Hi
I am due to be assessed for PIP in 2015, when I will be 66.
I was assessed as Higher Mobility indefinitely. If I fail to be assessed as enhanced mobility when my Parkinson's gets even more of a problem I'll be too old to get the higher mobility of DLA, because once you are 65 you cannot apply for DLA.
This means I can not keep the motoblity car and can not reapply for one. Anybody got any thoughts on this
Hi Bunny
Like you I'm dreading the new PIP reassessments. My husband and I both struggle with mobility but fear we won't meet the criteria for the higher rate under the new rules. We rely heavily on our car and don't know how we'd manage without it. I feel like "forgetting" to take any meds on the assessment day so I'm at my very worst but I'm too honest to do this.
Why is it that although pension age has increased the cut off age for DLA hasn't changed?
Hi Bunny
I am in exactly the same position & I am worried that under the PIP new rules that i will not get it. I also have a motobility car & need an automatic now so won't be happy if I lose it as I rely on it so much. They don't understand that Parkinson's is a degenerative condition & also very variable from day to day or hour to hour. I have thought about forgetting to take my medication also.
Ceal
I cannot make any accurate predictions on this subject,however, the anxiety you show over the subject is very real whether founded or not....that was just how I felt when Incapacity benefit was changed to ESA. There was so much bad publicity on the go that it was no wonder it caused so much anxiety.
I hope this will be of some comfort to you and proves to be the case for you when the time comes.
If you have been awarded any benefit in the past and your circumstances remain unchanged without hope of improvement in the future...then those benefits will remain whatever new name any Government decides to give them. Just as with Incapacity Benefit...while the right of appeal exists then appeals in all cases would swamp the system and leave the system itself and the Government of the day in an untenable and unworkable position.
Lets just hope that common sense and justice wins out in the end.....perhaps you might want to pause for thought the next time you put a cross on a candidates name at the ballot box.
Peter
PIP
What a nightmare ....i made a initial telephone call to start the process early September i was told the usual that within the next ten days i would get ' part 2 '
Well the form did not arrive i duly called DWP only to be told that they did not have enough information about me on there system to identify me which i thought some what strange when i had other benefits so was on Dwp system , i was told i would be sent a letter to take to my local job centre with a suitable form of identification until that was done the PIP claim would not progress any further
After numerous telephone calls to DWP about the form i told that they do not know why i am not being sent the form i was told i would get a call back within 5 days to try sort it out
Well here we are 7 weeks later no form no call back nothing
Anyone else had similar problems ?
Peter, the DLA budget was cut by 20% when it became PIP, and the criteria for qualifying for higher rate mobility was changed to 20 metres, meaning that anyone who can walk 20 metres or more may not qualify for higher rate mobility, even if they are getting it now.
This, and the disastrous Work Capability Assessments (WCA) which have passed many people as 'fit for work' just weeks before death, is just part of the reason I signed and am helping to promote the WOW petition. This calls for a cumulative impact assessment of welfare reform as it applies to sick and disabled people, and an end to the WCA (as called for by the British Medical Association in 2012. Please have a look at www.wowpetition.com It has nearly 80,000 signatures, and needs 100,000 by 12th December to trigger a Parliamentary debate.
There are only three things 100% certain in life death taxes and a tory government taking benefits from the sick poor and jobless, I am waiting patiently for the opposition parties to make a bit of a racket over this shameful theft of our rights and entitlements, all I hear is silence??
FED
Hello,
Well I have had a visit from the guy who fills in the forms, then a young lady who filled them in again whilst asking questions about my disability , do these people I am going to somehow effect a total recovery, and that I am only pretending to be 98% shut down and immobile or that I enjoy waking up to struggle to the loo , for the first time since childhood I wet myself last night I feel ashmed and demeaned by parkies invasion now I have been on the highest level of DA, and since I was awarded that level of entitlement my health has worsened but I am not confident in receiving the highest PIP i WILL UPDATE IN 6 WEEKS thats how long I will have to wait.
ARMOURED
It is without doubt the most degrading thing that I have ever had to do in my life so far, it feels to me like you having to almost apologise and beg for assistance when you have a recognised neurological degenerative condition I just do not understand the reasoning behind it at all. I fully appreciate that many people have conned the system for years and years which is why its probably in the state that it is in now but when you have a recognised condition and you are struggling to not only keep yourself together but house and home too through no fault of your own where is the compassion the understanding the nature of this illness.....I did not apply for benefits as soon as I was diagnosed because I did not need to but now I do and my god how much do I hate having to go through it. All the best and fingers crossed for you
