Personal Independence Payments (PIP)

dont go into it with any expectations and it wont be traumatising.... infact it shouldnt be traumatising at all, the only thing traumatising would be being granted it, then it being reviewed later and them saying actually you dont fit the requirements for it and then being accused of fraud later down the line.. .which can happen, and that will be traumatising lol

also some landlords like benefit claimants as its more assured money... sure it can be late, but it always comes... a person with job may lose job then refuse to pay... the job center never refuses to pay, its guarunteed secure money for the landlord.

Caelus said:

it shouldnt be traumatising at all

(badly named emoticon, I mean laughing and crying at the same time)

Of course it is traumatising and meant to be, to put people off trying to get money. It is brutal, demeaning and cruel. I am surprised and disappointed it has not been challenged more in the courts, but the process is so life-sapping that by the time one comes out the other end, one is so chewed up one has no energy to sue them.

I am physically disabled as well as autistic and I had been awarded DLA for life, so of course I felt entitled to it going in, and I did get it, but the process is truly vile, and now I am having to go through it all again to renew. It forces you to spend hours, days, weeks, thinking about all the things you can't do and writing those in a very pathologising manner quite the opposite of how therapists tell you to try and be positive about things. I dread to consider how many people must have been driven to suicide over it. Then they are not on your side trying to help, they are not believing you because they assume people exaggerate or lie (which is extra hard when one is naturally very truthful, and many of us autists have a need for exact precise accuracy so do not want to lie or even exaggerate) plus they twist your words and twist their own words to make things mean whatever is necessary to deny people help they need.

All kinds of people with very visible and provable disabilities get it denied or removed all the time and have to go through tribunal to get it, which is usually successful, which must be costing the taxpayer more than if they were just less evil in the first place. Systems which find out true fakes would be much more appropriate than bullying genuine claimants.

TL:DR to the original poster, is is very traumatising. Don't bother unless you really need it, but even then be prepared for it to be utterly vile.

Caelus said:

it shouldnt be traumatising at all

(badly named emoticon, I mean laughing and crying at the same time)

Of course it is traumatising and meant to be, to put people off trying to get money. It is brutal, demeaning and cruel. I am surprised and disappointed it has not been challenged more in the courts, but the process is so life-sapping that by the time one comes out the other end, one is so chewed up one has no energy to sue them.

I am physically disabled as well as autistic and I had been awarded DLA for life, so of course I felt entitled to it going in, and I did get it, but the process is truly vile, and now I am having to go through it all again to renew. It forces you to spend hours, days, weeks, thinking about all the things you can't do and writing those in a very pathologising manner quite the opposite of how therapists tell you to try and be positive about things. I dread to consider how many people must have been driven to suicide over it. Then they are not on your side trying to help, they are not believing you because they assume people exaggerate or lie (which is extra hard when one is naturally very truthful, and many of us autists have a need for exact precise accuracy so do not want to lie or even exaggerate) plus they twist your words and twist their own words to make things mean whatever is necessary to deny people help they need.

All kinds of people with very visible and provable disabilities get it denied or removed all the time and have to go through tribunal to get it, which is usually successful, which must be costing the taxpayer more than if they were just less evil in the first place. Systems which find out true fakes would be much more appropriate than bullying genuine claimants.

TL:DR to the original poster, is is very traumatising. Don't bother unless you really need it, but even then be prepared for it to be utterly vile.

hmmm couldnt you have a document saved with all the list of things you cant do and just kinda use it every single time? that way you only thought about it once and written it once and you just use the same document all the time?