PIP Myth Buster

[annanother]

From the wdrk and pensions clear myths about PIP when it comes in dwp.gov.uk/docs/personal-in...

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Top marks for invaluable and informative post.

No personal interest to me but many people will be grateful for this. Many thanks.

Chris

[chrissie53]

very grateful for this,,many thanks

[WestWalesPaul]

The document in question appears to be an extremely 'carefully' worded piece of information, which, unfortunatyely does not dispel any fear that I and others I know [with serious lung and other conditions], have that the change is most definitely structured to remove as many claimants as possible from the system.

Sorry to say that, but there is no space here to fully explain in any sufficient depth, but there are many people who have read the document who dismiss it as pure propaganda.

Paul

[timber]

Paul,I think you are absolutely right,propaganda is all that this is ,this wicked government have already decided that the change from DLA to PIP is going to reduce the bill by 20%,and that.s before anyone has had a medical assessment.

I fear many people will be losing their DLA,in the near future.

Woody.

[WestWalesPaul]

From the DWP's own document, called "PIP Reassessments and Impacts" [available at dwp.gov.uk/docs/pip-reasses... ]

By October 2015, they will have carried out 560,000 REASSESSMENTS of current DLA recipients and their STATED outcomes will be as follows:

170,000 will receive NO AWARD;

160,000 will receive a LOWER award than currently;

80,000 will have an UNCHANGED level of award; and,

150,000 will receive a higher award.

The rest of the figures used in the document are 'projections', based on assumptions and are not necessarily valid in the real world.Furthermore, the interpretations given are subject to dispute if actually looked at impartially. As with so many similaar documents, there is likely to be an assumption that the reader [MP?], will only glance at the 'figures' and just read the 'explanations' given below each table.

The 'case studies' are, by their own admission, 'fictional', therefore do not have any basis in fact and, again, are there purely to add a certain 'kudos' to the myth that we will be treated fairly.

This is NOT a 'political' attack on anyone; just a statement of fact. This government wishes to be seen to save money. There are so many flaws in welfare reform as proposed or being implemented by the politicians I beleive wholeheartedly that they have received bad advice from those in the 'backrooms' who propose policy to our 'Honourable members'.

I, like most of you have serious lung conditions [bronchiectasis and copd], and others, and have been sitting here with a really bad exacerbation, tapping out the keys one by one and hoping against hope that EVERYONE on the BLF forum realises how we may all be affected in our daily struggle to simply breathe.

Sorry for such a negative sort of post. But I worry.

Cheers

Paul