DisabledAceSocialist

Seen on reddit. Someone asked: "What happens after the welfare cuts? I feel this has not been thought through properly. There are currently over 1.6 million people actively looking for work, and around 736,000 jobs available."

Another redditor responded: "*I work in a job centre.

We are openly told by line managers there is no plan. The reforms will mean many people lose out directly (their PIP is cut), but also indirectly (carers of people with PIP are entitled to an additional rate on UC).

The main things we are being trained for is an increase in 6PP situations (suicidal claimants) and additional training on managing those with severe health conditions whilst on UC.

The Work Capability Assessment system is expected to totally collapse immediately after the reforms are implemented due to demand as people denied PIP scramble to get LCWRA classification.

Even the harshest people on my team see it as a disasterous act of cruelty, as someone put it "saying the quiet part out loud."*

What is the government hoping will happen? There aren't enough jobs already. Do they hope everyone just kills themselves? Or turns to crime like mugging and shoplifting?

No wonder the UK is the second most miserable country on earth: https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/nri/latest-updates/uk-is-officially-the-worlds-second-most-miserable-country-these-were-the-happiest-and-unhappiest-countries-of-2023/articleshow/108361220.cms?from=mdr

Not long ago I posted an article about how Christians were trying to have the Pride flags removed. Now the council has given in and removed them.

*It is not clear how many people complained but one was Cornerstone Bookshop, run by a Christian charity, which said it was “grateful for the speedy removal” of the Pride flag.

Judy Crook, who runs the bookshop, told the Guardian that, though as “a point of basic Christian belief, we welcome everybody”, they did not want to promote homosexuality and “we’re not happy with the gay rights situation”.

“We have to respect other people’s views. But we didn’t want the flag flying outside our shop.”

In a statement, the bookshop added: “Fortunately, we are blessed in this country with freedom of conscience and freedom of religion legislation, enshrined in the Equality Act of 2010 which allows religion or belief as a protected characteristic. We are therefore very grateful for the speedy removal of this flag when we raised our concern to the council.”*

Endless bureaucracy with no humanity.

Well, obviously I'm not currently in receipt of it due to my appeal, but still. When I first started claiming, people were often rude and insulting towards me because of it, but as my illness progressed and I pretty much withdrew from the world, I thought at least I wouldn't have to listen to it any more. But today I'm even getting it at home from my landlady.

She gave her daughter £20K for a house deposit last year. She couldn't afford it, she put it on a credit card, at least most of it. Now she's in debt and complains about it constantly. She sucks up to her daughter and then takes her frustrations out on me. Just now she was on the phone to her daughter, and her daughter was telling her about how she has a holiday planned, after just coming back from abroad, and has just bought a new expensive bike, and been out partying, etc, all kinds of expensive things. And my landlady was cooing "Ooh how lovely!" and acting all nice about it.

As soon as she got off the phone, she started angrily having a go at me, saying when my benefits are reinstated and I've paid off the rent debt that's racking up, she's putting my rent up by 50% as she needs the money. I didn't feel this was fair and said it's not my fault she's in debt, she shouldn't have given her daughter £20K if she couldn't afford it. She started yelling, "She needs a house, and she works for her money! You don't even work for yours!"

And talking about how it's her money anyway as she used to be a taxpayer and my benefits come out of taxes. Well, I used to be a taxpayer too before becoming disabled.

It sounds pathetic but I feel like crying now. I've got no-one to talk to in real life. I haven't spoken to anyone but my horrid landlady, medical staff and delivery drivers in years. It just drives home that everyone from the DWP to the government to the general public thinks I'm undeserving of even the basic necessities of life and a burden to everyone. They act like benefit claimants are living it up, having a wonderful time, when the reality is reassessments on average every 2 years for me, appeals, and having to beg for every little thing.

If it wasn't for this site I would have ended it by now, this is the only place I have for friendship, emotional support and financial help. But even here I have to repost over and over on mutual aid when I need something, wondering if I'll be able to get the things I need. And forget ever having anything just for fun or pleasure, or to make life worthwhile, that's a distant dream. I try to convince myself that I'll get my benefits reinstated and then I'll be able to do the online art course I want to take and join the Order of Druids, but in reality who knows if I'll win my appeal or if I'll even by able to do anything after a 50% rent increase.

I don't understand why they won't just legalise assisted suicide for the disabled, nobody wants us anyway. And I hate those stupid cancer adverts for macmillan and cancer research, showing cancer patients surrounded by caring loved ones, showered with support and given all the help they need. It's not like that at all. At first people are shocked by your diagnosis and sympathetic but as your illness wears on and you get worse people get tired of you and can't be bothered with you any more. The country doesn't want to pay for you, the NHS waiting list is a million years long so your condition ends up worse than it had to be, and everyone treats you like scum because you don't work any more.

And I get blamed for my landlady's debt, just like the disabled in general get blamed for the country's debt. The disabled are accused of bankrupting the country with the benefits bill while MPs give themselves a payrise. I get told my benefits aren't my money anyway and that I'll have to pay more while my landlady almost bankrupted herself by giving her daughter a house deposit and wasting a fortune on horses and her estranged husband's nonsense (don't even get me started on that, it's an absolutely infuriating story.)

