Over 65s are as likely if not more likely to need these payments as their younger counterparts. As people get older their joints and body become less able to cope with public transport especially if they have disabilities, but they also need to be able to remain independent in order to maintain their quality of life.

Children with autism need extra support to enable them to play football and participate in other sports and activities. This support isn’t available in mainstream activities. Children with autism and adhd benefit from physical activities and feeling part of a team also boosts their self esteem. Children with autism deserve the same opportunities as other kids to participate in football and other activities.

Pretty much everybody who has had the assessment has ended up with ' 0 points ', but head injury is not like usual disibility. Most people who have suffered a brain injury can walk & talk etc & come across as normal at first contact. We all have memory and concentration problems & an extreme lack of motivation, unable to cope with stress or confrontation, amongst other problems that I can't actually think of off hand, which makes us basically unemployable. It is so stressful resulting in people giving up or going into extreme depression, often resulting in the unthinkable. I myself had to leave my home in Leeds & move close to family for help & support. It took a couple of years to get things sorted & I was given over £4000 in back pay cos they realised they were wrong in their decision - 8 months later I had to go for another assessment, exactly the same results & my ESA stopped again. Unfortunately the Dr at my surgery that was a specialist in head injury & helped to get the decision reversed has left & the disibility hub in Redhill which also helped, has closed. I can't cope with things myself so have left it cos the last thing I want is to go into a depression again, which unfortunately is inevitable. Thanx to Llidl & charity shops I can still live to a bearable standard, but we are talking about living on £10 a week for food & spending a lot of time at my mum's, especially during winter because at home I rarely have the heating on, cos I simply wouldn't be able to afford it. If anything could be done to make the government aware of the problems they have caused it really would be appreciated Thanx Stacey Godsell

My wife Leanne is only 45 years old and is suffering with a multitude of life changing health issues, the one that depresses her is the liver issues which is making her body retain fluid, causing her weight to spiral out of control...unstable type 1 diabetes is making it virtually impossible to lose the weight, other health problems are not making it easy for her ie COPD, limphodema, kidney problems, IGA (no immune system) fybomyalgia etc. The council said I have to pay for a wet room to be built in our council flat as I work, over £5000 I'm having to pay for this just so my wife can bathe... I work hard, pay all our Bill's but because I work I'm penalised, it's so wrong.

I have read too many stories of assessors telling lies and ignoring things which confirm provided evidence and are in the claimants favour. I recently experienced this for myself. My assessor was rude, ignorant and her behaviour verged on abusive. This is wrong! If anybody else came into my home and treated me the way she did, I would call the police but I felt forced to comply with her because she held the keys to the support I need. I am a vulnerable person, yet the DWP has no safeguarding measures in place which protect me or other vulnerable people from abusive assessors. Also, if the DWP insist on putting ill and disabled people on trial, shouldn't they take on practices used in courts which make the process fair??

The UN committee on disability rights have asserted that the UK government have systematically failed to meet its commitments to the disabled. The outsourcing of PIP assessment constitute a significant part of that systematic failure.

This is a crucial topic that must be addressed more, this is because 1 in 5 people will have some sort of disability. There are 11 million people with disabilities in the UK and there are unfortunately only 5 disabled MP's. This is why i would like to change this and allow everyone to be represented in the UK.

It is unfair that local residents and visitors who cannot use stairs should have to make their way to other stations. We demand a lift be installed to correct this injustice.

I am a support worker and much to my shame I had not thought of this until a tenant mentioned it this week as she likes to be independent, she likes to be involved in all aspects of her life and you would think this would be an easy one. Anyone with sight difficulties would have to go around carrying a magnifying glass to see most of these dates. A simple fix would be for food manufacturers to increase the size of these labels.

My disabled son, a wheel chair user, attends the Pathways day centre by St George's church in Gravesend. My wife collected our son from Pathways Thursday afternoon, 14 Feb in order to take our son to his Hydrotherapy session at Cotton Lane, Dartford. Jill, Andrew's mum, parked in St George's yard with our son's disabled blue badge clearly displayed, but was issued with a parking ticket. No obstruction was being caused so why the ticket? The warden came out with the usual comment,"I have issued the ticket. there is nothing I can do. There are free disabled parking places in the car park opposite St Georges Church, But usually there are no parking spaces available, and non-blue badge holders use the disabled bays. but we are, in any case, unable to use the car park with a wheel chair. Trying to cross from the car park back to St George's church pushing a wheel chair is extremely dangerous. There are ramps for wheel chairs on each side of the road, but they have been very poorly designed. The angles they are at are very steep and the wheelchair can get jammed in the road as you try to push the wheel chair on to the incline. Another problem is the pavement does not blend smoothly in to the road and means you have to have several attempts to get out of the road and on to the pavement. We have had several near misses with cars speeding around the bend to access St George's ctr car park, and decided our only safe option was to park at the entrance to St Georges, and push our son in his wheelchair up through the graveyard by the Pocahontas statue. Gravesend council should sort out the disabled facilities for people using Pathways Centre. Pathways is using what was the old Gravesend tourist office and has been in the place for 14 months. What was Gravesend council thinking of when they agreed to Pathways taking over the premises, but providing no suitable parking facilities for carers to deliver and collect their children from Pathways. Perhaps Gravesend's traffic wardens need some training, including practical demonstrations of how to get a wheel chair containing an adult from the lower car park to Pathways, especially when the people doing the pushing, in all weathers, are not very healthy pensioners...... Best regards, Malcolm Jackson, Andrew Jackson's dad.

Important to all disabled drivers who are unable to access accessible parking space, adding more stress and physical pain to conditions which necessitate having easy access to a vehicle.

It's a death trap as it is!