One in six PIP claimants have no extra costs linked to their disability

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https://www.thesun.co.uk/money/40693771/pip-claimants-disability-benefit/
So, can money be saved here?

Most people claiming it don’t work

I think some people could help themselves a lot more than they let on.

Yes I agree. We have young people not working and getting pip because of ADHD and autism when they have a parent and grandparent with the same issues who do work.

It is true.

Hospital transport is not always shared. It depends on needs.

I mentioned DLA and PIP because others had brought DLA into the conversation, but the same applies to just PIP. Many parents are still involved in their DC’s care when they turn 16 and things like school/colleges/school transport still apply to them.

If you remove my DSs’ PIP, I would pursue hospital transport. I know I am not the only parent who that applies to.

If you removed my DSs’ PIP, I would pursue further social care hours (for 2 of them) and further continuing care hours (for 1). I know I am not the only person this applies to.

Yes only one sixth of people work.

I honestly can’t remember the last time a young person was diagnosed with something that wasn’t autism or adhd. And every other poster has a child with it on here (not exaggeration)

I won’t click in an article in the sun but absolutely wow that such a publication is being put up as a source of evidence!

So what. PIP is is not an out of work benefit.
Who claims it and works or not, does not matter at all.

Yep.
Sun pops up on m FB sometimes. Articles about how you can get PIP if you have any of "20 conditions", which are all bullshit like tennis elbow and fungal toe nails.
All posted for clicks and divisiveness.

But you probably wouldn't get hospital transport. It's hard to get. If you can travel safely by taxi you won't get it.
I will be honest, I would judge a parent who would put their kid in a home just because pip stopped. But for adults, they need to have constant care.

Of course you do.

I got hospital transport after my last surgery. I could have physically gone in a taxi but it would’ve been hundreds of pounds each time. Because the regional centre where I had my operation was 2.5 hours away from where I live. And no. I didn’t have friends or family who could take me every day for 2 weeks and then 3x a week for another 4 weeks because they were all at work, weirdly.

so I was given hospital transport.

I would get hospital transport. We have already been offered it, repeatedly, for DS1. And I have had a conversation about it for DS3 and it would be supported by his medical teams. DS1 could not travel by taxi at all. DS3 could if accompanied by someone trained to support him but not unaccompanied.

Judge away. You haven’t a clue what it is like caring for a severely disabled DC. Besides, I didn’t say I would put DC ‘in a home’, I said I would pursue further hours.

They do. I know someone who gets it and not only that, it was automatically awarded without having to jump through the hoops that most of us have to go through. I appreciate it's an illness, but it is also self inflicted unlike most disabilities.

Fine take hospital transport if you would prefer to.

So what if it is self inflicted. It should not matter how the disability occurred.

It should if they just spend it on alcohol which they will

It isn’t about what I would prefer. If PIP was removed, I would be forced to. It is not about preference.

Exactly.

I mean, I'm not sure what else I'd be expected to do with my child?

If my son didn't get DLA then I'd also lose the motability car and wouldn't be able to afford another suitable car. I'd be expected to work even though my son can't attend breakfast club/after school club and requires frequent days off school due to either multiple appointments or he's in hospital again or he's ill and could possibly need hospital again.

I'd have no choice but to seek out social care support and also transport support.

I agree. But I think it does not help alcoholics or drug addicts to give them extra money because they are alcohols or drug addicts. It just gets spent on alcohol or drugs.

There are no PIP descriptors about addiction.
So what do you think should happen?
Addicts do not stop due to lack of funds. They don't eat or pay bills. Then they turn to crime.

People are not automatically awarded PIP because they have an addiction. They still have to apply as normal for normal rules claims.

They are not given money due to being addicts!

How many addicts do you know? They don’t use PIP to pay for food. They won’t eat anyway. It’ll just go on drink and drugs.. hence the addiction