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Post by dalekbuster523finish on Feb 4, 2017 16:08:56 GMT
Any fellow disabled users been trying to claim PIP on here?
It's an absolute disaster. They think because you can pass a piece of paper to someone means you have 'good coordination skills' and 'can prepare a simple meal'. Also: studying TV and film at university somehow means you have 'the intellectual ability to describe your medical symptoms'. *Rolls eyes*
It's like being in a bad comedy, only you're the luckless loser.
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Post by jasonward on Feb 4, 2017 16:15:03 GMT
Any fellow disabled users been trying to claim PIP on here? It's an absolute disaster. They think because you can pass a piece of paper to someone means you have 'good coordination skills' and 'can prepare a simple meal'. Also: studying TV and film at university somehow means you have 'the intellectual ability to describe your medical symptoms'. *Rolls eyes* It's like being in a bad comedy, only you're the luckless loser. Not yet, but I will be, and yes, PIP's terrify me, currently I get DLA and when thats replaced by PIP's I stand to loose a huge proportion of my income, and the truth is, the only way I've found to cope with that is to ignore PIP's until such time as I have no choice. |
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Post by dalekbuster523finish on Feb 4, 2017 16:25:33 GMT
Any fellow disabled users been trying to claim PIP on here? It's an absolute disaster. They think because you can pass a piece of paper to someone means you have 'good coordination skills' and 'can prepare a simple meal'. Also: studying TV and film at university somehow means you have 'the intellectual ability to describe your medical symptoms'. *Rolls eyes* It's like being in a bad comedy, only you're the luckless loser. Not yet, but I will be, and yes, PIP's terrify me, currently I get DLA and when thats replaced by PIP's I stand to loose a huge proportion of my income, and the truth is, the only way I've found to cope with that is to ignore PIP's until such time as I have no choice. It's so ridiculous. The logic they use is 'If person A shows signs of ____ in his/her behaviour at the interview and/or through what s/he tells us s/he does, then s/he is not entitled to ___ points in the ____category'. Any of those disabled athletes on the TV who take part in sports? Nope. No points for them in the getting around category, because they show good signs of movement. Blind but are able to efficiently cook a meal? Nope. Doesn't matter that you may struggle more than an average person to do it, it shows good signs of food preparation. I may not be blind or an athlete, but that's the way they seem to work based on the way they rejected my application twice. They don't seem to take into account that you may communicate differently in different situations. If you're autistic and you show signs of good communication they just say it's 'good communication skills'. Yet if they saw me with a group of fellow students at university, it would be a completely different story. If you try for PIP, when you go into your assessment I urge you to realise that they're assessing every single thing you do at the interview to see if there's any way they can get out of paying you money. They don't tell you that part - not even at the interview. I felt insulted when I found out that once you enter the meeting you're basically just a lab rat to poke and prod. |
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