1,000 new PIP claims per day?

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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.

They are absolutely not getting PIP for just acne,and writers cramp.

The telegraph is strongly right wing. It wants you to think everyone claiming PIP is getting hundreds of pounds for having a pimple.

That doesn't make it true.

I think you hit the nail on the head first time around.
It is depressing !

I congratulate you sincerely for being able to work. Part time is better than staying at home. I had to give up when I found myself clinging to lampposts in the wind. There are no seats between house and bus stop and in the end I just had to give up. The struggle is hard, because I never know when the nerve leaves my leg and the other isn't strong enough.

You probably look OK to everyone as well!

This thread shows that many people do not understand how expensive it is to be disabled. Last year I was further diagnosed with eye disease and it suddenly crept up on me this past week, and when I wake up it is like looking through frosted glass for a couple of hours.

It is going to be even more costly when I lose sight completely.

Of course they are not. If they were, then they are employing the wrong people in the benefits office.

What I find alarming about this whole issue, and the debate, and vote in Parliament yesterday is that so many people are now convinced there is an army of claimants who don't need disability.

The government has managed to convince the public that it should be possible to reduce the costs of benefits because so many are not as disabled as they say they are.

They have stirred up hatred against the disabled, and there is no doubt they will not save much on the compromise vote yesterday. We don't even know how they propose to get people back to work, always provided there is work out there.

How can people not see what the government is doing to the people? How could people be so stupid as to believe that, when the application book is so large, and the medication we are on should be enough to show our disabilities. What good is having a job if you have a neurological disease where you can be legless in an instant and the workplace has to look after you?

We come up against people who are not keen on helping in case we ask again and make a makeshift of them! On just that one issue independence is key to survival. Unless you have limbs missing or contorted faces, people really cannot recognise disabilities, and now our lives are made worse because the PM thought the number of shamming applicants is enough to pay for the things they put first in their pecking order.

Who on here can tell us what work we should be doing despite our disabilities.

I wonder if they make the form book for ticks because they employ low paid school leavers who just count the ticks?

Possibly why the government thinks too many get through who shouldn't. It is the lazy people they employ!

Seriously though, the PM has made the public resent us, by trying to convince the voters that they could save money, and I don't think they well save anything now, except, perhaps they might employ disabled people in the civil service and pay them for working, thus reducing the benefit spending.

This 'robbing Peter to pay Paul' attitude is no way to run the country's budget.

Try again. People on UC get the WFP.

That is why the signs say NHS Dental Clinic

In school. In context it is math.

Only if their partner is pension age

Would you say that this government, in attempting to cut spending has alienated the public against the disabled?

There is a mother languishing in jail for putting on social media - wrongly of course - that someone should set fire to the hotels (mush the same as we might say '.. should be shot if they do that...' sort of thing) which led to almost three years in jail, yet the PM and his government have done the same thing to disabled people.

For the sake of the occasional applicant who slips through, we are now abused by the public.

In the countries of their birth, they are of military age.

Which is exactly the point I was making. Not every area is the same and we are not in Scotland
I wonder if the fact there are no nhs trusts in Scotland makes a difference in terms of a persons chances of support in this area.
I have no idea tbh.

The DWP makes it clear that you can spend the money on whatever you like, you do not have to explain. You just have to need it.

You love popping up. Talking shit and going again dont you. How about respond to commenters responding to you yesterday?

You are woefully misinformed.

I would agree with this.
Governments are pitting people against each other.
Whether it’s the elderly or disabled they seem to be doing a good job of it too.

They should be careful how they are whipping up hate for certain sections of society.
They need to do their job and get the country on its feet again without the hyped up speeches.
However I think the main issue is our News, journalists and definitely Social media!

Would you believe that many of the tickets to ride the boats are paid for in cryptocurrency through Iran?

I'm not debating their age, I'm debating it's relevance to their asylum status.

I would believe or disbelieve it, I have no idea how people pay for them. Again, it has no relevance?

Jesus Christ, Lucy Connolly & Fighting Age Men. Anyone got a bingo dabber I can borrow?

I think this is one of the articles @Viviennemary is referring to.( the telegraph is behind a paywall so can’t see it )

If this is the case then presumably there’s either a very good reason for it ( I haven’t found one ) or the system is completely broken.

@deadpantrashcan No they are not - look at fightback there was recently a status posted about putting only your worse day on the forms. Many charities advise against it.

Math in the US
Maths in the UK

@PickAChew too.

Someone on here (can't remember the thread) says it's counted if you list it even though it may not be your main condition. Asthma is listed as one of mine even though it rarely causes problems. I certainly wouldn't get pip if I just had asthma

Astonishing, isn't it? Because neither acne nor writers cramp are data collected by the DWP, the only people who actually have PIP data. Anyone would think it was made up, wouldn't they?