With all the noise about cutting PIP to “get people back to work,” I thought it might be helpful to share my own experience with disability benefits over the last 27 years.
PIP has helped me so much to the point where I can now work part time. I wouldn’t be able to work full time (I’ve tried) and would end up having to claim more of the benefits I’m entitled to. PIP isn’t perfect but it can be life-changing and hearing a politician regard it as like a child’s pocket money is as infantilising as it sounds
I lost my job due to ill health in 2009. I haven't been able to work since. I am ten times sicker now than I was when I lost my job, having been diagnosed with multiple long term conditions. I can't actually think of any job that I would be able to do. I tried working in my mum's accountancy practice doing payroll 2 1/2 days a month and I couldn't even manage that. I am really scared that I will be forced into a job that I can't physically do and then flare up my conditions meaning I can do less than I do now.
Thanks for bringing light to this issue. It’s like this in the US as well, except that we don’t get as many services like help with cars or ramps. And our current administration wants to cut what we do get.
The stupidest part of this current hoohah is that PIP is paid regardless of whether you have paid employment. For a lot of disabled people, PIP is what actually makes it possible for them to work, by funding things like taxis to and from their workplace. Remove PIP and you actually force some people to GIVE UP work.
This exactly. I’ve never been able to get a job let alone keep one. Still worthy.
Always worthy 🩷
PIP has helped me so much to the point where I can now work part time. I wouldn’t be able to work full time (I’ve tried) and would end up having to claim more of the benefits I’m entitled to. PIP isn’t perfect but it can be life-changing and hearing a politician regard it as like a child’s pocket money is as infantilising as it sounds
I lost my job due to ill health in 2009. I haven't been able to work since. I am ten times sicker now than I was when I lost my job, having been diagnosed with multiple long term conditions. I can't actually think of any job that I would be able to do. I tried working in my mum's accountancy practice doing payroll 2 1/2 days a month and I couldn't even manage that. I am really scared that I will be forced into a job that I can't physically do and then flare up my conditions meaning I can do less than I do now.
I’m so sorry the system is failing you and all of us so badly 🩷
The MPS are the biggest SCROUNGERS on the planet they make me sick. Thanks for the email. MAZ36 💕💕
They truly are!!
Thanks for bringing light to this issue. It’s like this in the US as well, except that we don’t get as many services like help with cars or ramps. And our current administration wants to cut what we do get.
We do, it just depends on your state. Check out Medicaid waiver programs.
The stupidest part of this current hoohah is that PIP is paid regardless of whether you have paid employment. For a lot of disabled people, PIP is what actually makes it possible for them to work, by funding things like taxis to and from their workplace. Remove PIP and you actually force some people to GIVE UP work.