If you're not sure about the cruelty, inhumanity & injustice in the PIP system of benefits for those impacted by various health & ability issues, then you need to work through my timeline this morning, with posts responding to a post I made about PIP refusals & appeals - my heart goes out to those who have posted, and further emphasises that there are parts of our state apparatus that are cruel, callous & inhumane, just because they can be...
Thinking about how ridiculous and harmful it would be to replace #PIP with any kind of voucher scheme. I regularly spend money on things to help with managing my #disability that aren't labelled as aids. Car parking because I can't walk far. Chunky boots so I feel more secure. Extra heating and a TV because often I can't leave the house. Phones for my kids so I can check in on them without climbing the stairs. Ready meals because cooking nope. A robot vacuum cleaner.
Contrary to recent Tory spin, the Department of Work & Pensions (DWP) is rejecting 40% of all Personal Independence Payment (PIP) claims.
Shockingly, these include:
50% with cerebral palsy
25% of amputees
40% with muscular dystrophy
45% with multiple sclerosis
This government continues its war on the disabled and vulnerable, purely to appeal to that portion of the electorate which has been taught to believe disability is a scam.
I wonder what current appeal success rate is at tribunal is? (when they eventually get to tribunal).
In my foodbank days, it was 60-70% success, which was an eloquent comment on uselessness/malice of DWP. #DWP #Tribunal #PIP
"Given the past history of how this government hands out contracts to accredited providers, their friends down the boozer can start ordering their super yacht catalogues now — while the rest of us can continue with our suicide watch over friends and family, affected by previous austerity programmes under the guise of welfare reforms which have cost the lives of over a hundred and twenty thousand people. The government has a struggle on its hands (along with the blood) if it expects to enact these changes before it’s ran out of power. That doesn’t mean it can’t. Or that a potential incoming Labour government wouldn’t pick up this particularly poisonous chalice..." https://freedomnews.org.uk/2024/05/10/disability-cuts-work-isnt-the-pull-sunak-thinks-it-is/#disability#PIP#Tories#LabourTorySameOldStory
If you think claiming PIP is so easy that even those who aren't actually disabled can get it, prove it.
Fill out the application.
Gather the evidence.
Go through the assessments.
Let's see if you can get even the lowest rate.
Go on, I can wait. #PIP
"It’s an obvious point to make, but the severity of mental health waiting times only exacerbates conditions such as depression and anxiety, and runs contrary to the fundamental principle of medicine that early intervention reduces long-term complications. Rather than an honest assessment of their own failures, all the Tories can do is blame sufferers. It is a grotesque distortion that callously sacrifices vulnerable people for political gain"
TIL about pipx.
It sets up a separate venv for each installed binary, and links them from $HOME/.local/bin. It can also upgrade everything with a single command (although I haven't tested this part yet).
"If there is anything more disgusting than the sight of a half-billionaire rolling up his sleeves for a “benefits crackdown” in the middle of a cost of living crisis, the realities of which he wouldn’t be able to imagine even if it occurred to him to try, I can’t think of it"