Welfare benefits news, possible changes & constructive ‘discussion - an ongoing thread

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Okay this one I will post early - benefits will be rising by the 6.7% in April 2024 and housing allowance is no longer frozen (lha rates will be raised to the 30th percentile of local market rates)

state pension is going up 8.5% (the triple lock seems to be remaining for the time being)

poppy123456

There’s a new thread here as a sticky created by the scope team this morning. https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/112187/the-autumn-statement-2023#latest
maybe better to keep everything in one place? 

Albus_Scope

Thanks Poppy, I was just coming in to share that posts link.  Much better if we can try and keep things in one place.

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I’m not really commenting on the chancellors live speech as mentioned last night but thought I should post that one early for anyone reading this thread

im waiting for the official gov doc to be published before properly updating this thread

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Okay the official document are published - please bear with me whilst I read through - I’ll post highlight screenshots as I go

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/autumn-statement-2023

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sorry about my bad highlighting

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Quick note: it sounds like a possible ‘full consultation response’ document may be published shown that may expand on things further

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From page 81 is all the the costs/savings the gov expects to make from policy changes and new policies

i won’t post the screens as it’s too much but may list them later today if there’s interest

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Okay - that the whole autumn statement document read through (in skim read mode)

I’ll write a summary of the major points that stood out a bit later (I need a bit of a break)

I will say that we are waiting on a publication of the results of the consultation or a similar topic’ed pdf to give further info as the autumn statement was still very slim on actually detail on how all this will be done and all the changes

Ralph

Thank you

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Results from the wca constitution that ran sept-oct 2023 (thanks @Votadini for the link)
I’ll screenshot/summarise later

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/655dbd38544aea0019fb3218/work-capability-assessment-activities-and-descriptors-response.pdf

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after one read of the consultation result doc I’ve concluded I will probably need to read it several times (and chat to neurotypical family members) to fully understand it

i see a lot of comments jumping to conclusions but (and I like to think of myself as a smart person or at one with common sense reasoning skills) I’m not sure how anyone has fully digested and understood it and it’s implications fully in under an hour (I think disablity charities will take at least a day formatting their easy to understand summaries.

honestly I’m going to read it several times more before posting any of my own ‘breakdown summaries’ as I want to make sure I 100% understand what is being said