Tag: Benefits

  • PIP update

    Today my PIP mandatory reconsideration arrived, quite ironic as my Motability car goes back on Monday! I had asked them to reconsider some of the points as they had said I could do things that I can’t. It seems that they know better than me what I can and can’t do and they told me…

  • I lost 4 months to PIP

    The dreaded brown envelope, telling that my DLA was ending and that I needed to apply for PIP, landed on my doormat at the end of March. I had been awaiting its arrival for 3 years. It gave me just 3 weeks to apply, 2 of those weeks were school holiday and the form was…

  • New Year, Same Old

    As ever Christmas has completely wiped me out, I feel really ill and in pain and don’t know what to do with myself, I want to sleep for weeks, but not an option as a) I don’t sleep well and b) life goes on regardless. Christmas was very hectic and I had little help or…

  • Please don’t judge me

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  • Benefits

    This is a useful link from Action for ME to benefits.  I am worried about transferring to PIP from DLA. I will lose my entitlement to a motability car  and possibly blue badge depending how they assess. Will be stuck without blue badge and will lose the tiny bit of independence that I have eg won’t be able to…