UC/incapacity unreasonable hurdles- stick with it and then can we help more?

Thanks greatly for that - what you say sounds reasonable and I have tried over the last few years with them to be reasonable, waiting over 12 months before I could even make the claim, another year doing the incapacity and PIP paperwork, explaining each time to them I am doing my best - to now get this one week request.

To help other people:
' - you can call it coincidence or not - after 9 months of waiting for the additional sums of UC a letter to my MP got a reply from dwp. I should have done it sooner.
- UC isn't universal. You know that. I was daft and didn't. More forms, calls, dreadful interviews and hassle and after 18 months I got enough to live on and pay bills and food. So - the message is that is possible, if I can do it I hope it gives encouragement - don't give up, don't beat yourself up or worse, find any way to get support. I got a very supportive friend as a carer, he gets paid and amaxzingly he gets quite a bit more UC; he helps me with the forms and the interviews. Having extra help is really the only way for some of us - and my aged parents, my unwell sibling have not been anywhere near well enough to claim. I am the first to get it done - so I want to spread this message of hope and share the results.
- rent/bedrooms/ deductions - I dont get enough to pay the bills AND food. One key reason is my one bedroom flat which is not fancy or anything gets paid 75%. I don't understand how they arrived at that figure. A friend in a 2 bed which costs 25% more gets paid more overall by quite a bit (and of course has to pay more rent - but then he has more room obviously, I moved to a smaller place as I thought I would get that bedroom 2 deducted and that would make me more worried about money). I will look into this when I have energy - but I pass info on as it can make all the difference (enough for a monthly food bill).
- Can we do more outside in public, on socials? I am going to meet my MP and do the social media thing, thank you folks on here and try to shed a light on this lack of humanity in the UC DWP system, how expensive it is, how it is making people sicker and costing a ton more (I reckon I will need maybe another year for various treatments).
- if anyone has ideas of how we can do more eg joining up with MPs and other bodies then let's do it. I went to westminster last night just to get a sense of what the possibilities are and I reckon without going into politics that messages well delivered now could change things like this appalling process even in a small way. Some of the more bonkers things like rooms in the job centre where you can hear them, no 7 day requests for a letter than no pension company would dream of writing.

- I am not a natural in front of the camera for social media. But I have the kit and I am teaching myself how to edit and I know a lot of our leaders are worried about their futures so I sense for those of you who are bolder now is the time to get a voice on social media!

Thanks in advance and I hope this is the right place to write this.

TJ