Recent talks from Labour government have suggested cuts and restrictions to claimant’s with Mental Health Needs. Any mental health condition that<br />impacts the quality of life is currently classed as a disability if it lasts longer than 12 months. Access to PIP allows many of us to seek and stay in employment. I currently work part time due to my mental health condition. Working part time allows me to stay in work, whilst also undergoing treatment to keep myself safe and well. I could not survive without the support of PIP. I know this is the case for many others. PIP helps to keep people employed and helps with the costs associated with having additional needs. To scrutinise peoples access to PIP due to having mental health needs is discrimination. The discourse around this topic and proposed cuts shows a massive lack of information and understanding of complex mental health needs and must be stopped. 

Keep PIP available for people with Mental Health Needs 

This is a disgrace . Not the change I voted for. Labour no longer exists. Targeting the most vulnerable in society is vile.

Level 3 Change Maker

I have been a life long Labour supporter and member, but no longer! I feel utterly betrayed PIP is the benefit that has the lowest incidence of fraud of any benefit, it is also incredibly hard to qualify for. Without it I will find my life even more difficult and expensive than an able bodied person I am absolutely sickened by their attack on the disabled and the way they have demonised people claiming disability benefits as work shy or fakers. I will never vote for Labour again.

Level 1 Change Maker

Tax the rich! I am physically disabled but those who are mentally disabled are still disabled!! How DARE they even propose this?? Pip is for disabled people to have a chance at some sort of normality.

What astounds me with what they have done is they’ve looked at where people score low on individual descriptors and made a decision that if they make it harder for you to get any entitlement from them it will save them money. That’s nothing to do with how people are that’s just maths to save money if you score 3 for example on all those descriptors obviously you’re in need of help but you won’t get any because you haven’t scored 4 on one of them. They’ve not looked at people as people they’ve just done a calculation.

Level 2 Change Maker

People with Mental disabilities are still disabled this is discrimination at its finest

Retired

Mental disability and conditions are a disability and should not be targeted.

I'm an ex-veteran who served Queen & Country with serious mental health issues, this is how you behave towards the disabled with life-changing disabilities whether Physical or Mental Health you treat the disabled with cruelty & disdain shame on you there's a saying There but for the grace of GOD, Go I

I have chronic paranoid schizophrenia , I was institutionalised for life in 1988, I spent 20 years in psychiatric care , then was discharged to live on the streets . I am also physically disabled and have sleep apnoea and suffered multiple strokes and also have a heart condition . I scored zero points on each of my pip claims since it migrated over from dla, despite submitting a wealth of supporting medical evidence . Pip is already a horrendously difficult benefit to claim successfully , these cuts will force many more like myself into poverty . This labour government are vile and have launched a full scale assault upon the most vulnerable people in society , purely because we are easy targets .