Invisible

Invisible & wasting away #LongCovid

[Invisible @invisiblewaster]

Any #Veterans or #Veteran organisations in #Cumbria able to offer some support to ex WRAC alone in rural area & in difficult circs? No family. Unable to access any other support.
Even just some online contact & help to make a plan would be good.

[Invisible @invisiblewaster]

@1goodtern The vast majority of the population were always only ever going to be seen as collateral damage while those who could afford to protect themselves or simply didnt care partied & continued their corrupt personal money making schemes.

[Invisible @invisiblewaster]

@darren140776601 @PaulBrandITV @LBC My disability won't disappear in a year. This deal will not protect me or many other disabled people whose conditions will worsen with time & age.
It will not protect anyone with same disabilities as me who claims in the future.

[Invisible @invisiblewaster]

@Jgrau99 @PaulBrandITV @LBC Have you spoken to any disabled people in receipt of PIP about this? Particularly PIP claimants who have no support?
The word amongst disabled PIP claimants is that this creates a 2 tier unfair system & not acceptable.

[Joseph Rowntree Foundation @jrf_uk]

People are unaware of high care costs, the cost of caring yourself, or long waiting lists.

Most of us hope the social care system will be there for us in times of need. But the system we have currently is inadequate.

Our latest analysis has found a ‘care expectation gap’ 🔽 1/4

[Dmdav @Dmdav1]

@likesretirement @THemingford DWP very quietly published a series of damning disability benefits related reports at 4pm on Friday 2 May, on the eve of a bank holiday and on a day when the news was dominated by the results of the local elections held the day before.

[Revolution Breeze @SueJonesSays]

Amnesty report finds UK's cruel benefits system is ruining lives and violating Human Rights. Shame on Starmer's New Right Labour party https://t.co/i29tPo3WlA

[Dmdav @Dmdav1]

DWP buried damning reports showing work coaches unable to help disabled claimants ‘Ironically, one of the ways work coaches improved their customers lives was by “helping with claims for Personal Independence Payment’ https://t.co/L5uRxhxfZX

[Joseph Rowntree Foundation @jrf_uk]

New @ONS figures show job vacancies have fallen by 42,000 between Feb and April 📉

Disabled people who are able to work already find it more difficult to find suitable work that accommodates their needs.

The fall exposes the need to rethink plans to cut disability benefits. 1/2

[Invisible @invisiblewaster]

@philedsphil @paullewismoney @SocialM85897396 What about ppl like me? "foreign born" to British parents (a Geordie & a Scouser), UK overseas birth cert, UK passport, English 1st language, resident in UK since age 5 months. Where do I belong if "foreign born" not welcome in UK?

[Recovery in the Bin @RITB_]

FOI
From this 1.66M will get no PIP.

[Dr Jay Watts @Shrink_at_Large]

There is no doubt that the DWP worsens and causes mental illness. The best thing Labour could do for the nation’s mental health is have a kind, stable social security system with help to work for those for whom this is possible in a service outside the DWP and sanctions.

[Invisible @invisiblewaster]

@adamfare1996 DWP - "You will get a payment of £xxxx for Transitional Protection since July 2023 due to a recalculation"
Me - great ty, but you mean you've been underpaying me by £80/month & its taken you 21 months to notice & sort it out without even saying the words "error" or "sorry"

[David__Osland @David__Osland]

If Thames Water is doing so badly that it needs to borrow three billion quid at credit card interest rates just to keep going, what's the justification for the chief exec's £15k pay rise?

[Invisible @invisiblewaster]

@BladeoftheS Housing benefit is not a decent benefit - almost impossible to find private rentals within housing benefit/housing allowance, almost non existent. So the difference has to be made up from UC/ other benefits which already don't even cover living costs.

[Invisible @invisiblewaster]

@endlibtyranny @MartinSLewis Its also terrible news for those of us singletons who aren't lucky enough to have families or be well or young enough to be "hard working". It's not just "hard working families" who suffer, there's lots of others just as badly affected if not more so.

[Invisible @invisiblewaster]

@UnwantedGuest3 @j_b_kennedy Just followed you on Blue sky under a different name. Just had my 4 yr LC anniversary last month & my life is in tatters, almost every single health professional has labelled it as mental health despite the CF, muscle wastage, weight loss, new lung problems. palpitations etc.

[Invisible @invisiblewaster]

@markbikerman @AngelaRayner "Hotel" usually means months in cheap B&B room for whole families, miles from work, schools. How do they feed themselves? How can kids thrive?
Spare cash spent on storage for possessions.
Homes are needed.
"Hotels" shd be emergency solution for couple of nights not long term.

[MSM Monitor @msm_monitor]

In 2019 Angela Rayner said the WASPI women had their pensions stolen and that Labour "will compensate them". It's "their money". Does Rayner still believe this?

[Richard Sanders @PulaRJS]

The BBC took 12 hours to report Amnesty's denunciation of genocide in Gaza.

The story has now disappeared entirely from the BBC's main news page.

https://t.co/wb8WMxR6T9