

      Posted

      Sukes

      I`m sitting here laughing my head off

      I couldn`t stand coz its not in the DWP PIP citeria! Altho if I did, it would have to be as a candidate for the Monster Raving Loony Party but don`t.think I`d be very popular somehow.

      Thanks for that. You`ve brightened my day and helped relieve some of the doom and gloom of very serious issues.

       

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