Family member awarded enhanced pip - AIBU?

Well if the government have their way by the end of 2025 it will be about ‘spying’ because the legislation for banks to monitor the accounts of benefit claimants will come into effect. And it won’t be just sickness/disabilty claimants, it will cover all benefits, including state pension and child benefit recipients. So those of you advocating that disabled people need to have their disability spending monitored to see if they’re using it properly, let’s see how you like having your spending on your child monitored in the same way.

Some do, trust me as I know one, and he’s told me he has had to exaggerate to get it. I’m not saying he doesn’t have an illness, he does, but he had lied on his form. He told me and he was also worried as his ex girlfriend reported him to DWP and he received a phone call. I’m sure there are some people who just make assumptions that people are lying, but some people actually do just tell people they’ve had to bend the truth. I don’t know anyone who has completely made up an illness, but have made it out to be worse to qualify for PIP

Most people on benefits are paying everything electronically not via cash. And even if they are using cash, how is that fraud?? If I withdrew all my benefit payment in cash, what does that actually prove??

The government will also never be allowed to just look at people's bank accounts whenever they like just to check their spending. There was a proposal to allow more monitoring of bank accounts to prevent fraud in the form of undeclared income or exceeding the savings threshold. This was in no way related to people withdrawing cash. And didn't go ahead anyway.

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I have heart disease, diabetes and thyroid problems, I was refused PIP because I can walk 200 yards🙄, gets my goat, it really does 😡

It is not about spying.

It is about benefits not having a cash value only a monetary value.

Nope. MN prefer to let it stand so posts can be challenged.

What an absolutely disgraceful thread.
The top level of PIP is £720 per month, £300 of which can be swapped for a car (a new one, whoop). It took me twenty years to be awarded this even with an Rheumatoid Arthritis reading of 800+ (the average is 6). I worked full time (70 hours per week) all of my career. When I fell ill with fibromaylgia on top of this I had to fight for treatment and benefits to live on whilst they tried a new treatment plan. I couldn't get out of bed let alone work.
I have been a higher rate tax payer for thirty years. I am the tax payer!
Next week I am having a cleaner because I can no longer bend down. I'm paying for it with my pip. Shock horror.
Earlier this year I suffered so badly I wanted to die, yet the tax payer would lose the £1m I will put in the pot before I retire. If I return to good health I will not get these benefits which is right and proper however anyone looking after me is paid £2 an hour. That is something people don't know about or care when they do. It's shameful.

Yep. This is why benefits like PIP, DLA and AA were created. It gives the disabled person the freedom to spend the benefit on whatever their individual need may be. Disability isn’t a one size fits all thing, and disability benefits are meant to reflect this. What works for one person, may not work for another. So depressing to realise that many posters here don’t realise that.

Exactly! I don't believe for a second, that people on PIP go around crowing to friends and family about their benefit, how much they get, and how they 'faked' it.

Motability is a terrific scheme, agreed.

This person knows absolutely sweet FA. Regardless, I’d love to have all student loans and child benefit and the winter fuel allowance paid into a particular bank account that the state can spy on, sorry I mean ‘monitor’ to make sure it’s being used correctly.

This is being petitioned to change too.

Honestly, moe and more I think it is unwise to confide in friends or family - or anyone - details about personal finances. It can cause resentment which may not be shown openly but festers away.

This has always been my stance. It amazes me how free some people seem to be with their private financial affairs though. But saying that, I do know someone who talks rather too freely about their financial business. I think that nobody needs to know my business in real life.

Rosscameasdoody · Today 18:15
Nope. What a fucking awful comment. The motability scheme is reserved for those who are awarded the enhanced rate mobility component of PIP because they have severe mobility problems. Christ people. Stop reading the Daily Fail, do a bit of research into the eligibility criteria for PIP and apply a bit of critical thinking before you post from sheer ignorance.

Yes there are some fucking rancid comments on this thread... by some equally rancid posters.

As has been said, it needs deleting. It's fucking horrible!

I hate to correct you, but state pension actually is classed as a benefit - it’s been defined as such since it was created. Sorry.

For now.

Businesses are going cashless and I believe benefits will too.

I am not ignoring what posters are saying my POV is that cash is not needed anymore and I believe the benefits system would be better if it was a system which only allowed debit card transactions or bank transfers. No cash withdrawals.

A cashless society is the way forward for all transactions not just benefits.

No you make no sense.
Benefits are cashless. They are bank transferred.

Your DC should have a special bank account that the government can monitor to make sure he’s using his student loan for appropriate purposes.

I suspect you’ve made it up. But if not, and you feel like you do report it.

Yes indeed. And if a cashless society is created it will make it all the easier for government to keep track of everyone’s spending habits. Not just those of benefit claimants. And you seriously want to hand over this kind of control voluntarily ?

This exactly!

Tell me you know fuck-all about fibromyalgia, without telling me you know fuck-all about fibromyalgia.

What shitty, ignorant comments from you. I am embarrassed for you!

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@YOYOK you do know state pension is not a benefit, are you thinking of pension credit?

At least it exists.

Some people would literally die to get it (and tragically do).