Changes to pip descriptors to make it harder to get

crazy12

seeing the recent media coverage regarding Liz Kendal and the labour goverment needing or wanting to save 5 billion from the benefits bill I understand after reading into it the bulk of it would come from not raising benefits inline with the 1.7% uplift not fair but something we have to deal with but what I am wondering the media are saying the rest do it will come to be saved by changing discriptors meaning some people will get a smaller award or even nothing what I wanted to know is I have a renewal back in September I filled it in and sent it off my award ends in April already had 1year extension due to the backlog of pip renewals (nothing new ) I wanted to know if they announce they are changing the descriptors Tomorow will i have to fill out another form or would i be assessed on the current discriptors and then on my next renewal that’s when I would see the changed discriptors ?

luvpink

https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/130823/changes-to-pip-descriptors-to-make-it-harder-to-get

Hi and welcome to the community.

The 1.7% rise stands for this year.

I am not aware of any announcement regarding benefit reforms being made tomorrow but there mat be one on Wednesday and an official government announcement is due on 26th March.

crazy12

oh I do apologise I must have miss heard the day on itv news I understand if they are changing the discriptors it will take quite a while for the legislation ect to actually come into force am I correct in thinking that

luvpink

https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/994403#Comment_994403

Hi

Please don't apologise.

We are all here to try and support each other.

We will know more about descriptors etc when an official announcement is made soon.

tomwalker

https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/130823/changes-to-pip-descriptors-to-make-it-harder-to-get

TThey Are due to make an announcement before the Green Paper on 25th...I believe the major savings have to come from cutting..not the 1.7%...the policy is supposed to target disabled to try and get them to work by offering support...although I believe it will be changing the descriptors so less people get it...also likely I think they'll try and dilute or just take the ESA away in some form...I believe they see a pot of money they can raid...note tge build up in s are stories..People taking the mikey..life on benefits..earn more on benefits than working....same tripe the Tories would come out with.its an attempt to soften the public as they pick the pockets of sick people

YogiBear

Labour MP Neil Ducan-Jordan said on Newsnight that there is going to be a statement on Wednesday where we're going to get more detail on what's happening.

tomwalker

Qhatever the plans there doesn't seem to have been consultations with disabled people so far..so much for 'putting disabled people at the heart of all that we will do'

Andi66

https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/994413#Comment_994413

Have you heard about Esa bring taken away or dilated? A lot of us are still on it , so speculation isn't helpful, we are worried as it is

Catherine21

https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/994444#Comment_994444

This is unforgivable the way we have been treated is like @@@ @ on thier shoes since 2023 we have been tortured slowly day in day out oh and not forgetting last 14 years labour coming in harder all part of the agenda

Yani09

Surely, any reduction in benefit will create job losses.. those that work to administer.

Then more people needing support in medical settings.. abandoned and made destitute.

What will the savings actually amount to?

It always riles people up, get the work shy into work.. they are the reason for your problems…

Wilful ignorance of people that are genuinely ill or disabled in the guise of serving the able workers.

Let us all blame the sick and disabled, meanwhile able bodied men being funded in hotels at the public’s expense. Meanwhile let us ignore the foreign aid bill. Meanwhile..

Shame on the Country that targets their vulnerable people..shame on the country that fails to be charitable to their own ill and disabled.

Your health is your wealth.

I always felt blessed that I had a government that assisted me in my darkest hour..

Oh, let us hope that this is refused and the genuine not made destitute.