‘Trying to claim PIP was awful – Labour still wants to make it harder’
Sarah learned that he could protect his personal independence payment (PIP) after he was worried for months.
His 40 -year -old mother works from home, which allows him to balance life with a new parent and obstacles. Chronic fatigue syndrome in their joints means regularly experiencing brain fog and exhaustion and needs help.
And what makes it possible is the pipi that helps him to buy a caregiver, stay at work and spend time with his baby.
The health -linked benefit in the heart of Labour’s proposed welfare reforms, allegedly allegedly by 3.7 million people, is designed to help the extra costs in which it is exposed to a disease or disabled.
The concessions of the government on the plans to reduce welfare expenditures mean that Sarah will no longer be subject to more strict conformity criteria when evaluated for the next benefit.
Instead, from November 2026, only new plaintiffs will be subject to more strict criteria in accordance with the Labor Party’s Parliament’s bill.
But Sarah says he’s fighting to see it as a victory.
“If there is another Sarah, who was born a few years later and ends in this situation, still terrible, or he says.
“Some disabled people encourage people with other disabled people to throw them under the bus. And this is barren, because some people are afraid enough to say ‘we will get what we can take’.”
And like others, he could not find applying to Sarah Pip with an easy process.
“It really sounds deliberate”
Sarah seems to be stuck in and out of it, Sarah says Sarah. “Really deliberate, how difficult. He feels extremely deliberate. Because there are many ways to make more accessible for disabled people.”
In half of his assessment for the pipette, Sarah’s baby girl began to cry in the other room. It caused her panic and shouted her husband that the baby might have to change.
For this reason, “The evaluator said that I can clearly respond to my daughter’s needs and that I can evaluate what he needs, Sarah says Sarah.
“But I said to him that I don’t care about my daughter on my own, I trust other people who do it for me. I need someone with me when I’m with him.”
He claims that none of these are included in his report.
And that’s not just Sarah.
Ginny’s husband Tim was diagnosed with myotonic muscle dystrophy, a progressive genetic condition affecting muscles and movement in 2006.
His dual mother works part -time and also looks at her husband full -time. The PIP award means that Ginny has the right to provide a caregiver allowance that Ginny says it is necessary to support his family.
“Tim doesn’t like to confess, but people often don’t understand what he’s saying.
“During the evaluation, he was asked to repeat himself at least five times. But when it comes to the report, he said that the evaluator had no problem in understanding him.”
Ginny wrote that the evaluator managed to work part -time for 25 hours as TIM’s library assistant. Actually only 25 work hour A month, a little more than six hours a week, Ginny says.
“Do you have a dog?”
In a PIP assessment, an evaluator will decide whether a applicant is limited to carrying out daily life activities. They do this by asking the applicants to carry out a series of events and give them points to how limited their abilities are.
According to an old evaluator, the questions of opening questions may include: “How are you today? How did you come here? Do you have a dog?”
A applicant can be forgiven because he thinks that these questions are only a small conversation, that PIP evaluators are friendly and that they are trying to make them easier in the process.
However, in most cases, he says the evaluation has already begun. How they answer these questions may be the difference between a life line that will pay health costs or nothing.
Former evaluator who wants to stay anonymous, this approach is standard for PIP evaluators, he said. DWP’s PIP assessment guideline, which proposes that evaluators make “non -formal observations ın of“ inconsistencies ”.
“As soon as you tell them, ‘I’m here to make the evaluation, that’s okay?’ And they say yes, it started ”.
“And then you will comment, you will look around the room for the photos of the children. You are looking for evidence that they do not say the truth.”
According to the disabled philanthropy, more than half (51 percent) people with disabled people with complex needs, reports that they feel humiliated during the benefit assessment. 45 percent further said that the process even worse the symptoms.
“I think sometimes when you hear some of the discussions about the PIP, someone may think that it is an easy benefit to claim it, but this experience is really divorced from the experiences of disabled people.”
“We want to see a system that treats disabled people with dignity, evaluates people in a fair way, but makes them feel guilty to try to reach the support they need.”
‘You should fight the teeth and nail’
Neither Sarah nor Tim were given any points in PIP evaluation. Instead, they requested a compulsory assessment, but they were rejected and encountered a long waiting for appeal in a court.
Ginny, because they are fully aware that they will turn this down, we have to go because they seem to be standard with them, ”he says. “But that was just a step for the appeal.”
Sarah was given the lowest PIP ratio only after the court, while Tim was awarded in the light of more medical evidence.
Approximately 56 percent of PIP evaluations resulted in an award between 2019-2024. However, approximately two -thirds of the decisions were overthrown by a decision -makers panel, including a judge, independent of the DWP.
“You should fight the teeth and nail, Gin says Ginny. “Government ‘people get it very easily’ or ‘support people with the most severe conditions’.
“In my book, my husband has a serious situation and they only feel that they are redefining the disability in a way that fits them.”
It is seen whether the government’s concessions on prosperity plans will be sufficient to appease the deputies and backbenchers who are ready to vote for measures on Tuesday.
A DWP spokesman said: “The truth is that PIP evaluation suppliers and healthcare professionals are involved in the process, but they have no role in the process of giving the evidence of the evidence used, and they are not only instructed to be based on the situation seen in the evaluation.
Uz We always create a sustainable welfare system that really supports sick and disabled people while always protecting those who need the most, and at the center, we review the PIP assessment to ensure that it is suitable for the future.
“We will work with people with disabilities and a series of experts in this regard while presenting our change plan.”
