The reality of claiming PIP: a 🧵
1) To claim PIP you have to describe in excruciating detail all the ways you cannot function. This means that you are forced to think in very detailed terms exactly how disabled you are, which often has a devastating effect on the mental health of the applicant 1/?
1) To claim PIP you have to describe in excruciating detail all the ways you cannot function. This means that you are forced to think in very detailed terms exactly how disabled you are, which often has a devastating effect on the mental health of the applicant 1/?
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This is how Adult Disability Payment works in Scotland, and afaik it has caused no one to die by suicide, unlike the 1000s killed by DWP.
Mums naturally sing their child’s praises and focus on the positive, so to me this felt like a great betrayal.😢
For her, it was demoralising, upsetting but necessary. It’s not a process anyone would choose.
Sounds similar to the American disability system.
CAB for their best but are overwhelmed.
Bureaucracy
Penalising our most vulnerable instead of taxing the wealthy. Shameful.
Incredibly sad to see so many people who now feel the need to explain the trauma of disability.
Shame on successive govts, shame on the media and shame on working class' people who have fallen for their lies and vitriol.
It never occurs to me im hungry i need prompted. I cant use knives for flashbacks. I wander off & leave the gas on 3/wk
But actual cooking is ok. Its humiliating to realise what counts when filling in the damn form.
And the dread when you need to consider calling as of course there's no email just good old fashioned blocked telephone lines.
My PIP was stopped Oct 23 - still waiting for tribunal
The overhaul of Pip is intended to be a lengthy cruel shaming process which attacks your very identity to stop you from applying.
Your parliament is legislating eugenic torture. The US has this too with Medicaid, Social Security, & veterans disability benefits.
Filling out these forms took several hours over several days. Listing all his difficulties and the things he can’t do, in minute detail, left me in utter despair.
It’s a soul destroying process.
But the advice given is to think of your child on their worst day.
Their purpose imo was to prove you were lying..
I tried to get PIP over a decade ago, the event was humiliating and I was refused.
I will never apply again... so they won by a process of dehumanisation
Yes, that's the UK right at the bottom there...
https://bsky.app/profile/rogerkline.bsky.social/post/3lks6ymrnbk2g
(But also: so that's how I find out that piece of news, huh?)
Also; sorry! 😟
Also: still not the weirdest way I've ever received news about something. XD
But for chancers - and they do exist - it's the opposite: an exercise in imagination, nothing to lose, with the added excitement they might pull it off.
I was disabled enough as a child to get PIP, exam adjustments, disabled student allowance, but today I’m not considered disabled enough and thus I lose my disabled railcard access