No 4 point PIP descriptors results
| Submission ID: 1161285 |
| Date: 2025-04-07 22:39:32 |
| Nickname: Winstone Smith |
| Age: 54 |
| Main health condition: Both physical and mental health |
| Main conditions that affect daily living: Autism, depression, anxiety, copd, coronary artery disease |
| Rate of PIP daily living component: Standard |
| 4 point descriptor score: No |
| Possibility to score at least one 4-point daily living descriptor at the next review: In a fair world, I would get it but judging by my past experience with pip assessments it is highly likely that I wouldn'y |
| Tasks you struggle with on a day-to-day basis: Just getting through an average day is exhausting. I have only so many 'spoons' and I have to pick and choose the tasks I do so as to not use them up. I might wash once a fortnight and I can't remember when I last brushed my teeth. Many days are a write off due to the severe headaches I get. My memory is very poor and I forget to do things that come back to haunt me later. Like paying bills on time. I struggle to engage with people and things that are simple to others go wrong because I am unable to deal with them. Things get much worse during that winter and the summer as I struggle to function at all in extremes of heat and cold. All it takes is for one random encounter with another person to go wrong and my world can utterly collapse for weeks. I have suicidal thoughts and I have self harmed on numerous occasions. Much of this goes unrecorded as engaging with medical services is nightmarish and getting a doctors appointment is beyond me for most of the time. |
| Expected income you will lose if the Green Paper cuts are imposed: I would lose about 340 a month in pip and then I suspect I would fall foul of the universal credit system. |
| Expected problems if you tried moving into work, with support from a work coach: I suspect I would soon get sanctioned. When I was migrated to Universal Credit my mental and physical health rapidly declined and it took a letter from my mental health nurse sent by registered mail to the job centre to make them leave me alone until the LCWRA came through. I had decided that it I was forced to engage with the again I would kill myself as it would be a more dignified end that being sanctioned into poverty until I became homeless and died on the the streets from my heart and breathing issues., |
| Anything else to tell us: I find it hard to believe that the government are planning to do this. Since its announcement both my mental and physical health have declined . I have needed to engaged with crisis services at least ten times in the last month. The language used is reminiscent of that which the nazis used, and the inference that we are all pretending to be sick to get a pittance of money is sickening. It doesn't take a genius to work out that this 4 point situation was reverse engineered to get the exact amount of money that the chancellor needed to balance the budget. This is clearly being done for no other reason than to take money from those that the government feel cannot fight back. Many people will died because of this and I suspect that I shall be one of them. |
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