I had a neighbour who did exactly that 22:08 . He was suffering with stress and anxiety as the job center were on his case constantly. He was in his 50s. He didn't have a very good school upbringing. You got y'all been a warehouse then people were taking the Mickey out and them at work. He couldn't work as fast as everybody else lost his job then could not apply for benefits because he'd been sacked. Which unfortunately left him to take his own life. As his neighbour I was totally shocked and I blamed the local council because I'd rang them and said he needed some help. He wasn't doing well and their response was he needed to ring up for himself. So sorry Andy the world let you down.
@@autisticautumn7379 I know, I genuinely never had the mindset of relying on benefits until recently, this was after 20 years of on off working. You'd think after 20 years the government would be happy that you can't hold down a job.
Once again I'm totally staggered that yet another government is scapegoating the most vulnerable in our society, it really is sickening. I would urge everyone to contact their MP with these concerns, but as we know those who are vulnerable normally don't have the ability to do so, hence we become the easy target. I do think a disability panel should have disabled people on its panel, as you rightly say we are all very different and our needs vary widely. Thanks Stu. Hope you feel better soon 🙏
I didn't realise that being disabled and unable to work is undignified and has no purpose. Nice of Liz to say this. Always makes me laugh how people who grow up with money, and get opportunities like Cambridge University, think that they are in a position to offer an opinion on those that don't have these opportunities provided to them. I'm sure if I had the opportunities she has had I would also be in a good state, and wouldn't have literally broke me back working to essentially pay tax in this country.
Thank you for the update, Stu. I agree with the points you made regarding universal credit and being mentally ill and disabled. No waffle just clear valid points. When will the government learn that the "pressure" given by the DWP only serves to make people worse and causes fear, etc, and prevents them from moving forward. A person's illness and trying to cope with daily living can then not be achieved, leading only to more pressure placed upon the NHS and mental health services, which have been cut to the absolute bone. This bullying tactic of vulnerable people achieves absolutely nothing other than a detrimental impact upon them, but yet the threats to continue with approach do not subside
Gov ' saved ' £4bn by not giving the 2.4 million Legacy Benefit Claimant's and Carers the covid uplift of £1,560 ... At court decision was made... Less chance of getting a job justified decision.. BUT Still subjected to same sanction law's. This is just one example...
Stu, dear dear Stu, never apologise for your ‘rambling’ ! The way you speak, the content within your words, the research you do on our behalf and the duty of care you show to us all out here is always very very much appreciated. Your humour today has also put a smile on my face…something that was much needed. Bless your cotton sox!
I won't do the paid version of Substack because I'm always concerned that the government can change my finances whenever they like. I do appreciate how much work you do to help us though so yes it's not much but it's what I know I can afford. Hope you and Becki are well. Happy Xmas if that's your thing 🤗
Hi Rob, thank you so much for your contribution. But you contribute so much in terms of supporting this channel there really is no need. You are a legend! Apologies that I didn't see this sooner, I have been off my game somewhat.
@@StuartMcGoo No worries dude I know you've not been well. Hope things start to get a bit better for you soon as you've been going through the mill a bit healthwise of late(more than normal).
You are so right about being economically inactive, they try to drill it into you so much that you believe it after a while. I know I started to. It's as if the money 'we' spend doesn't matter as much as the money spent by those in employment. I have issues including autism, adhd and ptsd and have always been trapped in the same cycle of trying to hold down a job, then being sacked, then transferring onto benefits, and rinse and repeat. I never even used to disclose my disabilities to try and give myself the best chance to get the job. You're also so right about there being a negative rhetoric in this country, but anybody could become disabled over night, that's what that camp of people don't understand. I have been on benefits for a few years now, as I am simply not well enough to hold down a job, but it wasn't for a lack of trying, as I had over a dozen jobs, but I found the vast majority of the jobs I had made me so much more ill, that it was a no win situation for me, as much as I tried.
Yes. Literally everybody is taxed, even if they are on benefits - but people seem to forget this. Everyone pays tax on multiple things in life, like Stu quite rightly says. Looking from the physical disability aspect, I'd class our money as pretty important for companies who manufacture equipment designed to aid with disabilities, irrespective of whether we qualify for VAT relief on those products. Those companies would go under if everyone was physically fit and healthy, because their products wouldn't be needed. All the best to you, keep fighting the good fight and don't let them get you down x
Thank you so much for this video, it has put a lot of pieces together for me in a way I would have struggled to articulate myself. Some people work as a vocation, some just to pay the bills, everyone has value regardless of their employment status. We are so much more than just a cog in a capitalist wheel where the end result is company profit. I hope your friend finds someone with the right expertise to help him with his adaptive software.
Work is the reason I am on benefits .The stress I went through in a couple of jobs just made everything ten times worse .I have concluded most disabled especially neurodivergent people are better working for themselves if they can.This back to work proposals should include this.
Is what I'm trying to do right now actually, got some pretty complicated health problems and not been working since 2012, dont tiny bits since then but nothing substancial for myself (working for myself), on ESA and just been notified about migration if it runs smoothly hopefully may be easier to do some experience within work even like voluntary in the field I want to work for myself just to gain some value experience.
Thank you Stuart, you never rambled on... you spoke so much sense and addressed just about all of my concerns and worries about this white paper which is honestly troubling me, without someone like yourself I would absolutely fall to pieces with all the changes to benefits.
if the current governments wants to save money, how about cutting the following - 1. the amount of mp to one per county and reduce the amount for the capital cities from 8 or 10 london , 2, reduce the amount of pay from £80K or more to below 21K (average) and reduce the pension contributions 3. make the mp's to pay for there perks - like subserdised items, liable protecrions and the cut the civil service.
Thanks for your rambling opinion, Stu. You and I think along the same lines. Wishing you a fast recovery from your surgery. I really hope you find some kind of solution for your friend. I find that creativity comes in all forms, and having your own flavour or specialty taken away can be worse that the disability itself - the final straw, if you like. Your levels of compassion overwhelm me. Yes, we all do have amazing value - obviously not to the government - but we each add something to someone else's life, or have done along the way. It's lovely to hear you say it - put a warm glow in my heart. What was the quote? "For when the One Great Scorer comes to mark against your name, He writes - not that you won nor lost - but HOW you played the game". Blessings, Stu. Deb xx
I get ESA and pip, I HAD to finish work 13 years ago due to multiple chronic illnesses. I won't ever get better. I had paid into the system since I was 15, and because I did that I have been penalised since not being able to work. I'm pig sick of being targeted by those who have no idea what it's like to struggle, in every aspect of life it's a struggle, and to top it off those in power make me out to be fraudulent and a bare faced liar regarding my struggle, so their solution is to take away my benefit to cover for the mounting immigration costs! So unfair! I'd love to be able to work!
