Family member awarded enhanced pip - AIBU?

My goodness! So it definitely sounds like she might be too unwell to work. I'm assuming mental health and/or alcohol addiction issues.

A good example of failing, underfunded and/or badly managed/ineffective mental health services, social services, and substance issues services.

Perhaps if there wasn't so much PIP fraud, there'd be more money for the things that disabled people actually need.

This is what you said. The level of fraud in the disability benefits system is less than 1%, nowhere near paying for the level of support through motability that you seem to think is reasonable for the princely sum of £75 a week. And I absolutely did not say it’s a ‘free car’ I said the mobility allowance when used for Motability provided the claimant with virtually care free use of a car. And as has been said before, if you meet the thresholds, you can apply for funding for more complex adaptations.

Ok

Didn’t read the article, was just speaking generally.

@Garlicandchilli given that you seem unable to understand that PIP is not an out of work benefit, I'm disinclined to believe a word you say.

The hate for disabled people here is chilling. There's so much complaining about means testing the WFA, but the moment it's about disabled people, everyone is totally cool with cuts and dehumanising things like unworkable voucher schemes. Some on here need to look in the mirror and realise they are seeing the face of hypocrisy.

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Well it isn’t relevant in this case because the woman in the news has been convicted for fraud and has to pay all her PIP money back. She claimed for physical reasons and was doing pole dancing and yoga, there were no MH factors at all. End of.

She face timed me to show me her black eyes!

As I said if you don’t like people calling you out for saying they have posted something when they haven’t, don’t do it in the first place.

PIP has absolutely nothing to do with being able to work. It’s an entirely different assessment. So if you don’t know which benefit is meant for what, then how are you so sure she doesn’t qualify ?

Absolutely

Calling you out when you posted I said something I didn’t isn’t a row. If you don’t like it, don’t do it in the first place.

Added in to that a learning difficulty is not the same thing as a learning disability. And many people mix up the two when talking about them. Although someone may have both.

I'm going to step back it's an emotive subject and I'm not looking to row with anyone.

Whataboutery that’s actually relevant here. If someone makes a claim for PIP entirely based on their mental health, DWP won’t give a monkeys’ about what they can physically do. Yoga would likely be seen as beneficial - dunno about pole dancing though, but if they do it for exercise, that potentially helps with mental health. This example proves that it’s dangerous to make assumptions that someone is cheating. As with the poster who was convinced that because the woman she knew could cook a meal for her family she must be claiming PIP fraudulently. Unless she was claiming she couldn’t cook, she wasn’t actually doing anything wrong. And there’s no way of knowing that without knowing the details of the claim.

WRT to Learning Difficulties and accessing support/benefits it depends on their nature ie specific vs global and their severity ie from mild/borderline vs severe/profound

It's a bit of a catch-all and needs clarification to further any discussion

Again, I didn’t comment on everyone. Nor did I mention what level of support your wife in particular needs. Insinuating I did or that I said dyslexia was the only learning difficulty is what is nonsense. If you don’t like me calling you out for saying something I didn’t then you shouldn’t post it in the first place. Try reading my actual posts rather than making your own version up.

Right well anyway. I think what I'll take from this thread is that because some people shoplift, everyone , every single one of us shoppers, should be banned from from shops. Even though the majority of us don't shoplift.

She will have a relapse around the time she needs to be assessed, otherwise she cooks, cleans, dog walks, babysits, meals out, all day drinking in pubs and at home with the family in the garden, foreign holidays where she gets so smashed drunk she falls down

I don't think I know this level of detail about even my closest friends' lives. Amazing. How do you know about what she does on her holidays? Does she boast about getting smashed and falling down? Post it on Facebook?

I know the difficulties my dw faces I can assure you they are not nonsense.
I'll tell what's nonsense was a work coach suggesting there maybe a cure for osteoporosis... that's the rubbish claimants can be up against.

She may be an exception but I can absolutely guarantee she is well enough to work.

PIP isn't an out of work benefit. Some who get it are unable to work. Others do work (often because the PIP enablers them to).

To add to my post above, the whole family know exactly how to play the system.

If you don’t like the reply, don’t post nonsense.

Gtf 😁