[Survey] Have your say on [UK] welfare benefits reform

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Form here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSelDC00Dul6_PiiBEZrAPHgG0HFdp8x9YtpBw9LwFGmIOkhJQ/viewform

 

The new PIP Daily Living 4-point rule would mean 87% of PIP recipients with standard Daily Living would lose their awards. The figure is 13% for those with enhanced Daily Living. Not to mention these people would likely also lose their UC LCWRA awards.

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Especially worrying given this survey was created by a Long COVID charity that should surely be aware most pwME can’t work.

 

It has been designed to give us support to lobby MPs urgently about just how unfeasible these cuts are, how much they just are not listening and how impacted pwME and pwLC will actually be.

It was a joint project with pwME and pwLC involved. It is impossible to get the questions "right" and capture everything correctly but hopefully we are managing to capture important information for the community and take action.

Thank you to everyone who has used precious energy to fill it in.

 

One of the options was biomedical research to lead to effective treatment, though!

 

There is an option to say "none of these would help"

There are some reasonable suggestions of things that we don't seem to have been able to get so far, and might help those with long covid or mild ME who might be able to do a limited amount of work, but one option is "biomedical treatment" and another option is "none of these would help"

I think the idea is that enough people are going to select "biomedical treatment" that it will demonstrate that even reasonable adjustments are just not going to help.

As someone who has had some very traumatic experiences with DWP I fully understand and appreciate your concerns

This project was initiated by some very worried people who desperately want to take action and be able to demonstrate to the DWP and ministers the absolute insanity of their proposals.

 

I completely understand your perspective on this. We have been screwed too many times.

I will do my best to bring the pwME perspective to how the results are used and our lobbying.

 

Filled it in but i seriously doubt anyone in our present political system will care . The D W P has been a nightmare to deal with since 1997 . not that it was pleasant before that but some staff actually showed some compassion and common sense .