The official 2024 budget discussion.
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Is this legal under current legislation?
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Here..I believe they will target new claimants..reassessment or if you report a change..the descriptors being removed ate listed in the article
https://www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2024/10/30/dwp-wca-changes-autumn-budget/
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I hope not
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Hi Andii,
We fight it any way we can Andii, we've an uphill struggle as a large number of people are convinced now that a lot of us are skivers. They don't understand what it means to be disabled and how it affects you. Notice even Labour are using this trick, Reeves was saying the budget was for the "strivers", a hark back to Osborne's speech on "strivers not the skivers".
So we need to change public opinion. How? Get news coverage on TV and in the press. An army of us on Twitter. Get involved in campaign groups like Disability Rights. We could start petitions (best if headed by someone like Scope rather than individuals). Lobby sympathetic celebrities, and most effective of all, stage sit-ins outside Downing Street.
When public opinion swings behind us, they'll back down. It's a long haul I know, but I think our only chance… They've shown how hard they can be with the warm homes allowance. They won't back down once they've done it. So Scope, what's first action?
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Yep they plan to implement the Tory "reforms" in full
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Don't know if anyone has posted about this:
The Big Issue article on bank accounts
https://www.bigissue.com/news/social-justice/dwp-bank-accounts-benefit-fraud-crackdown/
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Not sure you're right Votadini but I hope so! How I read it was they're planning to knock existing claimants off the disability register when their medical assessments come up for renewal, because many of the descriptors now used will no longer be valid:
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Yes very likely they'll do this for LWCRA but many of us have been downgraded to LCW (still expected to do work related activity even though too disabled to work). I suspect those of us with just LCW will still be reassessed under the new medical assessment. I think it's something like only 10% of disabled are recognised as LCWRA (but correct me if I'm wrong)
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White paper will come out in the spring apparently, so nothing will change before then.
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I read somewhere the last couple of days they're planning to make savings by removing somewhere like 450,000 disabled off the additional disability benefits, by the end of this parliament (ie by 2028)
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Dead right Meg, good points
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how often are people assessed thought Lcwra was a long term benefit? People been on it years that’s right anyone ? Just interested to see how many of you on this benefit and for how long you have been on it?
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I haven't had a assessment for 8 years before that it's was every 2 years ,but recently had the dreaded ESA50 form 😢
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So I have fill in my ESA 50 reassessment recently, and most of my points are from want there getting rid of, so do you think when I am assessed in the coming months, they will use the new system ? If so I screwed 😢
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They have a back log, I sent mine back in Jan , still waiting to hear the outcome. Some sent back Dec still waiting
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God I hope not,
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I thought people on LWCRA weren't being reassessed anymore?
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I am sure they have to use the old criteria...to change the descriptors they need Legislation..I just researched this..hopefully you'll be fine
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Thank you 👍
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That's not what the current Government has said.
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