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I use my pip payment to pay for taxis and to get me to my part time job I have all my aids in my home to help me I don’t need vouchers at all it sounds like a badly thought out plan

I have tried to fill out this awful PIP consultation, I have severe psoriatic arthritis in both hands and wrists and find it hard to type out full sentences as it's extremely painful, I really didn't want to do this at all and wanted to have my own personal say on this, but due to my difficulties and excessive pain I had to copy and paste Work and Benefits responses to the PIP consultation, which I found so much easier to do, but not the most ideal and justified thing to do, obviously it was edited so it came from a single person point of view the answers W&B come up with were excellent and answered some of my own thoughts on this terrible consultation. I feel like I have plagiarised Shakespeare doing this but I wanted to put across that I don't agree with this consultation at all and trust W&B so I hope they don't mind me doing this, I would not have been able to do it an other way. It's took me hours to write this short post out.

I don't know if it could work but like many more l am terrified that it won't ,I need to pay my bills and worried I won't be able to do so , I am wheelchair bound and rely on the money 

And also the disabled people and children and any other well people living hand to mouth you've got a heart of stone.

I am sorry but I do suffer with mental health and depression and taking people's money away from them and making them into vouchers is not a good idea would you you like to live on vouchers people need that money just like I do to live ( As like you you you've never live on the street's or live in shared housing or been without money most people have been very unfortunate in there and they need money to live so think about what you are doing to us (please)

I have disabilaties heart condition and need this to help me live ..  thyriod problem syndrome vcfs . We need to keep them as they are we never asked for disabilaties 

Any Government seeking to take away money from people and the feeling of self worth should not be in power. Disabled people have a enough to worry about. Take away their money how are they going to pay for help taxis the window cleaner the gardener. Some one to take them shopping. That money pays for things you can not pay with a voucher.  If the labour party let this happen they are not any better than the Tories. 

Vouchers are a bad idea people are using the money for extra heating better diet travel cost they don't claim it to be be littled they already feel worthless and don't have a good quality of life and there familays always come last in a long line of necessities which put there familay lives under pressure and makes them feel worthless and unvalued carers and unpaid carers we just want to be valued and the person who it affects is the person who needs to be respected has being able to make decisions for them selfs and not being made to look like they are stupid

This is madness,don't you think people have enough to deal with on a daily basis without trying to give people useless vouchers and putting people in even more financial difficulty.This government needs to really think carefully about what upset this is going to bring 

https://www.parallelparliament.co.uk/debate/2024-03-26/commons/westminster-hall/disability-benefits. Just came across this article on minister for dwp Stephen timms talking about conservative green paper proposal. Mr timm was actually saying it’s bad to change pip cash payments to vouchers so hopefully we give us all a bit of hope to end this disgusting green paper gimmick 

I cannot understand how such a scheme can even be suggested in the first place! I have MS and have been suffering with it for nine going on ten years now! Plus Scoliosis which I have had All my life! And even though I am disabled and I definitely do not want any sympathy, I still have bills to pay and as you know Vouchers cannot pay the bills especially as you know as increased! 

It's an absolutely stupid idea having to visit clothing shops and supermarkets with vouchers as your payable method You'd feel alienated from everybody else who use cash and cards We are not in world war three just yet People with physical illness can develop a mental illness because they've no money People with mental illness won't be able to go out as normal and could develop physical illnesses through lack of exercise Then people gossip Look at them using vouchers for clothing and food It's an open door to degrade someone more than they might feel already I could go on and on about this new idea to save money but one last point is Why should the most needy suffer for government debt to a prison of vouchers!

What rubbish is this? PLEASE KEEP IT CASH. Being declare that you can’t work than to read this none-sense is like WHAT?. Voucher doesn’t even come near to what PIP money does with me for my everyday needs. I can’t even begin to explain how much of help this is every month. I’m pretty much some people are on the same boat as me. We can’t keep up with food rent gas electricity bills due to 

What none-sense is this? What rubbish is this?. PIP money helps me with a LOT OF THINGS. What am I suppose to do with a voucher? 

I agree with others this is ridiculous and giving to stress and struggle to disabled people 

I have physical and mental disabilities at least 40 diagnosis physical and mental altogether. I agree with others opinion that for someone like me this voucher idea even making me more ill now because it just won’t work for my needs, impossible. It’s actually extremely worrying to hear this idea still is on. I thought with the new government this will change to back to same as before. There are things and needs cannot be sorted via voucher. If the voucher is the same as the money amount, what do you save by doing this. This is just making disabilities life harder and more stressful. Stress is already cause of almost every illness except the genetics or other outside causes. It’s not fair because this means you don’t believe in and trust disabilities. It’s like an assult to us, to doctors and examiners. Making life harder and unhappier and this is not done to any other people who lives with other benefits, it’s only done to the people who are disabled. The thing I don’t understand the people will use the voucher let’s say if the person is getting 500pounds benefit. What is being saved and protected by doing this. It’s really hurtful and I won’t ever be able to understand why the ideas going backwards like poor country’s treat their disabled people like that. Even the poor countries recently started to pay for their disabled citizens. And a country like UK, trying to make it like not understandable way. It’s just sad. It’s just making you feel like I wish I was healthy like others. Yes, this is probably their aim but some illnesses are not fixable and my every condition is a life long ones , some of them from born, some of them auto immune disease and some connected causes and triggers so I just don’t understand why would you make your citizen regret being disabled, it’s like a threat. So some people go back to work. Then if there is an aim like this, do not smash the ones who didn’t deserve this treat by including all that amount people , just because from every 100 people 10 of them is still ill/disable but workable level. I would never judge anyone as they/some people are not disabled. There are many things in this life can be invisible. You can’t go into people’s body to mark their level of pain and suffer and what went through what they are going through, what they lived. It really shakes my heart and all my body parts into tears. If there is a problem like that government doesn’t believe, I don’t think this should be the way to solve an issue like this by giving stress and suffer to your disabled citizens life. It could of have been solved in many other ways as a solution options. 

Can we access the consultation and respond to it? 

When there's a new petitions committee, spooled up on UK Petitions, start one to put politicians salary, expenses and allowances paid in vouchers, see how they like it.🤣

B@$***** The lot of them, I've picked up a spinal injury that causes bouts of paralysis and constant pain, I applied back in February and was meant to get results in April, after being declined because they assessed me based on my best day and totally ignored everything I told them when I was at my worst. My mandatory reconsideration was meant to be concluded by June which was the end of the 8 week period and I'm now being told I have to wait until the 12th of August and now I see why. If it changes to vouchers they're gonna say I'm not inclined to any backpayments as the system has now changed. Thieves the lot of them

I am on pip and I think it's ridiculous expecting  people to use vouchers  will the electric  and gas except vouchers  to pay for these