To dob in family member - benefits

These posters would have loved that - a world without disabled people. Fortunately most in society have moved on dramatically.

Did you want them to be bed bound before they deserve it?
When they're bed bound, actual carers come and look after them provided by adult social services
Did u know that 🙄
Pip is literally to help people be independent

Or pain. You might be physically able to walk but it might be incredibly painful.

OP unless you are with this person 24/7 365 days a year you have no idea of their difficulties.

And in the middle ages, the people who receive PIP would likely have not survived. They relied on family and the Alms of the church or support from the feudal master… so most died of starvation and abuse. Am rather glad we don’t live in those times.

The PIP bill is high, but there are many other benefits we can look at capping and reducing, and many many other areas of the public purse that need addressing before we throw the compassion and core moral values that used to be what made Britain great.

I think there is zero chance that that "distant relative" exists.

It's not about being forced to work though. It's about people having the same opportunities as others. I agree that there's been an attempt by our government to link disability and worklessness and to position work as the cure all for disability. But if you'd like to work, disability shouldn't be a barrier imposed by society and employers because employing disabled people is too much trouble.

You can’t just claim you’ve got arthritis and the doctors will go ‘’oh, okay then!’’ The person will be checked and diagnosed. Are you really that dense? Why are you lying? 🤣

You have mentioned social duty, morally torn, and things like that as if this is your responsibility or decision. It might help to think of it as none of your business instead.

I'm sure many of "the disabled must be forced to work" brigade would be the first to complain if my quadriplegic relative was was wheeled onto a plane in the pilots uniform.

If anyone receives PIP or DLA, and it’s been to tribunal, then you can be reassured that many professionals have looked at it.

I get DLA (never been migrated because of age ) and had to submit reams of evidence, which I did. It was physical stuff, so pretty simple to get lots of evidence.

I rarely talk about my health, except to my nearest and dearest, and I get help in as and when I need it. It’s not compulsory to talk about your own health, or justify myself, nor is it to get daily help. The need just has to be proved to those that make the decisions. .

I also pay tax. 🤷‍♀️

She doesn’t need to prove a thing to you or your spiteful relatives.

Best that all of you just get on with enjoying your own lives, and leave her be.

Not your circus, not your clowns. 🙄

I too know of a distant family member who do this , he says to doctors he is suffering with arthritis all over his body can hardly walk, what the doctors don't know is, every weekend his at the nightclubs dancing all night and getting drunk.

You need to get a hobby, which might lead to a life!

Disabled by what? Purely by their condition or also by society's preconceptions, biases and prejudice? We've seen a lot of ableism on this thread alone. I know from my own experience how hard it can be to get and sustain work with a disability.
Many, if not most employers pay the most basic lip service to making the kind of reasonable adjustment that would enable disabled employees to be on an equal footing to those who aren't disabled.

You can’t self report you are struggling to dress to your GP and have it submitted as evidence without any reason why you would be struggling though. That’s utter nonsense. I could go and tell my GP right now I can’t dress myself and I can’t make a meal but him saying said does not make it evidence, unless I am dating I cannot do it because am there is a medical reason for that. Self reporting doesn’t make evidence the way people seem to think it does

Hello, is that North Korea calling?

Hello, is that North Korea calling?

Mind your own business - who the fuck would do this to a family member? You sound vile

I'm usually the first to call out for reporting benefit fraud but the way you have described this person, sounds like me.

I have a physical health condition but to most people, I probably seem like I'm doing just fine. because I want to portray that image. I travel on foot, decorate etc etc but because I HAVE to

What people don't see, however, is me sobbing in pain, is me on the days when I don't leave the house because I literally cannot walk, is me frustrated because a task really needs doing and I am unable, me feeling like shit because I'm having to ask for yet another favour from my family, me not wanting to try dating again because I feel like such a burden on people

They don't see me sleeping on the sofa when I can barely walk because I'm scared that if there was an emergency in the night, I wouldn't be able to safely get out of the house

They don't see me depressed and hating myself, for something that is completely out of my control

They don't see the times when I'm struggling physically and my entire kitchen side is covered in washing up, when the bin is overflowing, when the floors are filthy, when there's no clean clothes for me to wear. They don't have to live in this mess and hate every second but be unable to do anything about it

They don't see how much I spend on medication, pain relief 'gimmicks' because I'm desperate, additional gas/electric for baths, extra laundry costs and sanitary products because some days I can wet myself multiple times as I can't physically move quick enough to get me to the toilet, on pre-prepared food because I can't manage to stand to cook, taxis when I have gone somewhere and can't propel myself back, additional treatments which probably sound like pampering but when you can't bend your ankles or cut your own nails because your toes are solidly curled under your feet then massage and pedicures become essential

I won't get a promotion at work because I can't be physically present in the office

Or maybe he has been investigated, and found to be doing nothing wrong, just a thought. Either way, your repeated attempts to disrupt his life is not working, so just leave him be.

Some posters would definitely have preferred to have live in the middle ages.

Have you suddenly become a guardian of the public purse strings?

It’s none of your business.

My brother in law, on the face of it, would seem to ‘manage’, yet had MS and he had good days and TERRIBLE days. Trust me, PIP doesn’t pay out loads despite what you might read in the Daily Maul.

Because they are disabled obviously that is the point.

You do wonder don't you?

You believe disabled people should be humiliated in public. How horrible. What would you do make them wear a badge? Tattoo their heads? Make them sit in stocks so that abled people can throw eggs at them? People with your attitude make me sick.

Public stocks on the village green. Bring your own rotten veg?