PIP rant

[stargazer61]

I give UP! after a zero point for claim i started all over again with fibromyalgia added to the SVT, osteoarthritis, chronic pain etc and got zero points again. The process has greatly affected my mental health, i've been so much worse due to this process of trying to claim and the stress actually drove me to a very low and dark place. When i read the report i just went to bed and wept for two days the first time, then went about the complaint procedure. Can't say i got any satisfaction but it did make me feel a bit better doing something that felt proactive and let me protest the altered truth of my situation by the assessor. This time i just threw it and swore a lot... Waste of time which aggravated my health issues. i'm not putting myself through any more of this humiliation and stress. What an utter disgrace PIP claiming process is and i repeat that, although i cannot find it now, i did see an article that said if a zero point is given the reward for the person giving it is 200 quid, i can't believe that can be true but who knows...

Just needed to rant a bit. Good luck to anyone undergoing the process, make sure you have support, not just a support worker to help fill the forms in, but emotional support from family and friends and pray you have someone who will help you financially in the meantime. as my support worker to fill in the forms said, if you're not depressed and anxious when you start this process, you will be by the end of it. I know there are people more disabled than i who get zero points, bless you all.

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Morning,

DON’T GIVE UP!

They’ve done the exact same to me and most of the members on here.

It’s a disgraceful government, to reward their staff for not giving PIP to genuinely ill/disabled person. It goes beyond words how disgusting this is, but we have to keep fighting them AND our health condition/s.

Yes, prays and thoughts to all who have been and are going though this process. Keep strong xxx

[rtd1]

Do not give up. I got declined the case manager told me try again in an abrupt voice so I did. I got enhanced daily living another case manager said ‘ take it to tribunal your get what your entitled to that for sure ‘ I have autism, anxiety, depression, fibromyalgia/chronic pain, adhd and conduct disorder. Keep fighting for what you think your entitled to 💫

[stargazer61 in reply to rtd1]

i can't cope with any more of it unfortunately, it took me right to the edge and added too much pressure to me mentally, but i'm so glad to hear a success story and am delighted for you! x

[rtd1 in reply to stargazer61]

Carry on. For every dark night there’s a brighter day life’s hard sometimes you just got to come out the other side stronger and when you do your feel a big difference. You can either sit around with nothing or keep trying till you get something they’ll give up eventually

[Midori]

You need to keep fighting. The DWP is geared to fail as many as possible.

They do it deliberately, banking on the stress of the paperwork, the f2f , the lies and the general nastiness and difficulty of the process to make us give up. It is particularly true with folk with mental health issues.

Apart from anything else, even if we don't have depression and mental health issues when we start, we are almost sure to have them by the end of the process!

[stargazer61]

yeah, exactly what the guy i got to help me with the form said when we started but that year and a half just killed my attitude of gratitude to say the least, i got to the stage i thought i just couldn't take anymore, it was horrendous and it takes all my effort to maintain daily life with my loved ones, i'm not willing to mess that up even with the financial strain.

i wrote this affirmation i found on a note and put it on my fridge, it's worth sharing:

I am moral and a genius extraordinaire regardless of what any institutional transcript or bank statement says.

A good sign of any society is found in how they treat their vulnerable ones, but as anne frank said, i still think people are fundamentally good and it's important to still give of yourself and not retreat too far into yourself. i feel if i still put my energy into the pot by helping when i can that what goes around comes around. For every breath you take someone is taking their last. i don't want to be in a perpetual state of wishing it was mine, and that's where i was. But i appreciate what you're saying, thank you. My heart goes out to all the people fighting against being labelled cheats and liars, it's shocking...when i complained i also wrote to my assessor and ended by asking her to watch the film 'i daniel' and that i hoped neither she nor her loved ones ever found themselves on the other side of the desk...that film should be mandatory watching for all those in that system...xx

[Fibrokitty3 in reply to stargazer61]

I’m sorry you’ve had to go through such an evil process that is designed to make you crumble ☹️

I’m on my second Tribunal now and the whole process really knocks the fight out of you 😔 but that’s how it’s been designed, to make people give up so there’s less to pay out!

The initial idea of PIP was to try and save money. However, it has cost way more to pay out for the companies to do the assessments (and their bonuses if they fail as many as they can), than it will ever save!

Please contact your local MP and give them your story and an account of your PIP journey, and get them to fight for you! After all, that’s what they’re paid for, to work for their constituents!

Gentle hugs 🤗

x FibroKitty3 x

[stargazer61 in reply to Fibrokitty3]

thanks, maybe i'll ponder that...hug returned!

[AllthatGlitters]

I also got 0 point, zilch, nada, absolutely nothing! It’s a joke the benefits system in this country & utterly disgraceful.

I know people on benefits when they have nothing wrong with them, who have been claiming since a young age. Don’t know how they do it x

[stargazer61 in reply to AllthatGlitters]

Aye, their energy fits with the predatory manic energy prevalent here. much more important to try to maintain your integrity, the option is unthinkable x

[stargazer61 in reply to stargazer61]

..still the lesson of how not to act is just as important to our journey...we have to dig out those who set the right way to be - the dalia lama for one...we all feel those people who operate from heart, we can only try to emulate them in our own we way in our own wee circle in our own wee self..