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Excellent video, thank you. I suspect we think very much in the same way. I agree that it is insidious. I was very concerned when I heard about the assisted dying bill. I fear people who are unable to work may be guilt-tripped into being "relieved of their existence" via this kind of thing. The checks and balances must be incredibly strict, or this will be abused, undoubtedly. I used to work in a legal office many moons ago and I've seen how greedy, nasty relatives cannot wait for the wealth to come to them - we all know what that means. If they had the chance, they would have attempted to "persuade" the person to leave this world so they could get their hands on their wealth. I really do have concerns that some people will feel pressurized into leaving this existence, especially given the indirect "useless eaters" kind of rhetoric which certain people seem to be encouraging or hinting towards. To those who fall for these tricks, I say to you: You are NOT guaranteed to be healthy throughout your entire life - nobody is. One day, you may well find yourself inhabiting the shoes of those you currently denigrate, so think on.
All it takes to join the ranks of the unemployed is a redundancy letter through the post. What goes around comes around. Checks and balances were removed during C0nvid. Only one.dr required to sign death certs and no post mortem coroner's enquiries for a disease Govt claimed they didn't know anything about. DNRs issued in absence of relatives visiting their loved ones, etc.
Thanks Stu.l which I could help with Bert , I can feel his frustration l can't do anything l once could and it drives us insane , but really sorry l have no experience of this technology, l really hope he gets the education he needs . Regards David
The government should be upfront with the people. With 8 million on the waiting list for treatment on the NHS, many of these people can't work. therefore have to use the welfare system.
I’m suffering with a range of health issues. Stage 3 emphysema, neuropathy, lymphoedema and cording after cancer, arthritis, and mental health issues. I worked until 50 but then was unable to, I’m not going to get better, I’m going to get worse, I can’t think of a single job I can do. I can’t hardly walk, my right arm is weak, my hands are weak and continue movement is agony, I can’t talk for long as I get out of breath. I also sleep loads, need to rest after waking one room to another I have a carer that helps me, how can I work? I’m dreading this it’s making me more anxious. Making me feel sick. I’m not economical inactive, I have gardeners, cleaners, taxis, I try to have a meal once a week with my friend, I spend money.
Hi Stu, firstly, thank you so much for all your very informative & balanced videos! I really appreciate your efforts on everyolnes' behalf. There's one issue I haven't seen addressed (could be me) & that's what impact having a carer has on PIP application success. Many thanks in advance
Whether or not you are working should have no bearing on your PIP eligibility. That said its not unheard of for PIP decision makers to use that information against a claimant, but this can usually be reversed at appeal as it doesn't form part of the PIP assessment legislation.
@@StuartMcGoo Apologies. I didn't mean being a carer, I mean having one come to help you e.g. I have several limiting conditions that all exacerbate each other & my Council has given me a carer to help alleviate some of the issues affecting me. We only have 45 minutes per day, but it makes such a huge difference. I've been repeatedly refused PIP because I express myself badly (in their terms)
Firstly thank you for speaking with such compassion, if only we had a member of the Labour Party who felt the same way . Secondly we keep hearing if you can work you should but who’s going to decide if you’re able to work or not ? The same assessors who have lied in my previous assessments . If the WCA is scrapped everything depends on getting PIP which can take a year or more to win . What happens to the sick or disabled then as we won’t receive either PIP or LCWRA. The government are not mentioning the people who can’t work at all , what will happen to us . My first PIP assessor lied , ignored my GP letter and all evidence apart from one specialist letter which she twisted and lied about. My health became worse and has never recovered and gets worse with each assessment. This is what they need to look at , why keep constantly assessing people will conditions which cannot be cured.
I'm a pensioner, I still work 40 hours a week. Got to eat well and heat my home. The thing is, I just had a full hip replacement, waiting to have the other hip replaced and then my knee caps. I use my pip mainly for transportation. I'm still paying my taxes. I rely on pip. I'm on the lowest payment.
❤ 40 hrs a week as a pensioner is awful. You should be able to relax and enjoy leisure time. This government makes me so angry the way they treat the backbone of our country. I'm so sorry you are having to do this to make ends meet 😔
Why does this Government thinks it's ok to put more & more pressure on people. Who struggle with pressure. Also for with a disability and a personality disorder, depression and anxiety and the last place I worked they sacked me because of my disability. Purely because they had two other people with disabilities already working with them. Overworkers were constantly moaning behind my back people. I thought I could trust and the company decided it was a lot easier to sack me than a team of 15 people.
@alexanderevanska4274 what they did was because I was working in a warehouse. They said I signed a contract stating I could work in all areas of the warehouse and so in their eyes I had broken the contract. How many people? I got the union involved which was an absolute waste of time to be honest and this was 2006 and I've been fighting the DWP ever since. Soon as a new government comes in, you're not eligible then you are eligible and to take it away from you. Then you have to go to tribunals then you get it back and then within another year they're at it again. It just wears you down. But thank you for your comment
@dallasknight4854 I'm sure by law they should have given you some leeway. I myself am retired and disabled. I chose to knock 6 hours off my 40 hour week and the company had to accommodate my health problems. Best of luck to you, hope it all turns out well for you 👋
Job Centres merging with the National Careers Service could only be positive if any and all services are voluntary with all service users under no obligation to follow any suggestions and advice and without the use of any benefit sanctions.
I almost killed myself last year i have Autism so talking has helped to a degree but now i have further mental health and anxiety depression because very distressing events
Thanks Stu. I'm autistic and I've had long covid since 2020, been very up and down. NHS Doctors just say I've just got to "put up with it". Totally inadequate. How are people supposed to be ready for work if their health issues are not being addressed and patently dismissed? I'm also a carer for my dad who has dementia, not sure how I'm going to fit in working a job as well.
I am autistic and have had long covid since 2021.I also have fibromyalgia.I recently had WCA the assessor kept asking me had I had physio had I had Cbt had I been ti the long covid.Did i have any help fir my autism.I am sure she didn't believe me when I said no help at all .I can barely survive on my own often miss meals e.tc but get no help.How I am supposed to go back to work its ridiculous.They are hoping we take a job are sacked then they don't have to pay us for months.
When you are fit and well (and I was for years) some people have no idea what its like to be ill, take me with MS I take pain killers every 4 hr, things that have been said to me "Can't you fight through it ?" "Push through the pain" for a long time I nodded mainly to shut them up but now I say... let me hit your feet with a hammer, I will then climb on your back and ask you too walk me around a bit ?? you'll be ok, fight through the pain ?? lets see how long you last, hope all went well my friend remember it takes 8 full week to recover, you take it easy, best wishes..
