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It’s great being able to get out and go to shops and things again, but nobody is wearing masks and multiple people literally cough and splutter all over me. They don’t even turn their heads away or cover their mouths. Just disgusting.
Oh and I have a lovely new thing to worry about. I’ve always heard that if i win my benefits case they will check the previous 6 months of my bank accounts. But now I’ve seen threads from disabled people on other sites saying they checked their accounts right from the start of the claim! The disability charity Scope told me it’s OK that some people put money in my paypal account because they said it’s a gift, but I’m not so sure, it might look suspicious, from multiple random people.
It’s infuriating that so many people think living on disability benefits is the easy choice. Constant assessments, having your payments stopped for no reason, having to beg for food, bank checks and constant worry you’ll be told you’ve done something wrong. Not to mention the endless threats from the government to make it more difficult to claim and to lower payments. What a way to live. All for the crime of getting too sick to work.
People have learned nothing from the pandemic, and kind of seemed to have regressed in caring at all about illness. It’s good to be able to get out of the house, though, even when it can cause anxiety with other people thrown into the mix.
I hope the payments aren’t used against you for your benefit appeal. It’s ludicrous to enforce such awful circumstances on the disabled for the sake of capital. What are you supposed to do when they don’t even provide you with the means to eat while this appeal process is in motion? Just ludicrous. I hope you get the benefits soon and this unnecessary stress is put behind you quickly.
Thanks. I think they just hope we die or kill ourselves. I don’t know why they don’t just legalise assisted suicide at this point.