Mar 15, 202310 minTurning a terrible mess into a toxic one: #Budget2023The budget today announced a lot of stuff, and most of it I’m not qualified to comment on. I’m interested, because I have a sister with...
Dec 11, 20194 minPIP: locking chronically ill people out of disabled benefitsPIP isn’t supposed to be about diagnoses. But even with my diagnoses, I have major difficulties getting benefits assessors from a range...
Dec 11, 20195 minLearning to live with chronic illness without independenceRecently I failed a PIP appeal. I get standard rate mobility - which at one point the Tribunal were minded to take away - but was...
Dec 11, 20194 minPIP: maintaining poverty, removing choiceThe point of extra-costs disability benefits is to meet some of the costs experienced by people with disability, in order to raise them...