The system before 2008 where GPs gave diagnosis was a simple method to claim sickness and disability benefits. A future sickness and disability claims process could be an automatic sickness and disability benefits entitlement based on the medical condition diagnosis from GP, doctor, consultant, specialist or hospital tests and reports with each condition having a band of severity over a spectrum. The medical condition could include automatic points or give automatic entitlement to sickness and disability benefits either at standard or enhanced rates. In this way sickness and disability benefits would be paid to those with medical conditions. Sick or disabled benefit claimants could get fast tracked for medical tests and assessments in order to claim benefits.
My support worker told me in Sept that in January they are stopping my ESA and moving to UC . I was medically retired by my GP in 2016 . Chronic illness and MH . Still on going and at times hospitalised . She then said they will stop my money for 5 weeks ( have heard it’s longer by people ) and will need to budget for that gap and then apply to the DWP for a loan to live on , heat and eat etc and it can only be applied for once . Then once the UC is in place I have to pay the loan back over 2 years . This is disgusting and has knocked me back with anxiety and self harming from fear . I have had ‘ S ‘ ideations too. I feel completely depersonalised . I don’t want to be here anymore . I am also due an operation soon . I have been victimised for my MH and sexually assaulted in the work place . I will not be able to work or trust . I have CFS too and just fall asleep . Which is dangerous . I feel hopeless , sleepless nights . CBT does not work for Trauma .
This is the problem I have; Today, I can clean half the house and have a shower.Tomorrow and the day after I won't be able to do anything because of what I've achieved today. Which Employer will allow a person to spend 6 hours doing a 2 hour job-WITH rests in-between and then let me have a few days off to recuperate from the day before's work? Add to that crippling anxiety -(I don't go out Dont use public transport because of it) Social phobias and O C.D What exactly can I do if I cant get out of my bed! :-(
And even if you find a part time - 0 hour contract position - and lets say you do 3 days of 6 hour workdays plus 2 hour travel to and from work ( which don't count as work hours) and lets say you can even pick the days you do work ( not being on the high earner bracket ) the DWP will hound you constantly to get and do more hours. I am the same as you - if I manage what you mention above - I will be house and bedbound for days after and I had a position as I described and I did push myself and took on more hours. Done that for almost 3 years to the point of now being unable to work at all. Barely able to keep up with personal hygiene or daily chores on my own without help! And now on heavy pain meds do to chronic muscle and joint pain.
Another term I hate is "taxpayers money," especially when it comes to benefits. The taxpayer doesn't pay me the newspapers need to stop with this rage phrase. I agree that people like myself on benefits should be able to buy what we want with our money, what has it got to do with anyone else.
I have been signing on for years and recently moved to uc form jsa, when on jsa they refused to help me back to work due to my health and mental condition and because am on a control drug (prescription) so they didn't help me, moving to uc I got less money and they want me to pay 20% council tax wish is impossible. I moved to uc in Oct and have and still am signed off by doctors because my mental health and I also had an MRI last December I found out I have RA stage 3 possible 4 I told the jc and even tho am signed off they get me to do more and have more meetings.
When i was young in the 80"S benifits were paid 2 weeks in advance , then 1 back one forward,then 2 back,,now UC is 4 weeks back ,they save alot every change
Yeah I know what you mean , I’m on UC paid on the Same Fixed date of every month, NOT every 28 days like it should be, it’s fraud on their part, & guess what, I had my so called review last month, (It’s actually an illegal form of you & me committing benefit fraud until proven innocent,) I had to upload 3 photos of I’d, plus 4 bank statements, now I have heard that pensioners are next to be accused of benefit fraud until proved innocent ! This is scandalous and should be Stopped 🤬
What is interesting some medical consultants who are both NHS and private, get paid £350-500 an hour in their private practice and get another rate for NHS, so with that model of combining private with the NHS, how does anyone expect there to be no long waiting list for the NHS! They should start to have solely NHS medical consultants and solely private medical consultants on a wide scale, because neither will improve when they are joined at the hip!
Imagine treating vulnerable people even if you have no physical or mental illness with respect and love 😮 Also the government always leave out how employers won't hire people with physical or mental illnesses, employers struggle just to make basic adjustments and being aware if an employee needs help with something or you'll get treated like a burden until you cant cope anymore If you have any sought of physical or mental illness you are screwed in the uk work culture The uk is only built for the neurotypical
Kier Starmer is no Kier Hardy, I think Starmer turned to the right and ignored the left. After calling Jeremy Corbyn “my friend” then sacked him showed his character or lack of it. I’m 69, retired and disabled through a work place injury and I’m terrified.
Hi can you please help am on universal credit unfortunately my phone broken i don't know my email address password or my details for universal credit can you please help me
I have physical and learning disabilities as a result of epilepsy and hydrocephalus (Excess Fluid on the Brain) and am 51 years old. I am currently unemployed and am recognised as having Limited Capability for work as a result of anxiety. Over the last few months I have been humiliated by the DWP examing my bank statements and treating me over the phone like a criminal even over things such as giving my mom housekeeping (I live with my Mom and my Dad passed away 15 years ago). Fortunately I have been passed as OK after investigation by the DWP but it's led to me having a near nervous breakdown during a Job Centre Appointment and my mom is angry as a result because of how ill it's made me. Fortunately I'm hard skinned to an extent but it's only going to take one person more vulnerable than myself committing suicide as a result of this DWP harassment and the carp will surely hit the fan legally.
I've got RA & in lots of pain got a job to walk & have to keep sitting down cos the pain in my hips legs & shoulder's go through the mill every day through pure pain,some days don't no how to deal with pain but have to keep smiling some of the people in new government need to live in our lives every day, also have osteoarthritis in both knees so so painful I go out once a fortnight I make my self go out it's very hard as I suffer from acute anxiety with that & RH pain & osteoarthritis pain the anxiety the government is putting me through with worry,I wonder how I'm going to survive,DWP moaning other day don't spend £500 in Currys what happens if our fridge freezer packs in or out cooker breaks down, disabled people are just the same as any other person we on not alians cos we have disabilities, labour has changed so much for the worse there not helping people there trying to kill them off,if anyone don't like what I've put tuff,
A lot of mental health issues could be resolved with others better managed by increased social security benefits to cover increased cost of living, price rises and inflation without benefit sanctions for those in poverty.
