Thanks for the offer of help and advice Autistamatic. Appreciated.
There are a couple of things about the way the Government handle people with conditions like M.E / Autism or mental health difficulties which i find difficult to get my head around and impossible to comprehend.
I'm generally a no nonsense, common sense Yorkshireman which when you add the often stubborn / rigidity of autism makes for an interesting cocktail! lol
Just think of a stereotypical Yorkshireman. Blunt, miserable and gruff and then chuck in autism and you have me! That's why i'm amazed i've had a partner for 18 years.
Anyway.
1. The Government are employing more and more people to deal with PIP claims and to try and dissuade people from appealing which costs more money. Each appeal costs even more money. Tribunals cost even more money and then i believe over half of tribunal appeals are successful anyway! So they effectively spend millions trying to save millions. It's quite frankly ludicrous IMO.
Just give those deserving cases the help they need and it wouldn't even cost them anymore that it is now.
2. The Government or the Department of Work and Pensions basically look at your case if you have M.E / CFS and decide that for 5 days out of 7 for example you are generally functional therefore they think you are capable of not only getting a job but holding down a job. Because i am 'OK' for 2 days a week then in their eyes i can work.
What they don't take into account is the nature of the illness. Which two days am i going to be ok on then? Because i sure as hell don't know. Who is going to give me a job at two days a week and even then two days which could be Monday and Friday one week and Tuesday and Friday the next because i'm not well enough on the Monday? Nobody.
What they should start doing is linking up with employers and finding flexible positions that people in my position are able to do without pressure as and when and support us instead of just forcing us into poverty because our illness dictates when we are able to work, for how long and what we are able to do if at work.
They don't understand the sense of isolation such a condition brings with it as well as the depression and reluctance to want things to change through fear and the lack of confidence around other people but they suddenly expect you to jump out of bed, put your 'game face' on, ignore the exhaustive fatigue, brain fog and pain and go and work in Greggs for 4 hours serving never ending queues of people.
The Government and DWP in this area alone are not fit for purpose and there is no way i will ever vote Conservative or even Labour again because they treat their elderly, homeless, vulnerable, sick and disabled like lepers.
Sorry about the rant again.
Thanks again for the offer Autistamatic.
There are a couple of things about the way the Government handle people with conditions like M.E / Autism or mental health difficulties which i find difficult to get my head around and impossible to comprehend.
I'm generally a no nonsense, common sense Yorkshireman which when you add the often stubborn / rigidity of autism makes for an interesting cocktail! lol
Just think of a stereotypical Yorkshireman. Blunt, miserable and gruff and then chuck in autism and you have me! That's why i'm amazed i've had a partner for 18 years.
Anyway.
1. The Government are employing more and more people to deal with PIP claims and to try and dissuade people from appealing which costs more money. Each appeal costs even more money. Tribunals cost even more money and then i believe over half of tribunal appeals are successful anyway! So they effectively spend millions trying to save millions. It's quite frankly ludicrous IMO.
Just give those deserving cases the help they need and it wouldn't even cost them anymore that it is now.
2. The Government or the Department of Work and Pensions basically look at your case if you have M.E / CFS and decide that for 5 days out of 7 for example you are generally functional therefore they think you are capable of not only getting a job but holding down a job. Because i am 'OK' for 2 days a week then in their eyes i can work.
What they don't take into account is the nature of the illness. Which two days am i going to be ok on then? Because i sure as hell don't know. Who is going to give me a job at two days a week and even then two days which could be Monday and Friday one week and Tuesday and Friday the next because i'm not well enough on the Monday? Nobody.
What they should start doing is linking up with employers and finding flexible positions that people in my position are able to do without pressure as and when and support us instead of just forcing us into poverty because our illness dictates when we are able to work, for how long and what we are able to do if at work.
They don't understand the sense of isolation such a condition brings with it as well as the depression and reluctance to want things to change through fear and the lack of confidence around other people but they suddenly expect you to jump out of bed, put your 'game face' on, ignore the exhaustive fatigue, brain fog and pain and go and work in Greggs for 4 hours serving never ending queues of people.
The Government and DWP in this area alone are not fit for purpose and there is no way i will ever vote Conservative or even Labour again because they treat their elderly, homeless, vulnerable, sick and disabled like lepers.
Sorry about the rant again.
Thanks again for the offer Autistamatic.
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