Comment on Liverpool parade crash victim refused PIP despite life-changing injuries

BagOfHeavyStones@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Armand1@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  While I get the joke, I think it’s a little insensitive.

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  • Railcar8095@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Would have helped to have the acronym explained in the summary.

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  • BagOfHeavyStones@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s fair.

    I speed read the article but never did it define what PIP was.

    I guess it’s similar to the NDIS in Australia - National Disability Insurance Scheme.

    Joke was appealing to the nerdy nature of the Fediverse, but since it’s majority down voted, I’ll democratically delete it.

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    • Armand1@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Thank you for taking the feedback 🙂. Yeah sorry I didn’t realise PIP was not explained. As others have said it’s Personal Independence Payment and it’s basically an extra allowance of benefits for disabled people to account for the extra costs they experience in their lives.

      At the moment it’s very hard to get and many mental health conditions have recently been excluded by the (Forced) Labour government to “get people back to work”, even though that doesn’t make any sense.

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      • Drusas@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        an extra allowance of benefits for disabled people to account for the extra costs they experience in their lives.

        Wow. Here in the US, the average person isn't even aware that being disabled is more expensive than being able-bodied, so I'm sure it goes without saying that our government doed not even attempt to help out with those extra expenses.

        Still awful that they make people in the UK jump through hoops to access that help, of course.

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    • makingrain@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You have more upvotes now. Please reinstate it.

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    • scutiger@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I don’t know if it was later updated, but the first paragraph of the article defines the initialism.

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