media campaign against claimants deepens to include disabled pensioners

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1253071...bility-benefits.html

Should have known that as soon as I reached the safety net of State Pension the Government would find some other way to shaft me. PIP is the only reason I will be able to keep my head above water financially. How on earth ANYONE survives on £203.85 a week is beyond me. Why don't they had us all euthenasia pills and make life easier for them. Or should I be tempting fate like that!

This is only the thoughts os a campaign group but that;s how it usually starts. Steve Web was pensions minister for the Lib Dems if I remember rightly during Cameron's coalition. My opinion is that if DWP are going to eventually make PIP entitlement the benchmark for getting the proposed Universal Health Payment which is coming in when the WCA is scrapped, then it is my suspicion (and only that), they could look at making PIP harder to qualify for, especially for working age claimants just prior to them passing over to pension age.I stress, this isn't a DWP body it is a campaign or lobbying group, a think tank or whatever one calls it but worth keeping an eye on.

Micksville this looks very ominous for all those hoping to hang onto their PIP payments once they reach pension age. They constantly move the goal posts to shaft us when you consider they also have plans to raise the pension age yet again. On a side note I hope no one on this site is still foolish enough to think Labour will ride to the rescue

Couldn't agree more regarding Labour!

With regard to the PIP issue with Pensioners. Typical, just as I am nearing original retirement (60) I discover it's not 60 it's 65. I am just getting over that shock to find out that it's suddently morphed into 66. So now that elusive 66 is just around the corner for me they are apparently about to shaft me and others yet again! They've already dumped on a lot of pensioners when they changed the rules for claiming pension credit. Such as you can no longer claim it if you have a working age partner, they are expected to pick up any shortfall in finance, no matter what their actual wages nor even if indeed they are well enough to work. It surprises me not that the narrative regarding pensioners and PIP is changing. This lot would be happier if we would all just shuffle off to heaven or hell before we even get to claim any pension, let alone have the temerity to ask for more support because working beyond our years finished us off!

Twisted Witch a real irony is that right wing papers like the Daily Mail are constantly reminding their readership mainly the comfortably off that they should apply for PIP and Attendance Allowance since they are not means tested and many can afford to pay these private firms to fill their forms in for them-gobsmacking hypocrisy but then I suppose these must be the "deserving" sick rather than the" scrounging "variety