4:59 so I’ve seen quite a lot over the years that well people don’t understand what it’s like to be disabled even when they are fully aware of what you have wrong with you, I’m talking about my brother, in August my mum passed which of course made my already bad mental health fall of a cliff but I was given a week of been in shock and not feeling anything which let be get most of the stuff sorted but I sadly did have to go out to pick up the death certificate (the first time ied been out that wasn’t an emergency trip to hospital in an ambulance in 16 year) and stuff like that and my bro was playing taxi for us but there was often quite a walk between parking space and building we needed to get to so he is walking at a normal human pace meanwhile I’m running a full on Marathon going as fast as I possibly can and he still had to stop every few meters to let me catch back up, it must have been quite comical to watch it must have been 50 meters at most but I’m looking like I’ve just ran a hundred miles though the Sahara desert in the midday sun, at to top off the joke I’m the younger brother by 10 years😅. The thing that makes it worse with these politicians is they don’t care no matter how much they claim otherwise and disabled people are easy targets to them as for a lot of them they don’t go out be it for mental or physical reasons so their voices and faces don’t get counted their just a shadow that can be ignored or that’s how they see it .
Hello Stuart hope you're well, i was wondering if you can help clear something up for me, if you were on Income related ESA, then Managed migration over to UC LCWRA receiving transitional protection payments for previous ESA's SDP & EDP, afterwards you have a pip review and they knock you off PIP and you're appealing, am i right in believing UC will automatically remove your transitional protection payment if PIP is denied, if so once pip has been reinstated after appeal is it possible to fight to get the incorrectly removed transitional protection payment reinstated and backdated?
Hi Stu a self motivated query, but would imagine that there are thousands like me of feeling completely in the dark. In that does the DWP have any plans/rumours, as to how the pensioners in receipt of PIP may be affected by any potential changes to PIP please.
I am a professional for any type of Benefit claims. I offer detailed claim form writing and advice. Teaching various unknown services and claims that you may not be aware about being entitled to. I will say right now what the only core reason that PIP is ever changed or redesigned for.. It is to skim millions of Pounds off the top of claimants salaries by making sure that the previous claim that you presented to them still gets you an award but it is minus a few points and has dropped you into a lower rate. I am very aware of these stunts and tricks that the Elite Government implement in order to save millions and demoralise and sabotage a few millions vulnerable individuals whilst they are at it.
The thing is there was a furlough during the pandemic and after the great resignation followed. I think there maybe need to concentrate on the 4 day working week and WFH so people don't get burned out and ill from an overload of work and unecessary travel.
I have Motor neurone disease and have just put in for P.I.P with the new SR1 form signed by my G.P. They have refused it. I have polycythemia also. I dont think i will bother
@StuartMcGoo Thankyou. I have now involved the MNDA and their benefits advisors. . Apparently the SR 1 now gets sent to the assessors ( capita) and they were the ones to refuse it. I asked what the assessors job title was. IE a consultant/ G.P The case manager couldn't answer it. She didn't know. Could have been anyone. 🤔
Really disabled people vary in productivity, i.e. some might be 20% productive as a normally healthy person, some 60% some 80%. Flexibility is important to tap this potential. e.g. sick days. But I understand there are a lot of storys where people try to work. But they just end up getting dismissed. Is there a minimum floor of productivity? should it be 50%? Perhaps there should be laws for enforced flexibility?
Has your friend tried a 13” iPad Pro? They now have eye tracking and photoshop and Logic Pro have been converted for a ui/ux that needs larger ‘touch’ zones - the eye tracking accessibility in iOS 18 might work better than a pc up that is built around micro movements of a mouse.
Between the collapse of mental health in uk. Even young people are now diagnosed with depression, in large numbers and the cuts to PIP. This country will collapse faster than pronouncing the word PIP.
its streesful enough being without money home ect ' let alone be blamed for the finacial crisis this country is in ' ill people dont get much choice as it is ' its all become political ' some drs & nurses look & judge the ill who are unemployed now ' by assumption ' the ill cant do nothing right ' it isnt any wonder why more ill people are getting more & more stressed by the day is it 🤷♂️
i am aware of i glaze technology and i have used this technology. i don't think this technology will fiit your friends needs. i used a form of i-gaze technology whilst accessing the access to work scheme. i am not sure if i still have the suppliers contact details.
I had a neighbour who did exactly that 22:08 . He was suffering with stress and anxiety as the job center were on his case constantly. He was in his 50s. He didn't have a very good school upbringing. You got y'all been a warehouse then people were taking the Mickey out and them at work. He couldn't work as fast as everybody else lost his job then could not apply for benefits because he'd been sacked. Which unfortunately left him to take his own life. As his neighbour I was totally shocked and I blamed the local council because I'd rang them and said he needed some help. He wasn't doing well and their response was he needed to ring up for himself. So sorry Andy the world let you down.
That's been my situation too with trying to work, but always being sacked due to my health issues.
The Goverment don't care as it's one less to worry about. Thankyou for being a good neighbour to Andy.
I have been sacked due to health issues .The government just don't consider this.
@@autisticautumn7379 I know, I genuinely never had the mindset of relying on benefits until recently, this was after 20 years of on off working. You'd think after 20 years the government would be happy that you can't hold down a job.
This should never happen 😢
Once again I'm totally staggered that yet another government is scapegoating the most vulnerable in our society, it really is sickening. I would urge everyone to contact their MP with these concerns, but as we know those who are vulnerable normally don't have the ability to do so, hence we become the easy target. I do think a disability panel should have disabled people on its panel, as you rightly say we are all very different and our needs vary widely. Thanks Stu. Hope you feel better soon 🙏
Why? They have been screwing the slaves for centuries
I didn't realise that being disabled and unable to work is undignified and has no purpose. Nice of Liz to say this. Always makes me laugh how people who grow up with money, and get opportunities like Cambridge University, think that they are in a position to offer an opinion on those that don't have these opportunities provided to them. I'm sure if I had the opportunities she has had I would also be in a good state, and wouldn't have literally broke me back working to essentially pay tax in this country.
Not a ramble .
You are always so helpful . Thank You 🤝
Agreed, it was a good calm listen.
Thank you for the update, Stu. I agree with the points you made regarding universal credit and being mentally ill and disabled. No waffle just clear valid points. When will the government learn that the "pressure" given by the DWP only serves to make people worse and causes fear, etc, and prevents them from moving forward. A person's illness and trying to cope with daily living can then not be achieved, leading only to more pressure placed upon the NHS and mental health services, which have been cut to the absolute bone. This bullying tactic of vulnerable people achieves absolutely nothing other than a detrimental impact upon them, but yet the threats to continue with approach do not subside
Gov ' saved ' £4bn
by not giving the 2.4 million Legacy Benefit Claimant's and Carers the covid uplift of £1,560 ...
At court decision was made...
Less chance of getting a job justified decision..
