Big changes are coming to Incapacity Benefit and if you've been on it for a long time you can expect to be re-assessed to tougher new standards. It's thought this will affect many long-term HIV+ people for whom the original prognosis was bleak but now isn't.
It's a lot more complicated than all that of course and the Terrence Higgins Trust has let us know they're on hand to help - just visit www.tht.org.uk/benefits. They can talk you through the new test, explain the implications of taking some work will have on your existing benefits and so on.