The daughter might work for her money but she also has a life, fun, holidays, family and friends. They act like I'm so lucky I get "free money" from other people, but what has that cost me? It's cost my life - I have nothing worthwhile, no fun, no friends, no freedom and nothing to look forward to. And everyone treats me like something they found on the bottom of their shoe - I have no other use to society so I might as well be used as society's punchbag.

I try so hard to find things to live for but at moments like this I wonder why I even bother.

You came through to get me the bandage/shower boots kit. (the shower boots from the previous surgeries had started leaking after being used for months). I'm really grateful for that, thank you. I still need to buy liquid iodine, iodine patches and shoe covers (to wear in place of shoes while my feet recover.) It will add up to just over £20 but anything towards it helps. Depending on how long the healing takes this time I might need to buy extra bandages so would need more than £20 in that case. It's hard to say exactly until I'm actually in recovery, I just hoped to get enough now so I don't have to keep reposting about during recovery.

If I get my disability benefits reinstated, they are going to check my bank account. I'm not allowed to earn money, but I am allowed to receive gifts of money. If anyone is able to help with this, please write in the box that it's a gift so I can prove this.

Or someone could order and send the items to me. Or amazon gift card to order them. Literally any way of getting these items is fine.

I know there are a lot of people here in even worse situations than me, but I've got no-one to ask for help in real life.

I've had help to buy the basic bandage/showerproof kit. Thanks so much for that! I am going to need a few other things for this like waterproof shoe covers (since I won't be able to wear shoes and don't want to go outside or around in just socks on the dirty ground) and some iodine patches and liquid. If anyone could help out with an extra £20, that should cover it.

Repost of the my previous message:

Well, the foot infection has come back. They aren't even going to bother trying antibiotics and things this time since they never worked last time. I've been put forward for surgery straight away. I'm just waiting for them to get back to me with the date. I'm going to have to buy the post-surgical supplies all over again, waterproof shower boots, bandage packs, etc. The NHS doesn't pay for those things and I can't have the surgery without them. Due to my benefit appeal I can't pay for these things myself.

The items are £37 a pack and I need two packs. I might also need to buy extra bandages later depending on how long recovery takes. If the surgical wounds get infected again I will have to buy more iodine liquid and patches. So it's hard to say how much I need exactly but at least £74.

If I get my disability benefits reinstated, they are going to check my bank account. I'm not allowed to earn money, but I am allowed to receive gifts of money. If anyone is able to help with this, please write in the box that it's a gift so I can prove this.

I've decided I want to become a Druid, if I win my benefit appeal I'm going to join the Order of bards, Ovates and Druids. Their chief wrote this essay on Druidism and politics, which I thought some here might find interesting. It's leftist:

https://philipcarr-gomm.com/essay/druidry-politics/

Well, the foot infection has come back. They aren't even going to bother trying antibiotics and things this time since they never worked last time. I've been put forward for surgery straight away. I'm just waiting for them to get back to me with the date. I'm going to have to buy the post-surgical supplies all over again, waterproof shower boots, bandage packs, etc. The NHS doesn't pay for those things and I can't have the surgery without them. Due to my benefit appeal I can't pay for these things myself.

The items are £37 a pack and I need two packs. I might also need to buy extra bandages later depending on how long recovery takes. If the surgical wounds get infected again I will have to buy more iodine liquid and patches. So it's hard to say how much I need exactly but at least £74.

If I get my disability benefits reinstated, they are going to check my bank account. I'm not allowed to earn money, but I am allowed to receive gifts of money. If anyone is able to help with this, please write in the box that it's a gift so I can prove this.

We already know from the impact assessment that this new system could cost tens if not hundreds of millions of pounds making our mission to cut waiting times and rebuild our NHS harder.

They really ill make any excuse to prevent people from making their own choice. Let's just ignore the fact that if someone chooses assisted suicide, the NHS saves money on their treatment. If we don't even have the freedom to choose whether to exist, we don't have freedom at all.

In case anyone doesn't know/remember me, I'm a partially sighted stroke and thyroid cancer patient in the UK, going through a disability benefit appeal, which is why I need help to access every single thing I need. My appeal is currently estimated to be heard in January.
Due to the fact the benefit nazis will check my bank account if I win my appeal, I feel safer accepting gift cards where possible.

Currently, I need toiletries, basic things like deodorant, dental floss, hand sanitiser, shampoo, which I am totally out of. I still have a few sanitary pads and some toothpaste left but soon I will need more of those too. Someone gave me a supermarket gift card a few weeks ago, but if i use my supermarket gift card to get these things, I won't have enough money to left until the end of the month for food, so either way i have to make a post for help.

I would be grateful for any way to receive these things, whether it's having them sent to me, or an amazon gift card, which would probably be easier for whoever helps me. If anyone can help, my amazon email address is [email protected]

This site takes paypal for amazon gift cards:

https://dundle.com/gb/search/?q=amazon

This site takes crypto:

https://www.bitrefill.com/gb/en/gift-cards/amazon-uk/