BUT
Still subjected to same sanction law's.
This is just one example...
You are so very reassuring, I love your smooth voice. We rarely get validated, it means so much.
Alan here a big massive thank you for what you do
Stu, dear dear Stu, never apologise for your ‘rambling’ ! The way you speak, the content within your words, the research you do on our behalf and the duty of care you show to us all out here is always very very much appreciated. Your humour today has also put a smile on my face…something that was much needed. Bless your cotton sox!
Brilliant, so spot on in every single way, and so elequently put.
Thankyou Stu for speaking up for the many who cant 👍
Thank you Stu. You are without doubt the easiest person to listen to about all these issues. 💜🇬🇧
It all comes down to empathy and compassion and unfortunately large swathes of the population lack both.
I won't do the paid version of Substack because I'm always concerned that the government can change my finances whenever they like. I do appreciate how much work you do to help us though so yes it's not much but it's what I know I can afford. Hope you and Becki are well. Happy Xmas if that's your thing 🤗
Hi Rob, thank you so much for your contribution. But you contribute so much in terms of supporting this channel there really is no need. You are a legend! Apologies that I didn't see this sooner, I have been off my game somewhat.
@@StuartMcGoo No worries dude I know you've not been well. Hope things start to get a bit better for you soon as you've been going through the mill a bit healthwise of late(more than normal).
You are so right about being economically inactive, they try to drill it into you so much that you believe it after a while. I know I started to. It's as if the money 'we' spend doesn't matter as much as the money spent by those in employment.
I have issues including autism, adhd and ptsd and have always been trapped in the same cycle of trying to hold down a job, then being sacked, then transferring onto benefits, and rinse and repeat. I never even used to disclose my disabilities to try and give myself the best chance to get the job. You're also so right about there being a negative rhetoric in this country, but anybody could become disabled over night, that's what that camp of people don't understand.
I have been on benefits for a few years now, as I am simply not well enough to hold down a job, but it wasn't for a lack of trying, as I had over a dozen jobs, but I found the vast majority of the jobs I had made me so much more ill, that it was a no win situation for me, as much as I tried.
Yes. Literally everybody is taxed, even if they are on benefits - but people seem to forget this. Everyone pays tax on multiple things in life, like Stu quite rightly says. Looking from the physical disability aspect, I'd class our money as pretty important for companies who manufacture equipment designed to aid with disabilities, irrespective of whether we qualify for VAT relief on those products. Those companies would go under if everyone was physically fit and healthy, because their products wouldn't be needed. All the best to you, keep fighting the good fight and don't let them get you down x
I have put my full trust in you Stu….thank you
What happens to the Billions spent on wars? That is a true drain
Thank you so much for this video, it has put a lot of pieces together for me in a way I would have struggled to articulate myself.
Some people work as a vocation, some just to pay the bills, everyone has value regardless of their employment status. We are so much more than just a cog in a capitalist wheel where the end result is company profit.
I hope your friend finds someone with the right expertise to help him with his adaptive software.
I hope you recover from your Op well. Rest up .
Thank you for your caring ,calm presentation . I am in hell mentally at the moment .
Work is the reason I am on benefits .The stress I went through in a couple of jobs just made everything ten times worse .I have concluded most disabled especially neurodivergent people are better working for themselves if they can.This back to work proposals should include this.
Is what I'm trying to do right now actually, got some pretty complicated health problems and not been working since 2012, dont tiny bits since then but nothing substancial for myself (working for myself), on ESA and just been notified about migration if it runs smoothly hopefully may be easier to do some experience within work even like voluntary in the field I want to work for myself just to gain some value experience.
Thank you Stuart, you never rambled on... you spoke so much sense and addressed just about all of my concerns and worries about this white paper which is honestly troubling me, without someone like yourself I would absolutely fall to pieces with all the changes to benefits.
You're very welcome
Thank you Stuart get well soon 😊😊
Thanks for the video Stu. I hope you make a speedy recovery & that someone is found to help Bert’s tech issues x
Appreciate the video. Thank you and take care, everyone ❤
Thanks Stu, excellent vid. Wishing you a speedy recovery.
Dwp needs to have you as an adviser
Thank you Stu, please take care of yourself
Doing a great job. Keep doing it. Get well soon👍
if the current governments wants to save money, how about cutting the following - 1. the amount of mp to one per county and reduce the amount for the capital cities from 8 or 10 london , 2, reduce the amount of pay from £80K or more to below 21K (average) and reduce the pension contributions 3. make the mp's to pay for there perks - like subserdised items, liable protecrions and the cut the civil service.
A true metric of any state is how they treat the most vulnerable people in it.
Yet again we fail 😔
Stu What happens to the £23bn benefits not claimed?
Thankyou stu for speaking up this is worrying me so much.
Thanks Stu.
thank you Stuart. Your videos are much appreciated x
Thanks for your rambling opinion, Stu. You and I think along the same lines.
Wishing you a fast recovery from your surgery.
I really hope you find some kind of solution for your friend. I find that creativity comes in all forms, and having your own flavour or specialty taken away can be worse that the disability itself - the final straw, if you like.
Your levels of compassion overwhelm me. Yes, we all do have amazing value - obviously not to the government - but we each add something to someone else's life, or have done along the way. It's lovely to hear you say it - put a warm glow in my heart.
What was the quote? "For when the One Great Scorer comes to mark against your name, He writes - not that you won nor lost - but HOW you played the game".
Blessings, Stu. Deb xx
I get ESA and pip, I HAD to finish work 13 years ago due to multiple chronic illnesses. I won't ever get better.
I had paid into the system since I was 15, and because I did that I have been penalised since not being able to work.
I'm pig sick of being targeted by those who have no idea what it's like to struggle, in every aspect of life it's a struggle, and to top it off those in power make me out to be fraudulent and a bare faced liar regarding my struggle, so their solution is to take away my benefit to cover for the mounting immigration costs! So unfair! I'd love to be able to work!
The British class system is alive and well and tge suoer rich includibgvtge royals loot the UK, the world, keep se ret millions or more Ioffshore ( the queen & no doubt Charles also as revealed I 'The Pandora Papers' etc These suoer rich despise most of the human race they even say...eg call them 'Useless Eaters and write about, chat about tge ingoing depopulation of ions of people using poverty (eg 'Austerity' & much more), 'Pandemics' , 'wars' ie looting and genocide in UK and globally. Not Conspiracy unfortunately- plenty of proof that tge planet is owned by insatiably greedy psychopaths.
I am disabled and I do believe we all have something to contribute, it's how this is put into practice that scares me.
I hear you . I'm also disabled and would love to be able to get a job working from home . As you know it ain't as easy as that . All the best.
