You hear one benefit scandal story and you feel it can not get worse, then you hear another and another and another…. and realise that it can.
It is not just in respect of PIP, but ESA, Universal Credit and any others.
It is not, just, that the PIP assessment process is ‘unfit for purpose’, but the whole benefit process no matter which benefit is involved.
I feel this Government will not rest until all benefit claimants are forced into death, so that no benefits need to be paid because all possible benefit claimants will be dead.
The Government needs to be charged with undertaking Criminal Acts in their dealings with Benefit Claimants.
Benefit Claimants have Human Rights, but these are not recognised by this Government. If these actions were being conducted by any other persons or authorities the charge could be Terrorism, so why not this Government.
Exclusive: Severely disabled woman told moving from mobility chair to sofa suggested she could walk 200 metres unaided
A woman in a wheelchair was stripped of her disability benefits on the basis that she was able to walk four steps during an assessment. WHAT THE HELL!!!! I THOUGHT THE CRITERIA WAS 20 METRES!!!! Michelle Wyatt, 45, who had been diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome (ME) 23 years ago, was forced to survive on £1 ready meals and without heating after her Personal Independence Payment (PIP) was stopped.
The York resident said the withdrawal of her disability benefit – which amounted to £75 a week and which she had been receiving since 1998 – had left her feeling suicidal.
The decision to stop her support came after a benefit assessor visited her home in December and concluded that she was no longer eligible for PIP – a disability benefit that replaced Disability Living…
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