DisabledAceSocialist [comrade/them]
Partially sighted stroke and cancer patient, learning to walk again, going through months of foot surgeries. Fighting a disability benefit appeal. I won my last appeal just 2 years ago and am now going through yet another one. All I want is peaceful, painless assisted suicide.
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DisabledAceSocialist [comrade/them]@hexbear.netOPto news@hexbear.net•Inquest finds housebound disabled woman with brain cyst committed suicide because her disability benefits were wrongly stopped. Coroner "recommends" DWP compensate her family with £10K.English21·5 days agoTotally agree. But they’ll never do that because there have been thousands of wrongful deaths like this one.
DisabledAceSocialist [comrade/them]@hexbear.netOPto news@hexbear.net•Cuts to disability welfare to remain, to save the country money, while MPs award themselves pay rise.English2·17 days agoNot quickly enough for me in the UK, I would have taken it by now.
DisabledAceSocialist [comrade/them]@hexbear.netOPto news@hexbear.net•Cuts to disability welfare to remain, to save the country money, while MPs award themselves pay rise.English8·18 days agoIt would be kinder to legalise assisted suicide than let us starve to death.
DisabledAceSocialist [comrade/them]@hexbear.netOPto news@hexbear.net•Disability activist left stuck on platform after staff 'called her rude and refused to get ramp'English4·20 days agoSame here. It sucks.
DisabledAceSocialist [comrade/them]@hexbear.netOPto news@hexbear.net•British benefit system hounds more people to their deaths.English5·20 days agoThank you.
DisabledAceSocialist [comrade/them]@hexbear.netOPto news@hexbear.net•British benefit system hounds more people to their deaths.English14·20 days agoNope. I am currently going through cancer treatment, recovering from a stroke and am partially sighted. At my last assessment I got zero points, I’m going through an appeal right now. The assessor told so many lies on my form. For instance she wrote that I can see perfectly as long as I’m wearing glasses, when I told her that nothing will bring my lost vision back. She said loads of other crap too. I made a complain and guess what the DWP said? They can’t do anything because they don’t know who the assessor was. How can you not know who the assessor was? Surely there must be a record. They look after their own. They can cause countless deaths and get away with it. If people hadn’t helped me out on mutual aid here, I’d be dead too while I wait for the appeal hearing. They just don’t care. I had one of them tell me I don’t need to claim anything for my partial sightedness, I can just walk around constantly rotating my head and that will give me a full range of vision. Yes one of them actually said that.
DisabledAceSocialist [comrade/them]@hexbear.netOPto news@hexbear.net•Disabled, heavily medicated, grieving, confused woman convicted of not paying TV license in fast-track court.English1·2 months agoI know there’s that saying “Don’t let injustice sadden you, let it radicalise you,” but this world is so completely unjust and there is such an overwhelming amount of awfulness that I feel completely beaten down by it.
And they aren’t even required to pay it, it’s just a recommendation.