Great video honestly one of the best on this problem I think I've ever watched, kudos to you and I really mean that!
Thank you for your help, get better soon.
Excellent video, thank you. I suspect we think very much in the same way. I agree that it is insidious. I was very concerned when I heard about the assisted dying bill. I fear people who are unable to work may be guilt-tripped into being "relieved of their existence" via this kind of thing. The checks and balances must be incredibly strict, or this will be abused, undoubtedly. I used to work in a legal office many moons ago and I've seen how greedy, nasty relatives cannot wait for the wealth to come to them - we all know what that means. If they had the chance, they would have attempted to "persuade" the person to leave this world so they could get their hands on their wealth. I really do have concerns that some people will feel pressurized into leaving this existence, especially given the indirect "useless eaters" kind of rhetoric which certain people seem to be encouraging or hinting towards. To those who fall for these tricks, I say to you: You are NOT guaranteed to be healthy throughout your entire life - nobody is. One day, you may well find yourself inhabiting the shoes of those you currently denigrate, so think on.
All it takes to join the ranks of the unemployed is a redundancy letter through the post. What goes around comes around.
Checks and balances were removed during C0nvid.
Only one.dr required to sign death certs and no post mortem coroner's enquiries for a disease Govt claimed they didn't know anything about. DNRs issued in absence of relatives visiting their loved ones, etc.
Thanks Stu.l which I could help with Bert , I can feel his frustration l can't do anything l once could and it drives us insane , but really sorry l have no experience of this technology, l really hope he gets the education he needs . Regards David
Cheers Stu.
Thank you, Stu.
A bit of a logical ramble is always appreciated by me, and I guess most of your friends on this channel ✌️😊👍
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The government should be upfront with the people. With 8 million on the waiting list for treatment on the NHS, many of these people can't work. therefore have to use the welfare system.
Thank you stu get well soon.take care of yourself.♥️♥️👍
I’m suffering with a range of health issues. Stage 3 emphysema, neuropathy, lymphoedema and cording after cancer, arthritis, and mental health issues. I worked until 50 but then was unable to, I’m not going to get better, I’m going to get worse, I can’t think of a single job I can do. I can’t hardly walk, my right arm is weak, my hands are weak and continue movement is agony, I can’t talk for long as I get out of breath. I also sleep loads, need to rest after waking one room to another
I have a carer that helps me, how can I work? I’m dreading this it’s making me more anxious. Making me feel sick.
I’m not economical inactive, I have gardeners, cleaners, taxis, I try to have a meal once a week with my friend, I spend money.
It should be not about us or for us without us the fundamental way of running disability benefits
Thank you stu,
Get well 🙏
Thank you x get well soon lots love x
Hi Stu, firstly, thank you so much for all your very informative & balanced videos! I really appreciate your efforts on everyolnes' behalf.
There's one issue I haven't seen addressed (could be me) & that's what impact having a carer has on PIP application success.
Many thanks in advance
Whether or not you are working should have no bearing on your PIP eligibility. That said its not unheard of for PIP decision makers to use that information against a claimant, but this can usually be reversed at appeal as it doesn't form part of the PIP assessment legislation.
@@StuartMcGoo Apologies. I didn't mean being a carer, I mean having one come to help you e.g. I have several limiting conditions that all exacerbate each other & my Council has given me a carer to help alleviate some of the issues affecting me. We only have 45 minutes per day, but it makes such a huge difference. I've been repeatedly refused PIP because I express myself badly (in their terms)
Firstly thank you for speaking with such compassion, if only we had a member of the Labour Party who felt the same way . Secondly we keep hearing if you can work you should but who’s going to decide if you’re able to work or not ? The same assessors who have lied in my previous assessments . If the WCA is scrapped everything depends on getting PIP which can take a year or more to win . What happens to the sick or disabled then as we won’t receive either PIP or LCWRA. The government are not mentioning the people who can’t work at all , what will happen to us . My first PIP assessor lied , ignored my GP letter and all evidence apart from one specialist letter which she twisted and lied about. My health became worse and has never recovered and gets worse with each assessment. This is what they need to look at , why keep constantly assessing people will conditions which cannot be cured.
I'm a pensioner, I still work 40 hours a week. Got to eat well and heat my home. The thing is, I just had a full hip replacement, waiting to have the other hip replaced and then my knee caps. I use my pip mainly for transportation.
I'm still paying my taxes. I rely on pip. I'm on the lowest payment.
❤ 40 hrs a week as a pensioner is awful. You should be able to relax and enjoy leisure time. This government makes me so angry the way they treat the backbone of our country. I'm so sorry you are having to do this to make ends meet 😔
@@crystalagate07 As soon as I recover from the surgery, I'm cutting down to 34 hours. Thank for your comment 👍.
Sending healing vibes to you ✨️
Good video thanks 🎉🎉
As always, thankyou for info given.
Get well soon, you are looking great, if maybe not feeling 100%
Why does this Government thinks it's ok to put more & more pressure on people. Who struggle with pressure. Also for with a disability and a personality disorder, depression and anxiety and the last place I worked they sacked me because of my disability. Purely because they had two other people with disabilities already working with them. Overworkers were constantly moaning behind my back people. I thought I could trust and the company decided it was a lot easier to sack me than a team of 15 people.
If they fired you because of your disability, then you can take them to a tribunal or court.
@alexanderevanska4274 what they did was because I was working in a warehouse. They said I signed a contract stating I could work in all areas of the warehouse and so in their eyes I had broken the contract. How many people? I got the union involved which was an absolute waste of time to be honest and this was 2006 and I've been fighting the DWP ever since. Soon as a new government comes in, you're not eligible then you are eligible and to take it away from you. Then you have to go to tribunals then you get it back and then within another year they're at it again. It just wears you down. But thank you for your comment
@dallasknight4854 I'm sure by law they should have given you some leeway. I myself am retired and disabled. I chose to knock 6 hours off my 40 hour week and the company had to accommodate my health problems. Best of luck to you, hope it all turns out well for you 👋
Thank you so so much!
Job Centres merging with the National Careers Service could only be positive if any and all services are voluntary with all service users under no obligation to follow any suggestions and advice and without the use of any benefit sanctions.
Great video Mr McGoo. :)
I have R.A and the stress this is giving me is making me constantly flare and depressed.
I almost killed myself last year i have Autism so talking has helped to a degree but now i have further mental health and anxiety depression because very distressing events
I hear you 🤝
@marshgirl 🤝
Take care stu
Thanks Stu. I'm autistic and I've had long covid since 2020, been very up and down. NHS Doctors just say I've just got to "put up with it". Totally inadequate. How are people supposed to be ready for work if their health issues are not being addressed and patently dismissed? I'm also a carer for my dad who has dementia, not sure how I'm going to fit in working a job as well.
