‘I feel like an expensive pet’: Independent readers open up on the human cost of disability cuts

ALabor force confronts with reaction on plans to reduce disability benefits, dozens of Independent Readers expressed fear, anger and despair of what they saw as betrayal of the most vulnerable of society.

Their interpretations reveal the human cost behind the headlines: the caregivers facing poverty, people who are afraid of the loss of the last parts of financial independence, and a common feeling of punishment, not with support of reforms.

A few readers mentioned that life -long conditions and benefit cuts that make the job impossible will not only help to return to employment and poverty.

Others have warned that reforms are economically short -minded, and NHS created more coercion on social services and unpaid carers.

Beyond practical concerns, many of them touched upon the emotional wage of feeling worsening, rejected or forgotten by politicians and general people.

Here is what you have to say:

This is not just the pipe cuts!

This is not just the pipe cuts! The deductions of the universal credit health element and the element of the caregiver will be lost. Those who work part -time and who do not claim that the PIP will lose and obtain contribution -based benefits will be limited to six or 12 months, when they will be a partner with unemployment insurance, because they can normally claim on their own.

There is no discussion about these problems. In all these cases, people with disabilities will greatly lose and labor has never learned anything about the deaths of plaintiffs under Tories. They know and heard the evidence, criticized Tories for being ruthless, but they think it was acceptable.

This is not about helping people; He punishes them because he can’t do it!

Strength

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The existence of the grinding of poverty

I have fibromyalgia and many other chronic long -term situations, and under Tories 14 years unnecessary arches squeezing and ruthless, ruthless DWP, the most vulnerable people in society, many of them have life -long chronic health conditions, impossible, and no employer will give us a second appearance.

A terrible treatment by DWP, the constant demonization and worsening in the media and the press, made to feel like a criminal because it is alive, but more like poverty and constant scape goats – I feel like a kind of abuse through the proxy, we feel like a kind of abuse designed to wear ourselves!

Infected blood, post office horizon, windrush and so on. It is completely embarrassing that there is no national scandal at the level. However, for decades, he was treated as a evacuation over the disabled and chronic long-term society for decades for decades-so our situation was sweeping under the carpet and our lives were not considered worthless.

Tories has been ‘hiding us’ for years, but I never thought that I would see the day the Labor Party would continue its insensitive policies.

Redrocket68

Insulting evaluations

Simply reducing benefits on the board is not the way to deal with it. Of course, in the system, as in all systems, there is abuse, and therefore it needs to be an applicable structure to address it. Nothing here will be perfect or perfect at all!

Serious disabled and caregivers need support and do not live for fear that they cannot survive. Anyone who cares about someone knows how difficult it is – usually 7/24. Some of those who make these evaluations seem unaware of what disability means for those who never get away from it. Insulting questions that say that people can manage things that they cannot do are just a small example of what people encounter in these ‘assessments’.

Often people with disabilities often face more difficulty than they can imagine or even take care of it. Business spaces are faced with the daily difficulty of reaching there, especially if they are addicted to a wheelchair.

There is no quick correction for this and it is definitely not one to cut vital payments!

Ambigirls

These segments will break people

None of the arguments used by the government are based on examination; There is no evidence that supports cuts.

The majority of the influence of disability are hidden, especially sincere, embarrassing and financial issues, except for the immediate surroundings of people.

People do not realize how bad things are or how a lack of support can destroy you.

These segments will break people.

Discounts will also adversely affect the economy and cause higher dependence on NHS and local services in the mid -term long term and increasing costs.

Kitty

They already cut mine by 36%

It’s not bad, but I’m disabled and I didn’t just live with the endless threat of losing my benefits – he cut them (36%) and completely stopped.

I wonder how much this progresses to the destruction of my health, and still much worse than myself.

Tomsnout

We are in our location

Unfortunately, the government does not have a time machine to return to the decisions that some people don’t like. We are where we are now. And the current location is to pay for higher taxes than the current record, to pay for higher benefits, again in a record (all in real).

Sign

Continuous torture cycle

It’s not about ‘people who can work, to do’. Realistic, no employer will miss the chance to employ a disabled person – and if they do it, there will be a continuous torture cycle for the worst affected – and that Forced – work they can’t do. They will deteriorate in health in a six -month or less time and require occupational health services. And what will occupational health tell them? Check out! Resign! After all, you can’t work!

This welfare reform needs to be completely scrapped.

VIMS2022

Universal Credit does not help carers

Many carers will remain poor because the benefit system does not allow any other benefit. Universal credit does not cover someone who cannot work due to care responsibilities. They won’t get anything!

Forever

I have been waiting for five years

I wouldn’t like anything but walk again. But this is my fifth waiting year. If you think I can’t be so bad, I have a violent last stage arthritis. What bone is bending. I’m sure I’m not just me.

Cynical

A blood feud against the most vulnerable ones

After participating in the consultations in the Green Newspaper, I witnessed many people who were afraid of how to rob them from their challenging careers.

A warning for those who want disability support to be terminated: Save these measures only from Pittance, so wait for more deduction. If they bends low enough to give a good kick to the most vulnerable to the most vulnerable person, nothing can stop them after the pensioners, the greatest slice, as a result of more than half of the welfare bill.

Talksense

Easy Goals

Pip is not given because of your ability to work or work. Why should you cut the Pip? To save money and claim that those with disabilities no longer have them. And we are the easiest target. Starmer, ‘gray vote’ will be useful in the next general election and the grandmother and grandfather died from the cold voters will be upset. Children have voting parents and they will grow to become voters. But the disabled? Nah. Silent Sub-Humanities. As I said, easy targets.

News for him: We have loved ones who are voters with disabilities and we choose. I’m about to be a gray voter and I have an obstacle. He won’t get my labor vote again.

Lizziem

I feel like an expensive pet

I am disabled. My partner is working. I cannot claim any benefit due to income. Therefore, PIP is my only income and independence. It allows me to reach my own appointments and pay my prescriptions, eye tests and dental care (not because it covers it – I haven’t seen a dentist for years because of the cost).

The pipe also brings less marginal burden on my wife because I can pay my own prescriptions and even get them delivery. Removing this money will lead me to poverty, trust my wife more, and cost him more money. This will put pressure on our already stretched relationship because I will feel like an expensive pet rather than a valuable person. He is ruthless, right and emotionless. I would expect this from the conservatives after the minefield they created during the bitch squeezing, but the punishment of a workers’ government in this way is limited to the definition of political madness and persecution.

Silvafox

Why do they always choose us?

My husband uses a disabled, stroke, wheelchair – only one side of his body works. Due to other health problems, it cannot have a motorized wheelchair, so there is a manual one. I’m taking him where he needs to go. It is so stressful by all of this, worse. Why does the government always choose people who cannot defend themselves? Always happens.

Bonniebell

Employers will not take risks

The problem with DWP leaves a lot of desired things to try to engage disabled individuals with appropriate job finding. Employers are more reluctant to take disabled people on the grounds that they have to take care of them. They see the disabled as cheap workmanship and the cost of using them is overweight than the benefits. There is a human pool without skills, and I am not talking about this disadvantaged, disabled people work for a significant period of time or not.

Kingdaniel

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