No 4 point PIP descriptors results
| Submission ID: 1161454 |
| Date: 2025-04-08 03:09:29 |
| Nickname: Mickey |
| Age: 30 |
| Main health condition: Mental health |
| Main conditions that affect daily living: I suffer with severe PTSD, following prolonged sexual abuse. I also suffer with anxiety and depression as secondary to the PTSD. These conditions take a toll on your physical health - I have no stamina and have developed agoraphobia. |
| Rate of PIP daily living component: Enhanced |
| 4 point descriptor score: No |
| Possibility to score at least one 4-point daily living descriptor at the next review: I never have before, despite the fact I probably should have. |
| Tasks you struggle with on a day-to-day basis: I struggle to maintain a daily routine - brain fog causes me to forget even the most basic tasks like eating. I forget medication. Flashbacks can be mild or they can be so bad I can’t leave my bed. I can’t cook, because I have in the past forgotten the stove was on. I struggle to engage with others, even on the phone. |
| Expected income you will lose if the Green Paper cuts are imposed: All of it except housing benefit - but with bedroom tax to pay, and council tax that will rise because I’m not on PIP I will end up in debt very quickly - debt that I just can’t see a way of being able to clear. I’ll likely lose my home, I have been homeless before and it’s an extremely traumatic idea - I keep circling the date in my head, November 2026, the day that I’ll lose everything. In reality my reassessment is several months after that but to summarise. I cannot work, I can barely leave my house to go to the bins. These changes would affect… - Rent, I’d be unable to pay the bedroom tax - Council Tax, I’d be unable to pay a bill that would rise - Utilities, I’d have a small amount of money left, and I’d have to prioritise food over keeping warm. Cold has always triggered my flashbacks, I’ve never known why. - Food, I’d have to be careful about food, I already manage one meal a day, but when my income is zero I won’t be able to get food delivered, forcing me into uncomfortable and unsafe areas to go and buy food in person. I don’t think I can do it, I have starved before and I will likely starve again. |
| Expected problems if you tried moving into work, with support from a work coach: There’s no magic cure for what’s wrong with me. No job coach with their 2 weeks training will be able to understand my issues. Assuming they found a job for me, It would need to be specialised indeed for someone who can’t maintain concentration, can’t mix with other people and suffers agoraphobia. |
| Anything else to tell us: What the government is planning is, as others have said “eugenics by economics” and openly discriminatory. Despite warnings about what will happen to people like me, they’re pushing ahead anyway. “For the many, not the few”. What a betrayal. I want to make it absolutely clear that within 6 months of me losing my PIP, I will spend all my small savings, rack up debt, lose my home, I will struggle on the streets before I will finally kill myself, because I can’t go back to that life. Thats one choice that’s still mine. There’s no reason anyone like me has to die, and despite my depression I don’t want to die - I want to get better from what was done to me. I want MY LIFE back - PIP allows me the independence to seek out help, whether it’s private counselling, or trying to socialise online. It means I have a door that I can lock at night to know that I am safe. PIP is my lifeline - and if you cut that away then people like me will die. So I want it to be absolutely clear - we have told you exactly what will happen, you’re not just throwing us into poverty you’re throwing away our lives, and you don’t have to. I’d beg the Labour Party to show it’s different than the Tories - Show you listen to what the people want and the people have given you a clear “No” on these cuts. So show that you’re different - admit that the cuts are a mistake, shelve them, and then begin a consultation with all types of disabled people, to see how you can actually fix the broken benefit system. We don’t have to die, and admitting that you’re wrong, that you have listened to the people and changed your mind - is not a weakness - it’s a strength. A strength I beg and pray that Labour will show. But I expect we’ll be ignored just like the Tories did, there will be talk of work that will overshadow people like me, I’ll die silently, pointlessly and totally avoidably - and no one will even remember my name, because they were too busy talking over, or for me - to listen to what we, the disabled have to say. I’d like to thank Benefits and Work - You’ve kept me alive, fed and safe when I had no idea what to do, what you do makes a huge difference - but we all know there will be deaths with these cuts and I know from my situation that in this ‘sink or swim’ cruel test, I can’t swim. |
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