I am autistic and have had long covid since 2021.I also have fibromyalgia.I recently had WCA the assessor kept asking me had I had physio had I had Cbt had I been ti the long covid.Did i have any help fir my autism.I am sure she didn't believe me when I said no help at all .I can barely survive on my own often miss meals e.tc but get no help.How I am supposed to go back to work its ridiculous.They are hoping we take a job are sacked then they don't have to pay us for months.
Glad to see you I thought you had been ban or worse arrested. Thank goodness. Never then events came to pass.
When you are fit and well (and I was for years) some people have no idea what its like to be ill, take me with MS I take pain killers every 4 hr, things that have been said to me "Can't you fight through it ?" "Push through the pain" for a long time I nodded mainly to shut them up but now I say... let me hit your feet with a hammer, I will then climb on your back and ask you too walk me around a bit ?? you'll be ok, fight through the pain ?? lets see how long you last, hope all went well my friend remember it takes 8 full week to recover, you take it easy, best wishes..
The system before 2008 where GPs gave diagnosis was a simple method to claim sickness and disability benefits.
A future sickness and disability claims process could be an automatic sickness and disability benefits entitlement based on the medical condition diagnosis from GP, doctor, consultant, specialist or hospital tests and reports with each condition having a band of severity over a spectrum.
The medical condition could include automatic points or give automatic entitlement to sickness and disability benefits either at standard or enhanced rates.
In this way sickness and disability benefits would be paid to those with medical conditions.
Sick or disabled benefit claimants could get fast tracked for medical tests and assessments in order to claim benefits.
Thanks Stew look forward to the next information video
My support worker told me in Sept that in January they are stopping my ESA and moving to UC . I was medically retired by my GP in 2016 . Chronic illness and MH . Still on going and at times hospitalised .
She then said they will stop my money for 5 weeks ( have heard it’s longer by people ) and will need to budget for that gap and then apply to the DWP for a loan to live on , heat and eat etc and it can only be applied for once . Then once the UC is in place I have to pay the loan back over 2 years . This is disgusting and has knocked me back with anxiety and self harming from fear .
I have had ‘ S ‘ ideations too.
I feel completely depersonalised . I don’t want to be here anymore .
I am also due an operation soon .
I have been victimised for my MH and sexually assaulted in the work place . I will not be able to work or trust . I have CFS too and just fall asleep . Which is dangerous .
I feel hopeless , sleepless nights .
CBT does not work for Trauma .
my youngest grandchildren age 9 and 10 found there father dead ,with no other adults around, found fit for work 1-2 months before
Unbelievably awful. and yet I hear things like this so often these days. What world do we live in?
This is the problem I have; Today, I can clean half the house and have a shower.Tomorrow and the day after I won't be able to do anything because of what I've achieved today.
Which Employer will allow a person to spend 6 hours doing a 2 hour job-WITH rests in-between and then let me have a few days off to recuperate from the day before's work? Add to that crippling anxiety -(I don't go out Dont use public transport because of it) Social phobias and O C.D
What exactly can I do if I cant get out of my bed! :-(
And even if you find a part time - 0 hour contract position - and lets say you do 3 days of 6 hour workdays plus 2 hour travel to and from work ( which don't count as work hours) and lets say you can even pick the days you do work ( not being on the high earner bracket ) the DWP will hound you constantly to get and do more hours. I am the same as you - if I manage what you mention above - I will be house and bedbound for days after and I had a position as I described and I did push myself and took on more hours.
Done that for almost 3 years to the point of now being unable to work at all.
Barely able to keep up with personal hygiene or daily chores on my own without help!
And now on heavy pain meds do to chronic muscle and joint pain.
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Another term I hate is "taxpayers money," especially when it comes to benefits. The taxpayer doesn't pay me the newspapers need to stop with this rage phrase. I agree that people like myself on benefits should be able to buy what we want with our money, what has it got to do with anyone else.
Thank you Stu. Hope that you’re keeping well my friend?
I'm ok thank you cheekster, hope you are keeping well too and thank you for your support.
New Boss. Same as the old Boss. WHO is surprised.
Exactly the poor has always paid back out of what's given any help
I have been signing on for years and recently moved to uc form jsa, when on jsa they refused to help me back to work due to my health and mental condition and because am on a control drug (prescription) so they didn't help me, moving to uc I got less money and they want me to pay 20% council tax wish is impossible. I moved to uc in Oct and have and still am signed off by doctors because my mental health and I also had an MRI last December I found out I have RA stage 3 possible 4 I told the jc and even tho am signed off they get me to do more and have more meetings.
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Mental health 'services,' are now more interested in finding excuses to discharge rather than assist. Any reason to try and reduce their lists.
That is exactly what happened to me.
When i was young in the 80"S benifits were paid 2 weeks in advance , then 1 back one forward,then 2 back,,now UC is 4 weeks back ,they save alot every change
Yeah I know what you mean , I’m on UC paid on the Same Fixed date of every month, NOT every 28 days like it should be, it’s fraud on their part, & guess what, I had my so called review last month, (It’s actually an illegal form of you & me committing benefit fraud until proven innocent,) I had to upload 3 photos of I’d, plus 4 bank statements, now I have heard that pensioners are next to be accused of benefit fraud until proved innocent ! This is scandalous and should be Stopped 🤬
Take care stu
What is interesting some medical consultants who are both NHS and private, get paid £350-500 an hour in their private practice and get another rate for NHS, so with that model of combining private with the NHS, how does anyone expect there to be no long waiting list for the NHS! They should start to have solely NHS medical consultants and solely private medical consultants on a wide scale, because neither will improve when they are joined at the hip!
