1,000 new PIP claims per day?

[flashbac]

Is this true? (From someone who is naturally cynical of government info.)

If it is, is there something else behind the statistic? Is it because people have to reapply or something like that?

This is from the government website:

"Monthly PIP awards have more than doubled since the pandemic, rising from 13,000 to 34,000 - a rate of around 1,000 new claims per day, or the population of Leicester every year."

I find the statistic unbelievable.

PIP needs to be removed.

The severely disabled looked after and everyone else needs to get on with life.

🥱💤

And how do we look after the severely disabled without money?

If pip was removed adult social care would have to do their job. That would be A LOT more expensive.

I mean the way I see tax avoidance is that it's me keeping my own money.

The government encouraged confusion os PIp, DLA, ESA, UC and other benefits all assists their cuts.

It's like the way the Tories bigged up their shiny new Bereavement support payment and focussed on the inclusion of younger widows and widowers and managed to gloss over the fact that they absolutely slashed the amounts that people would have received on Widowed parents allowance.

Confusion allows divide and conquer.

I get PIP for RA and numerous other conditions. Without it I wouldn’t be able to get to work! I’ve only ever claimed benefits once in my life before this. For a short time I claimed the dole, I had to sign on and say I was actively seeking work white being 8 months pregnant!!

Why because cancer and cerebral palsy are “real” disabilities. Cerebral Palsy can be very mild and not impair someone much. Autism can be a debilitating impairment, even if it isn’t physically obvious.

Either the population has become sicker or there is greater take up. I assume it's the latter.

What does on the dole look like?

This is such a stupid comment some people are severely disabled and some not as much. Why don’t people educate themselves before talking rubbish like this?

How do you define severely disabled?

I was wondering the same thing. Some of these people that the poster is seeing, could be shift workers, or anything, for all she knows.

And the huge in between ?

Every single time.

If someone doesn't even know the difference between PIP and DLA then they have no business having an opinion about it.

At the risk of being banned, only a patronising git would say something like this. We do not need "looking after". Some people do need a great deal of support, but many "severely disabled" people work, volunteer, and contribute to society in so many ways. We are supposed to have got past the attitudes of the old days that consigns us to small lives and "does s/he take sugar". FO with your patronising insults.

Says someone who doesn't claim it I'll bet 🙄

Severely disabled looked after by the government.

Everyone else responsible for themselves.

Of course.

Having no idea that tomorrow, next week, next month, next year etc they may find themselves desperately needing PIP or their child needing DLA.

I hope you dont need support one day and find nothing there for you.

What an ugly attitude

And the huge in between? You're not either severely disabled or able bodied

Try using commas next time you type something.

But society doesn’t run like that.
If someone doesn’t want to pay UK taxes then they shouldn’t live here, work here, or benefit from a UK market. It’s despicable that someone could have such a low moral compass to have their cake and eat it, whilst the disabled are getting this sort of attitude towards them constantly.

I have said the severely disabled need to be looked after- quite rightly.

Defined as?