Labour PIP benefit cuts

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Can someone help me please?

I'm absolutely spiraling. I've just read up about the Labour conference and everything about PIP reforms.

I'm absolutely panicking. I feel like giving up. I'm on PIP with mental health.

I do work. Part time.

Yeah, sure right. She'll have a plethora of things the matter with her that she's not telling you about.

That she's stupid enough to say it's a bad back is beside the point

Because she's feeding you bullshit and probably finds it funny because you fall for it or doesn't want to share her actual medical history with you. I have multiple physical and mh conditions some, people are aware of others I keep to myself as people are judgemental. For e.g. if your diagnosis is paranoid schizophrenia I would also be telling people I don't work because of my back

If this were the case, going by your posts, what would Labour do?

@EasternStandard if people can work then they should work.

A disability only has to affect someone for 50% of the time for them to be eligible to claim.
People with disabilities are allowed to have good days... and they are the days when people see them out doing stuff, which then leads others to assume they are committing fraud.

I get the line but I'm not sure what Labour can actually do policy wise to say get the person you describe back to work v posters on here who have also described the reason for getting what they do

I think they could use a carrot type policy and encourage people, or a stick but that won't be welcomed by everyone

What a lot you know about your neighbours, including their disabilities and their nocturnal activities @IveGotToGoToMeDads. It must be exhausting for you fitting in work around that surveillance.

@XenoBitch They seen well enough 100% of the time to me, its one big party round here.
I see these people day and night.
They go on annual holidays, they go to the pub, socialing with friends, they shop and carry heavy loads into there house. Believe me not one of them can not undertake some kind of work.

@ilovesooty like I said I have lived round here 20 years and there is no excuss why these fit and able people should not do some kind of work.

Do point out where I've said I don't care about people on basic pensions who've had the WFA withdrawn.

How do some people know so much about their neighbours and whether they can really work? Yes I know my neighbour has PTSD but nothing more. (Because it has nothing to do with me)

Your posts talked more about buying votes and people who complained that you knew

Absolutely but a lot genuinely can't. I work part time but the reality is I'm a pretty shit employee. I take a significant amount of time of work due to illness, appointments or when iv been hospitalised, or surgeries. This year alone iv been admitted 4 times apart from one which was for 3 days for surgery all the others where over 2 weeks stay. Others have to then step up and cover these shifts. And that's just my physical health. When it's my mental health and I'm manic, suicidal or worse homicidal it's a nightmare. And theirs lots of people a lot more ill then me you really want to be around them walking on eggshells when their having an episode and they turn violent. Covering their shifts most weeks because this is the reality.

If there are people such as those in the pp what happens next?

Idk how you act punitively towards some and not others

Any ideas, maybe there are some

@Differentstarts I know a lot of people are genuine with illness and I send my best wishes to you, and well done for doing part time with all your conditions.

You've had a lot of time to spy on them and compile your evidence. If you think they're claiming fraudently and you have years worth of evidence, report it. I wonder what those "nice people" would think of a neighbour who is pleasant to their faces yet badmouths them online?

And just to add to this I currently have 9 consultants across 3 trusts I'm under the cmht iv been sectioned multiple times and I still had to fight to get pip even with all these medical professionals backing me 100s and 100s of pages of medical evidence. So I can absolutely guarantee you that people are not getting pip for back ache

That's not an answer. You said I didn't care about people on basic pensions who've had the WFA withdrawn. Please tell me where I said that.

@ilovesooty i'm not bad mouthing anyone, like I said my neighbours are all lovely people.
I have broached the subject of work with some of them in conversation. Not one of them got offended.
How is suggesting someone works bad mouthing?

It is an answer based on your posts. If you don't want them to come across as they do feel free to not prioritise what you did.

So you can't point out where I've said that. Because I didn't. OK then.

Your posts are there to read. It's easy to see what your response was. It was more about a party buying votes after all

Which has nothing to do with what you alleged I've said, but are unable to substantiate.

You displayed your views and where your priorities lay for pensioners.

Row back all you want, you obviously don't want to be seen as you have been due to your posts.

Whatever the threshold was - and it is too low - there'd be whining entitled pensioners moaning about something being taken away.

Take this post. It could have been about many pensioners suffering over winter instead, which they will