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Andi66
Andi66 Online Community Member Posts: 973 Championing
edited November 2024 in Current affairs

I heard on TV that the white paper being published next week is that true ? I've seen a easy to read one online but is that a old one. Of course the talk tv were saying the cost and how many where on pip etc and out of work

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  • JonnycJonny
    JonnycJonny Scope Member Posts: 253 Empowering

    As far as I am aware there has been no exact date announcement - all we know is that it is 'imminent'.

  • judie
    judie Online Community Member Posts: 335 Empowering

    Tuesday apparently

  • JonnycJonny
    JonnycJonny Scope Member Posts: 253 Empowering

    Tuesday it is then

  • Andi66
    Andi66 Online Community Member Posts: 973 Championing

    Of course they doing it before Christmas, scrooge and Grinch comes to mind. So while they sitting there stuffing there faces and being happy, we probably be too worried to celebrate

  • Andi66
    Andi66 Online Community Member Posts: 973 Championing

    Is it going to be on the parliament channel about it ?

  • Andi66
    Andi66 Online Community Member Posts: 973 Championing

    So does this make it what they intend to do. Or does it have to go through parliament

  • Andi66
    Andi66 Online Community Member Posts: 973 Championing

    Oh ok , hopefully nothing horrible will go through, there already in hot water with what they have done so far

  • Andi66
    Andi66 Online Community Member Posts: 973 Championing

    This was in the daily mail today

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14118861/Keir-Starmer-benefits-welfare-country-working.html?ico=article_preview_xp_mobile

  • Jimm_Alumni
    Jimm_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 5,713 Championing

    I do not personally like this rhetoric. The only main policy change I've seen so far that I thought might be interesting/good is closer work of NHS/medical staff in the jobcentre. Decision makers are not health professionals and it is often peoples health that is stopping them from finding work. Whether because of the condition making job searching/working difficult to impossible or, as can often be the case, employers not willing to provide proper reasonable adjustments. There is a government bill that does make reasonable adjustments more difficult to refuse at least, but certainly a lot more can be done.

    I have hope that one specific thing might improve things, but still have to wait and see what the actual proposals are.

  • JasonRA
    JasonRA Online Community Member Posts: 297 Championing

    Alan Milburn and Liz Kendall did something in Barnsley not so long ago which is possibly going to lay the foundations of this White Paper.

    25th July 2024

    https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/fresh-dwp-fears-after-kendall-helps-launch-report-that-calls-for-duty-to-engage-and-cuts-to-disability-benefits/

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