Well, I finally got my PIP form sent away, thanks to the superb assistance of the Macmillan support people in Leicester, who have been, as you might expect, truly amazing. They made a stressful thing into something I was able to handle. Not fun, but I am currently a whole order of magnitude calmer than if I had to do it myself.
Now we wait... and wait... and wait...
I have also been informed that I am probably owed anything up to six months back benefit from Universal Credit. When I started on it, I was told not to send a sick note, and everything was sorted. This means I am getting the medical elements as well as the base UC, right? Otherwise, I would have been put into the waiting list for assessment within thirteen weeks.
Neither of these things happened. They only asked for a sick note a month or so ago, and said I was now in that thirteen week assessment process.
So, all those months between November and April, I wasn't being given the additional benefit money, and I wasn't being sent for assessment, either. I was in some sort of limbo. I need to ask what the heck was going on. Right now, I can't pay all my utility bills as my income is so low on UC. I've applied for a Macmillan grant, and been told it is all being sorted, but I've been waiting for weeks without any sign of it turning up. I am, understandable, stressed as can be about this.
I need a holiday. *8-P
R.
