The official 2024 budget discussion.
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Whats business as usual mean oh get me out of here anywhere away from all of this sorry venting
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https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-statements/detail/2024-11-12/hcws205
I'm afraid I just blue myself
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So when moved onto uc they want people to try work for 6 months and if doesn't work out they say you can go back on health benefit by taking out substantial risk will push thousands into work they said only applys in exceptional circumstances and seems to be aiming at MH unless severe that's what I've read seems parts of it already happening
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I had to comment, was going to give myself a break but this is so stupid. The dwp can't cope with the small managed migration so how can they cope with all this rush by Dec next year. They asking people for fit notes which is wrong. The back log for my Esa 50 form is 11 months . The message is that they will contact you. And now they doing rushing uc . Why don't they put it back until 28. Timms is useless, he admits its flawed but he not standing up for the disabled. Surely again the disability organisation should put forward a halt until its fixed. They be opening up the workhouses next.
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And what does back to business as usual ? Thier saying by December 25 then March 26 ??
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I read both dates before. Timms is a absolute joke. How is he helping us.
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Nothing I feel more fearful under labour and that's saying something
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Or getting us to do a community service type of work
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It's the unknown with them, they don't think things through and go on half measures. Not thinking or caring how it will impact people. Look at the pensioners, Farmers, and students.
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To my point of view , he wants us back in the EU . He wants us to rely on foreign imports for food. That's why he's bankrupting the farmers. I don't remember the labour government before Blair. But he's going down the same path I was told.
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Why don't they just concentrate on getting one thing finished before starting another. So many people waiting still to move from DLA to PIP and I imagine most of those would be better off on PIP.
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They should do , leave moving esa to UC back to 28 ,29. They still sending esa renewal forms out . Yet I'm waiting 11 months for mine to be done. No wonder they make mistakes . They aren't trained they have no feelings and they will not understand our complex health conditions. Just use a checklist .
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Yes thier really ramping up the pressure so hard it to be I know I shouldn't engage I feel more oppressed vulnerable under labour never thought that would be possible me personally I cannot see any good they have done
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it's the DWP who have never ONCE hit a target ever, who haven't managed to complete DLA to PIP in 10 years!
there's 943,000 approx to move across that's a crazy 2,000 ish a day, it's absolutely not going to happen in even double that ridiculous timeframe.
from past dwp bull in a china shop behaviour this is what will happen.
in February they'll post out 63,000 letters, by March they'll have ballsed up at least 40% of them, in March they'll post out a further 63,000 and by April they will have caused such a backlog and loss of staff through that absolutely mad target that it will be paused for months or booted back to 2028.
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Oh if they put back would be a dream I was happy when I heard Stephen timms but what a let down he's been hope your well
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I defended him originally but I now believe as others have said he's just another waste of space.
I'm ok thanks, hope you are X
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I agree I'm good thanks wide awake ⏰️ x
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in my short life i have yet to meet a poor farmer only bad business decisions now if the government stopped all the subsidies paid to them ie compensation for tb reactors the hedge cutting blah blah endless list subsidies farmers may address there own problems and rectify them
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I've had a similar wait Andi, sent mine in April, only to be told by someone from Basildon (doing the fraud sweep of us all) that it hadn't been returned in time. Very luckily I'd sent it signed on delivery + knew that wasn't right. Looked like they were going to slash my benefits and in the end I tracked down the assessment company + phoned them up. They gave me some rubbish about it being returned late, wouldn't take anything I said as evidence + said they'd notify DWP directly to cancel my LCW benefit (I still had it as pushed onto UC from ESA). I immediately made a complaint to UC + very luckily complaints office took up my case + stopped the cancellation of benefits. Still waiting for a decision on the complaint + the health assessment. But complaints office told me the assessment is taken by a number of private companies, Maximus + Serco being 2 of them, your health questionnaire is passed around between them all, sometimes gets lost + then recorded as not having returned your form in time, or not returned at all, + you get taken off the benefit! Unbelievable. I'd advise everyone waiting for a long time to check up, make sure they haven't done the same to you. I put the assessment center's address (on the top of the letter that came with the WCA form) into google + found the phone num to ring. I'll put another thread up warning everyone returning these forms, you must send them signed on delivery or you don't have a leg to stand on if they say it arrived late.
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After my last pip interrogation I collapsed, and for months after was paranoid, I swore my house was bugged. The "assessor" was a v junior nurse, she would not listen to a word, she replied back each time with her slant on my answers, if I said ten feet she'd reply "so ten meters". I corrected her so many times.. she asked if I used my mobile to call my mum,I said she's here every day I've no need to, I rarely if ever use it, as my sister sees to everything. She replied "Well, your speaking to me now".
Now where the heck do you go with that nonsense.? I was really getting more and more annoyed. I thought "you are deliberately being obtuse."
Almost two hrs later I was exhausted, frazzled, had one mother of a migraine, and the panic and paranoia were immeasurable.
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