To be terrified about PIP?

[BobbyBiscuits]

I've tried to blank all this out for ages, but today it hit me when the government basically are saying I'm going to (they want me to) have my PIP cut off?
My main illnesses are severe depressive disorder, general anxiety disorder and severe anorexia. I've severe PTSD symptoms and also think I may have ADHD but have not been able to get diagnosed due to phobia of MH services since I got sectioned.
I now have physical symptoms also and severe osteperosis which I put on my last forms. But had no assessment for several years.
I'm praying this is BS from the Tories and they can't do it anyway as they'll be kicked out.
Or could labour still continue this assault against disabled people?
It would halve my already tiny income, other half is from ESA, and they could kick me off that too even though I can't do anything!?

What do people think?

I can't open it, can you please write it one more time?

Well, if she has additional financial needs for her autism and adhd, then she can get vouchers for those needs as well. She doesn't need cash.

You see the Tories are so dim they don’t realise that if you don’t provide adequate MH care or SENd provision young people get worse not better.

My dd has an EHCP too which is about as much use as a chocolate teapot as there is no send provison for her.

I don't think the 1 in 4 people being disabled is nuts.. Like you said, not all will be claiming benefit for that. And we have an aging population where age related disabilities are a thing.

We need to be humble. Being able bodied is temporary.

Please tell us what vouchers someone should get for being autistic?
Is there a special "autism voucher" thing?

Its a House of Commons briefing paper recently published so up to date. Search for cbp-7540 "disabled people in employment" and it will come up in searches.

Says who? She uses it for all sorts of things. Every person is different. It’s hard to predict and have fists full of vouchers for all sorts of things isn’t that helpful if you are struggling. Aside from anything the cost of administering all this will be insane. The type of provision she needs can’t be covered by a generic counsellor with an ology in talk therapy.

Quite!

I don't think the 1 in 4 people being disabled is nuts.. Like you said, not all will be claiming benefit for that. And we have an aging population where age related disabilities are a thing.

This only includes people of working age so not the elderly.

The paper has a lot of relevant stats and is worth a read.

Ha, you sound like a poster on a similar thread who told me I could open a coffee van, because I can post on MN.

Have a

Whatever she needs the extra money for. What additonal financial costs does she have because she is autistic?

Tell us you have no experience of autism, without telling us you have no experience of autism.

So what does she use it for? You say lots of things but do not give even one example.

But the country cannot afford the billions that PIP is costing currently, let alone the extra tens of billions it is going to cost in the future if nothing is done.

In all seriousness, if you can post regularly on mnet, there are things you have plenty of skills to do. So then it's about whats stopping people and can anything be done to help them access work.

Eg - compel employers to offer flexibility/remote work

• provide therapy to enable people to cope with anxiety triggers etc

• encourage employers to make workplaces more disability friendly

If I knew then I wouldn't be asking would I?

My ex boyfriend was autistic, but he did not have any additional financial needs.

I'm not the one changing PIP.

The OP is going to be forced to work, the changes will happen. My post is just referencing the Governments logic.

Wow!😱

Where do we draw the line?

If more, and more and more people require financial support (whether to pay for costs associated with disability or to fund them living without employment) and less and less people are working to provide it, the maths does not work, you have too few people providing, the support gets spread too thinly. It's what is happening now. A tiny population of workers can't produce enough to financially support a huge group of non working disabled people.

As a carer my first thought with vouchers if that effectively reduces what I can get!
I keep costs very low, for example fruit and veg down the market. My weekly cost of fruit and veg would get me about 3 punnets of berries at supermarket prices! It’s prevents you making your money stretch. Another thing you can’t do with vouchers is buy second hand. I get cheap clothing on Vinted, Facebook etc. it would cost far far more in a shop. £20 in my pocket can go a long way. A £20 voucher in my pocket is fuck all.

You do realise PIP is paid to people in work?

The op has severe anorexia, depression, ptsd and adhd- how will she work?

Well what? My ex boyfriend was autistic and he didnt' have any additional financal needs.

Autism varies massively. No one person is the same. My daughter needs it for travel costs, heating, extra food expenses for the anorexia…all sorts of things.

If you’ve met one person with autism you’ve met one person. My dd has pip for several
conditions not just the autism.

OP is on PIP.... and many on PIP work. It is not an out of work benefit. For many, it enables them to work.