I am so scared about everything the new British government is saying about changes to disability benefits. Apparently almost everyone will be expected to look for work except “the most serious cases.” Well, we all know they will consider almost nobody a serious case. I’m having cancer treatment, recovering from a stroke, partially sighted and recently had foot surgery and another foot surgery coming up (and these are just the main things, I have other issues too) and yet I still get given zero points on my assessments and forced to go through appeals. Left with no income in the meantime, hence begging for food on here. So I know I won’t be considered a “most serious case” exempt from looking for work. I mean, multiple doctors have written letters to the DWP saying I’m totally unfit for any type of work and need help with basic things, yet the DWP always finds me fit for work and I have to appeal. With these new rules, it will be impossible for me to survive. Not only will they find me fit for work, which I can’t do, they are threatening to cut disability benefits by over £400 a month. They are already so low it’s a struggle to survive. But at least when in receipt of benefits I can just about afford rent, utilities and food. No extras, my clothes are absolute rags with actual holes in them as I haven’t been able to buy new ones in years, and no enjoyments in life, not even something as simple as renting a film off amazon as there’s no extra money for that, so life is boring, miserable and pointless anyway. But at least I could keep a roof over my head, and when not going through an appeal as I am now, buy food. Even when going through an appeal as now at least I always had the hope of winning, being able to pay off the debts accrued during the appeal, and be OK for a couple more years before going through it all again. But now, my situation will literally be incompatible with life. I won’t be paid enough to survive on, and I’ll be forced into work that I’m unable to do. I truly see no way out of this but suicide. And even that is difficult, being disabled and having the easier methods made illegal. There are so many other ways the government could save money but they choose to make the most vulnerable people’s lives impossible to continue. And they don’t even have the decency to legalise assisted suicide to make it a bit less painful.