Turning on the lights is a luxury in my family. These benefit changes will push us even closer to the edge | Brian

R.It runs to Today’s announcement One of the disabled disability discounts was annoying, which makes me feel that there is a devastating battle in order to survive. It seems likely that the disabled people and those who cannot work further will be pushed to hardship.

I am one father and I get personal independence payments (PIP). I suffer from mental health problems and I have been diagnosed with autism at the end of the roaming epidemic. I also receive global credit, and I get a limited ability to work in the work, which, as we know now, will be cut on new demands and freezing for the current conservatives like me. As inflation continues, freezing means that my income decreases and that I have difficulty meeting their needs. I already live on the brink of existence with the amount of money that I have to stay after paying unavoidable expenses. Every day it represents a new challenge – not to know the food I can buy, and it is also more expensive in local stores that I have to use because I cannot travel to large supermarkets.

In our family, there is no birthday or birthdays, there are no enjoyable days or sometimes ready -made meals, and there are no newspapers, magazines, any TV or flow subscriptions. If it is not an absolute necessity for survival, we cannot even think about spending on it. Each one -cost penny has increased recently, from food bills to medicine or facilities, is a penny that must be found from another place.

But after years of reducing it, there is no way, I will be able to lower anything else if the proposed changes in the advantages of disability persists. If exhaustion Is it ready to reduce social security, can there be more? The uncertainty about the future and what awaits us is waiting for me to suffer from a lot of anxiety that I am barely able to focus on living. I spend most of my time worrying about how we survived.

Things were like this for a while. During the epidemic, living on a basic income, I could not afford daily costs such as school meals, school uniforms, home bills, and wide range. I could not replace a lot of my daughter’s school uniforms throughout the high school, and at the beginning of the closure we did not have an internet connection at home – which is necessary to teach my daughter. Widter cost coverage means making huge sacrifices. Since then, it was forced to stop heating at home, and has greatly reduced the amount of electricity that we use by not turning on the lights unless this is very necessary and my psychological restriction to one cup of coffee every morning.

My health, physically and mentally, has worsened over the years because I neglected myself to make sure that my daughter is as interested in as possible. The diet is a very important part of my health problems, but fresh, healthy and nutritious food is more expensive to buy, leaving me in a course of health and poverty.

Changes in benefits and Discounts were announced today Another kick in the teeth will be for many, including me. I feel comfortable because freezing to PIP payments that I expected was not announced. But the changes that have been confirmed are still very dangerous. These ads will pay the levels of stress and anxiety in people, which increases the poor health issues for those who need to claim. Tightening eligibility to file the claim will not do anything positive to help the needy.

I am concerned about Changes in the evaluation processAnd that there will be a great delay in the evaluation of PIP people, which makes people who are evaluated incorrectly due to fully trained employees and medical residents who can understand how to properly affect physical and mental health issues in different ways. There is already a lack of qualified support workers and coaches to spend the time to evaluate people in a way that does not make the demands feel as if they do not deserve the help and support they need with respect and dignity.

I was one of a group of parents who lived in poverty who met with government members in Downing Street last year to pay for changes to this broken system. I am now concerned about ignoring our appeals to change. the government You should help To support persons with disabilities and those who live on low income, as he promised in the period leading up to the last elections. There should be other ways to reduce government costs.

Today’s measures will take many years, leaving those who claim deficit subsidies with more uncertainty about their future and how they will be able to stay safe. It is already difficult to understand the system and negotiation. But today’s advertisements simply make things more strict for everyone at a time when they need help more than others.

• Brian participates in Changing factsCooperating between nearly 200 parents and care service providers on low income, researchers at the University of York and the poverty group for children