Imagine treating vulnerable people even if you have no physical or mental illness with respect and love 😮
Also the government always leave out how employers won't hire people with physical or mental illnesses, employers struggle just to make basic adjustments and being aware if an employee needs help with something or you'll get treated like a burden until you cant cope anymore
If you have any sought of physical or mental illness you are screwed in the uk work culture
The uk is only built for the neurotypical
Kier Starmer is no Kier Hardy, I think Starmer turned to the right and ignored the left. After calling Jeremy Corbyn “my friend” then sacked him showed his character or lack of it. I’m 69, retired and disabled through a work place injury and I’m terrified.
its the same old crap they tried 20 years ago b4 new deal plus there's not enough jobs anyway ons states under 1 million so game over
Ps. CBT and talking therapies often don’t work for neurodivergent people I talk from experience the only thing that helped my MH was EMDR therapy
We all have hard time next year 2025 everyone take care
Hi can you please help am on universal credit unfortunately my phone broken i don't know my email address password or my details for universal credit can you please help me
That isn't something that I can help with, you would need to go into the jobcentre and speak to them
I have physical and learning disabilities as a result of epilepsy and hydrocephalus (Excess Fluid on the Brain) and am 51 years old. I am currently unemployed and am recognised as having Limited Capability for work as a result of anxiety. Over the last few months I have been humiliated by the DWP examing my bank statements and treating me over the phone like a criminal even over things such as giving my mom housekeeping (I live with my Mom and my Dad passed away 15 years ago). Fortunately I have been passed as OK after investigation by the DWP but it's led to me having a near nervous breakdown during a Job Centre Appointment and my mom is angry as a result because of how ill it's made me. Fortunately I'm hard skinned to an extent but it's only going to take one person more vulnerable than myself committing suicide as a result of this DWP harassment and the carp will surely hit the fan legally.
I've got RA & in lots of pain got a job to walk & have to keep sitting down cos the pain in my hips legs & shoulder's go through the mill every day through pure pain,some days don't no how to deal with pain but have to keep smiling some of the people in new government need to live in our lives every day, also have osteoarthritis in both knees so so painful I go out once a fortnight I make my self go out it's very hard as I suffer from acute anxiety with that & RH pain & osteoarthritis pain the anxiety the government is putting me through with worry,I wonder how I'm going to survive,DWP moaning other day don't spend £500 in Currys what happens if our fridge freezer packs in or out cooker breaks down, disabled people are just the same as any other person we on not alians cos we have disabilities, labour has changed so much for the worse there not helping people there trying to kill them off,if anyone don't like what I've put tuff,
I agree with what you have said, sorry to hear that you are going through that
Take no notice of the DWP they will tell you "no points" all day long, its the law that decides your benefit the courts are in charge not the DWP.
A lot of mental health issues could be resolved with others better managed by increased social security benefits to cover increased cost of living, price rises and inflation without benefit sanctions for those in poverty.
4:59 so I’ve seen quite a lot over the years that well people don’t understand what it’s like to be disabled even when they are fully aware of what you have wrong with you, I’m talking about my brother, in August my mum passed which of course made my already bad mental health fall of a cliff but I was given a week of been in shock and not feeling anything which let be get most of the stuff sorted but I sadly did have to go out to pick up the death certificate (the first time ied been out that wasn’t an emergency trip to hospital in an ambulance in 16 year) and stuff like that and my bro was playing taxi for us but there was often quite a walk between parking space and building we needed to get to so he is walking at a normal human pace meanwhile I’m running a full on Marathon going as fast as I possibly can and he still had to stop every few meters to let me catch back up, it must have been quite comical to watch it must have been 50 meters at most but I’m looking like I’ve just ran a hundred miles though the Sahara desert in the midday sun, at to top off the joke I’m the younger brother by 10 years😅.
The thing that makes it worse with these politicians is they don’t care no matter how much they claim otherwise and disabled people are easy targets to them as for a lot of them they don’t go out be it for mental or physical reasons so their voices and faces don’t get counted their just a shadow that can be ignored or that’s how they see it .
Hello Stuart hope you're well, i was wondering if you can help clear something up for me, if you were on Income related ESA, then Managed migration over to UC LCWRA receiving transitional protection payments for previous ESA's SDP & EDP, afterwards you have a pip review and they knock you off PIP and you're appealing, am i right in believing UC will automatically remove your transitional protection payment if PIP is denied, if so once pip has been reinstated after appeal is it possible to fight to get the incorrectly removed transitional protection payment reinstated and backdated?
I would expect it to effect the payment and then I would fight for it to be reinstated. My best advice is always get support to do so.
Hi Stu a self motivated query, but would imagine that there are thousands like me of feeling completely in the dark. In that does the DWP have any plans/rumours, as to how the pensioners in receipt of PIP may be affected by any potential changes to PIP please.
I am a professional for any type of Benefit claims. I offer detailed claim form writing and advice. Teaching various unknown services and claims that you may not be aware about being entitled to. I will say right now what the only core reason that PIP is ever changed or redesigned for.. It is to skim millions of Pounds off the top of claimants salaries by making sure that the previous claim that you presented to them still gets you an award but it is minus a few points and has dropped you into a lower rate.
I am very aware of these stunts and tricks that the Elite Government implement in order to save millions and demoralise and sabotage a few millions vulnerable individuals whilst they are at it.
Hi ,
I’m currently looking for an independent advisor , to assist with benefit issues . Do you have a website i can look at ? Thank you . DC
The thing is there was a furlough during the pandemic and after the great resignation followed. I think there maybe need to concentrate on the 4 day working week and WFH so people don't get burned out and ill from an overload of work and unecessary travel.
I have Motor neurone disease and have just put in for P.I.P with the new SR1 form signed by my G.P. They have refused it. I have polycythemia also. I dont think i will bother
You need ro appeal that and have support from a professional to do so. Don't let them win
@StuartMcGoo Thankyou.
I have now involved the MNDA and their benefits advisors. . Apparently the SR 1 now gets sent to the assessors ( capita) and they were the ones to refuse it. I asked what the assessors job title was. IE a consultant/ G.P
The case manager couldn't answer it. She didn't know. Could have been anyone. 🤔
Really disabled people vary in productivity, i.e. some might be 20% productive as a normally healthy person, some 60% some 80%. Flexibility is important to tap this potential. e.g. sick days.
But I understand there are a lot of storys where people try to work. But they just end up getting dismissed.
Is there a minimum floor of productivity? should it be 50%? Perhaps there should be laws for enforced flexibility?
Has your friend tried a 13” iPad Pro? They now have eye tracking and photoshop and Logic Pro have been converted for a ui/ux that needs larger ‘touch’ zones - the eye tracking accessibility in iOS 18 might work better than a pc up that is built around micro movements of a mouse.
Good suggestion, I will ask
Between the collapse of mental health in uk. Even young people are now diagnosed with depression, in large numbers and the cuts to PIP. This country will collapse faster than pronouncing the word PIP.
its streesful enough being without money home ect ' let alone be blamed for the finacial crisis this country is in ' ill people dont get much choice as it is ' its all become political ' some drs & nurses look & judge the ill who are unemployed now ' by assumption ' the ill cant do nothing right ' it isnt any wonder why more ill people are getting more & more stressed by the day is it 🤷♂️
i am aware of i glaze technology and i have used this technology. i don't think this technology will fiit your friends needs. i used a form of i-gaze technology whilst accessing the access to work scheme. i am not sure if i still have the suppliers contact details.