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- Mar 13, 2021
Joke's on him because the DWP requires much longer replies than that to prove disabilities, not to mention that his very obvious frequent long distance travelling (by UK and DWP standards) is on his Twitter because he can't stop prattling on about it.
I know a good deal about Personal Independence Payments and how the Department for Work and Pensions works. I would have expected Tiddy to have learned some of this during his time at MAP, but I guess not.
PIP is the successor to Disability Living Allowance and has much stricter assessment qualification than DLA did. Both benefits are available to people both in and out of work, so this isn't a handout for someone; without wanting to PL, I've known disabled people who have claimed it while working full-time because they're entitled to it to pay for extra services/aids that make their lives easier and help them to keep their jobs as a result of getting it. PIP was brought in to replace DLA, and most DLA claimants have been moved over to it by now. A lot of people lost their DLA awards in the process because the points system used is harsher, as well as it using face to face assessments by external companies with government contracts who may not specialise or understand the claimant's medical problems. In some cases, the assessors have been found to lack medical qualifications completely. Once the claimant is assessed, their case is then passed back to the DWP's decision making department, where a government employee will basically use the claim form and the assessor's report to determine how much money (if any) the claimant receives. The system is similar to the one used for Employment Support Allowance, and both have been heavily criticised for not being fit for purpose due to the number of claimants who are genuinely disabled and have their claims refused. The point of this overhaul was to reduce the number of insincere claims, but has disproportionately hit people with legitimate claims. There's plenty of reading material about this on the internet if you want to dig up more via a search on the topic, including High Court decisions against the DWP's handling of claims.
I'm not sure whether Tiddy claimed DLA back when he used MAP's services, but if he did I guess he got someone to fill his forms out for him while he sat there and let them do all the work. I guess I just assumed he got it because he kept going on about his Aspergers, same as I thought he had a legit diagnosis of it at the time. The old DLA forms were longer than PIP forms and you had to go into great detail about how the activities you're asked about are impacted by your disabilities, plus provide evidence where possible for having them. Because the DWP is less than scrupulous at times with how it makes its decisions, it's usually recommended that you have someone help you fill out the form who is a professional advisor familiar with the language and descriptors they use. While the PIP forms are shorter, they are judged a lot more harshly to weed out people who are claiming for disabilities and conditions that they don't have, or don't have proof of having. This can be frustrating for legitimate claims where there are problems with accessing diagnoses, but these are few and far in between. The system is also a bit too harsh at times with penalising people with diagnosed problems which will result in them needing to appeal decisions or go to tribunal over them, but these are in the minority. I will say that the appeal rate is extremely high, although I also understand that this can still be a very distressing process when you actually need this money to survive on or to keep your main source of income.
With Tiddy, thanks to his chronic oversharing, he's put himself in a perfect position for someone to link the DWP to his Twitter as proof that he's actually capable of travelling without assistance and over distances of 200 metres or more, regardless of him using his walking stick. That alone should be enough to lose the mobility component of PIP., especially as he frequently mentions travelling to Melton Mowbray to see his 'fiancé'. His doctors refusing to give diagnoses will work against him too as the DWP will usually request medical evidence from your GP in the event that you don't provide your own. Sometimes they request it anyway to verify that the information you've given them is correct or to ask further questions about your conditions. He says his hands are shot, but he'll post pictures of the fish he catches as well as posting on Twitter on a very regular basis. That negates any claim of his that he has problems using his hands, as other Kiwis have pointed out. Basically, I don't think his short form answers to the questions on Twitter are an attempt to throw the DWP off, I think he simply hasn't realised that his account is a whole repository of information that disproves his alleged problems (minus autism), and I think he lacks the intelligence to answer the form to a standard that will secure him another PIP award. I'd wager he got one because of an advocacy/support agency helping him with his last form, and he no longer has that support.
PIP is the successor to Disability Living Allowance and has much stricter assessment qualification than DLA did. Both benefits are available to people both in and out of work, so this isn't a handout for someone; without wanting to PL, I've known disabled people who have claimed it while working full-time because they're entitled to it to pay for extra services/aids that make their lives easier and help them to keep their jobs as a result of getting it. PIP was brought in to replace DLA, and most DLA claimants have been moved over to it by now. A lot of people lost their DLA awards in the process because the points system used is harsher, as well as it using face to face assessments by external companies with government contracts who may not specialise or understand the claimant's medical problems. In some cases, the assessors have been found to lack medical qualifications completely. Once the claimant is assessed, their case is then passed back to the DWP's decision making department, where a government employee will basically use the claim form and the assessor's report to determine how much money (if any) the claimant receives. The system is similar to the one used for Employment Support Allowance, and both have been heavily criticised for not being fit for purpose due to the number of claimants who are genuinely disabled and have their claims refused. The point of this overhaul was to reduce the number of insincere claims, but has disproportionately hit people with legitimate claims. There's plenty of reading material about this on the internet if you want to dig up more via a search on the topic, including High Court decisions against the DWP's handling of claims.
I'm not sure whether Tiddy claimed DLA back when he used MAP's services, but if he did I guess he got someone to fill his forms out for him while he sat there and let them do all the work. I guess I just assumed he got it because he kept going on about his Aspergers, same as I thought he had a legit diagnosis of it at the time. The old DLA forms were longer than PIP forms and you had to go into great detail about how the activities you're asked about are impacted by your disabilities, plus provide evidence where possible for having them. Because the DWP is less than scrupulous at times with how it makes its decisions, it's usually recommended that you have someone help you fill out the form who is a professional advisor familiar with the language and descriptors they use. While the PIP forms are shorter, they are judged a lot more harshly to weed out people who are claiming for disabilities and conditions that they don't have, or don't have proof of having. This can be frustrating for legitimate claims where there are problems with accessing diagnoses, but these are few and far in between. The system is also a bit too harsh at times with penalising people with diagnosed problems which will result in them needing to appeal decisions or go to tribunal over them, but these are in the minority. I will say that the appeal rate is extremely high, although I also understand that this can still be a very distressing process when you actually need this money to survive on or to keep your main source of income.
With Tiddy, thanks to his chronic oversharing, he's put himself in a perfect position for someone to link the DWP to his Twitter as proof that he's actually capable of travelling without assistance and over distances of 200 metres or more, regardless of him using his walking stick. That alone should be enough to lose the mobility component of PIP., especially as he frequently mentions travelling to Melton Mowbray to see his 'fiancé'. His doctors refusing to give diagnoses will work against him too as the DWP will usually request medical evidence from your GP in the event that you don't provide your own. Sometimes they request it anyway to verify that the information you've given them is correct or to ask further questions about your conditions. He says his hands are shot, but he'll post pictures of the fish he catches as well as posting on Twitter on a very regular basis. That negates any claim of his that he has problems using his hands, as other Kiwis have pointed out. Basically, I don't think his short form answers to the questions on Twitter are an attempt to throw the DWP off, I think he simply hasn't realised that his account is a whole repository of information that disproves his alleged problems (minus autism), and I think he lacks the intelligence to answer the form to a standard that will secure him another PIP award. I'd wager he got one because of an advocacy/support agency helping him with his last form, and he no longer has that support.
His woes intensify! - Archive
Seems the GIC won't approve him yeeting his balls. I would bet this is because of his lack of weight loss so they see it as a pointless endeavour as he won't put in the minimum work for them to approve the surgery, but it could also be because they don't think he's a True and Honest Troon. I'm sure there will soon be another inevitable meltdown.
