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Originally Posted by nomadking
The pdf version of the guide is date 8th May 2018, That is fairly current.
ESA & PIP are not designed to pay off people's mortgages.
Not sure if additional medical evidence is meant to be sent direct to Maximus and not the DWP, if it's not included in the original application. It should've been handed over at the assessment itself, as long it isn't general medical info.
The appeal process is still yet to come and possibly the reconsideration stage before that.
So what was he living on during that time?
So after that time he possibly(depending on recovery) wouldn't be eligible for any extra money anyway.
Why was he claiming in Manchester, when living in Scotland? When there is a shifting situation, complications are bound to arise.
It takes time to issue a notice to quit, never mine an eviction, so I'm not totally convinced about those cases.
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As already explained, PIP is intended to help with personal care and getting out and about, but claimants are free to spend it in any way they wish. ESA is intended to help with day to day living expenses, of which mortgage payments are certainly so. Obviously, if people are having to use money intended for day to day living expenses, personal care and mobility costs to pay their mortgage (or anything else they might need), they are having to do without the things that they need within these areas.
How else do you expect disabled people to keep a roof over their heads since the Tories started chipping away the help available for mortgage interest payments? It started under Thatcher and was completed on 6/4/18 when it fully became a loan to be repaid with interest.
Home ownership was encouraged, then MIRAS was abolished and benefits to help with mortgage interest payments were reduced to nil.
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Originally Posted by Mr K
Every claimant must be a scrounger in your book (apart from yourself of course), and the DWP never get anything wrong.... 70% of PIP appeals being successful say otherwise.
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Exactly; his responses really are extraordinary.
Many people of all political colours have various views about various Governments and their welfare policies, but this is most bizzare. I've spoken to various people (in both a professional and personal capacity) across the political spectrum (including a Tory MP) and even he was critical about parts of the system that we have today.