Upcoming changes to benefits
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"The detail of the plans will be unveiled next week by Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall"
They are determined to push this 😥
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I will be reassessed for PIP next year. 😭
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When Ed Miliband was Leader he gave a speech about just meeting someone and "clearly able to work", at the time his comments were nothing short of disgusting, then the Tories
focused every speech on "hard working people" then "working people" and Labour use every single speech to say the same, Does this mean non hardworking/working people dont bother voting Labour again?
what Reeves wants will never happen not because of the fiscal rules they cannot talk #brexit
and the impact that's having will mean the level of Growth she needs the only avenue is savage cuts, they have learned nothing from 2010 when the Condems decided on the same policies.
Not once have they said in speeches about the upcoming cuts long covid and the NHS
are clearly main factors in increased claims, Its all spun as people either unable to work
owing to not enough support or people not wanting to work owing to a bit of "stress"
her comments about taking the mickey tell us exactly her views.
They have a duty of care to make sure EVERY single speech they keep telling people there will be sick/disabled people who can never work, need the support PIP gives because the alternative is local councils imploding and these people being in terrible trouble.
Sounds Dramatic at the moment but unless MP's learn the lessons from 2010 and tell the Govt they cant support these cuts then the same outcome awaits many of them.
You cannot call these "reforms" when they key objectives are savings, they are all acting so superior over assisted dying bill. what on earth is this level of stress doing to people already with huge issues?
Imagine a Minister catching a tummy bug the normal meds not working do they go ahead give that speech and soil themselves live on TV or do they cancel? I think we all know
utterly shameful and flies in the face of everything Labour was created.
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Hi Meg it's taken me 40 years to get a diagnosis and I knew something like this was going to happen so last year I made the decision to ask the psychiatrist to put my diagnosis on my GPs medical records , I have suffered anxiety and depression all my life and I am diagnosis with EUPD and PTSD
I really didn't want to be labeled but I knew this curropt government was up to something
Please ask your GP to send you to a MH service for a diagnosis explain to your doctor that you need to diagnosis
IIt's Disgusting I'm having to tell you to do this but we need to fight for our MH xx
I just got awarded my pip too for cancer and I had 2 failed hip replacements , I'm in chronic pain too and it seems like they are targeting this group too , how they think we can go looking for work is just unbelievable
I'm so worried like everyone else
Take care at this horrible time
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My personal opinion is if you have an existing award it will remain that way until it is due to end but my award ends next year.
I think it will effect people like me and new claimants.
Just my thoughts.
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Here's a Telegraph article via MSN, of course the Telegraph love this but it's worth taking onboard. Define "minor mental health problems"? This will have legal ramifications because we're going into what is a disability aren't we? You cannot bar people from claiming incapacity benefits.
It will be interesting to see how "Minor mental health problems" gets defined within a legal context.
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if this is true then it just shows that labour nor the telegraph have any idea what they’re talking about as you can’t get Pip for minor mental health problems anyway. I tried to apply recently as my mental health affects me daily, I can’t make phone calls, I don’t have any friends, I can’t socialise, I have breakdowns, i get so exhausted from a 5 minute interaction it takes me 2 whole days to recover, I become suicidal at any hint of stress. Is that minor? I wouldn’t say so. Under the equality act I am classed as disabled. I still got rejected for PIP so this article literally is just ridiculous and if this is labours plans then they are ridiculous too.
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Exaclty!
thats all we heard from angela rayner, to end all poverty! well that aged well.
liers the lot of them.
I have even heard liz kendal is not happy with these cuts, perhaps going a bit to far.
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But this was from daily mail source so may not be accurate about liz kendals thoughts, i just wish they would bring out the green papers now and put us out our misery!
Again this won't happened fast once they are announced well for current claimants anyway.
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This is true, but only if they are tested, they can attempt to ignore the law, and will only be held to account if the community is prepared to take them to court.
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possible plans to crack down on the appeals process . Apart from the MR which is decided by the DWP the only other appeal is tribunal. Unless as was found in my case the tribunal erred in law . I can’t see them getting away with scrapping appeals.
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Brand new BBC Verify article with numbers, data, and stats.
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if this continues under Starmer labour are finished. Their only hope is to get rid of him and reeves. I don’t know one single person who likes them or what they are doing.
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I read even George Osborne refused ro freeze pip , that's saying something. He said it would go to far if he did that
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I'm the same, sent mine form back last Jan, I can't work. Are they cutting it then before we migrated
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it would be amazing if they did . They must know under Starmer they’ll be finished as a party
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If reeves hadn't made such a **** up with her budget, this wouldn't happen. Raising NI .business closing , laying people off, farmers selling up or worse. This happen to a farmer one of my relatives knew, because of inheritance tax.
Surely get rid of the front benchers, and try new people.
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Worrying times, we will all end up in the a Victorian workhouse,at this rate
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I honestly believe the lack of understanding the complete lack of empathy
will see her removed, Call it lettuce watch II.
They backtracked on non doms
Taxing Gambling firms
actually getting a viable agreement in place for brexit
Windfall tax on energy or make them lower the bills
I emailed the local MP, included a complete breakdown of everything needed,
also informed them poo, pee, vomit, blood do not come out at 30C and quick wash
despite what the adverts suggest meaning energy bills of 400 PPM are now the norm
dropping slightly in the summer. disabled people are poor they know the poor in society are the ones who when they have payments it goes right back into the economy,
Finally some sections of the local government are saying huge cuts could force disabled people into care and would mean either huge rises to council tax or those councils actually going bankrupt.
I also reminded them, imagine a tummy bug the normal treatment doesnt work
so you are having incidents of soiling but its on the same day you are either giving a media briefing or just working, the soiling occurs its visible and requires full change of clothes and a shower with the likelihood its going to happen a few more times.
We know what would happen they would cancel and you would not see them until the bug is gone, but for others its not a bug it doesnt go away its part of life they have to try and deal with. And the non stop rhetoric everyone can work, most are frauds is getting soul destroying when in effect they are blaming people for either being born disabled or becoming.
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What did you read about esa ?
I sent my esa 50 back in Jan last year. All I get we be in touch if needed. I'm still getting my money. I've just done that link you had and I need to be in support group. I sent loads of evidence to support my claim. I know there is a back log but there taking the mick
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