‘I feel sick at the prospect of cuts to health benefits’

The Prime Minister is ready to announce deductions to spend this week on welfare this week after the Prime Minister declared the current system “unstable, unforgivable and unfair.”

It is expected that the benefits of long -term illness and disability, especially on the payment of personal freedom (PIP), can come down a lot, which can be seen as a $ 5 billion cut.

The increase in the number of long -term, health benefits have increased the total welfare bill to $ 64 billion a year. Some people say that system reform will encourage the contenders to work, or do more.

But many people fear that they will not afford to pay their bills or will not be upset that they will have to take jobs they cannot manage.

The BBC talked to several people who talked about how deductions could affect them.

56 -year -old Elison, who lives with his brother in the council’s property in Southampton, says he feels “sick” at the possibility of deductions.

He has been diagnosed with sadness, anxiety and PTSD by childhood trauma. She is also suffering from panic attacks and fear of night. Since Kovid is afraid to leave home because of “fear of germs”.

Allison has not worked since his job with the Southampton City Council in 1997, and has been claimed that it has about $ 1,700 a month to benefit PIP, important disability, and employment and auxiliary allowance (ESA).

She says she will have difficulty dealing with job pressure.

“It doesn’t want she does not want [work]”She says.” I think about it all the time.

“Living in the benefits doesn’t make me happy.”

Allison has been told that his beneficiary will continue until 2027, but she says that the possibility of cutting her after that is “very disturbing”.

The 41 -year -old Emily lives in Cruden, is autistic and struggles with time management and regulates basic tasks for her daily routine.

“My autism has stopped me from getting a job in the past,” she says.

“Sometimes in the interview I could not answer any questions.

“I was doing very little while repeating myself.

Now she is working all the time as a flight attendant and has developed a strategy to help be late, which includes waking up long ago to allow extra time before shifts.

They are aware of criticism that the contenders often receive. “I’m not a scorner,” she says.

Emily gets more than £ 400 per month in PIP payments, which are not dependent on the recipient’s income. But the money is mostly running on its regular bills, rather than professional therapy, it will help him to establish a proper normal.

Getting PIP also means that it is eligible for a disabled discount rail card, which makes the work a more affordable journey.

“It’s a big thing,” she says. “I’ll struggle to pay.”

Justin, 42, was born with a traumatic genetic condition affecting its joint.

Even as cutting or sneezing vegetables can result in minor movements. It has also developed dysitonomia, which is a state affecting its nervous system, which can make it unconscious.

Permanent pain, and other symptoms cause fatigue, but she manages to work for 14 hours a week, which helps students with special educational needs.

“For a year I couldn’t work at all. Then I started getting things at the top. I got diagnosed and medicine and I started to feel better.

“But as far as most of my doctors are concerned, they are very surprised that I work at all.”

Every month, 73 737 without financing, which helps pay for home and transport help, she says she will not be able to work.

She says, “It will be contradictory, it will not save their money.

Steve, a south London -based Steve, had to quit working after leaving him with a chronic cervical spondylosis, which affects bones and skin health and brain damage on the neck.

He is deprived of work, but he says removing its benefits does not mean that he is able to get a job.

“In my situation, I get a lot of ignorant comments … Why do I jump on a mop on Uber Eat? Whatever you usually do … it hurts. If I stand long, it hurts.”

“What I had to do? Float?”

Steve gets universal credit, as well as the benefits of incompetence, including PIP, but says it is difficult to meet its energy bills and pay for food with its income.

“My life is already below the minimum standard – it will further reduce and damage health first.”

He says encouraging people to get back to work can feel like a bully.

“When the government says ‘encouragement’, the reality is ‘danger’,” they say. “You are threatening to work again.”

Alba, 53, is an IT contractor in Dorking, which is currently working for one of the airports near London. Although they suffer from back pain after two “quite severe” motorcycle accidents, they are currently not helping any disability.

During a period of unemployment last year, when she was eating her savings, she applied. But in March he was told that he was not eligible.

“They tried their best to guess me – they were fair – and the result is that I can do something.

“It’s true – but I wanted to recognize that I was in chronic pain.”

He is concerned that if his current contract is not renewed, he may find it difficult to find a job that makes him work at home.

She says, “I couldn’t go to work every day in an office. I’m not literally.”

His current employer has been a “very helpful” in letting his work work from home, an article he spoke about the BBC.

“I’m really glad I got this job,” she says.

He added, “I don’t want to claim the benefits – that’s terrible. This is not my style.” “I don’t want to do anything at home.”