Upcoming changes to benefits
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Thanks I've read this article as well, i know 5 people that will be plunged into outright poverty with these brutal cuts, one will be forced to return to an abusive home where they will be physically attacked by family or live on the streets and another will lose their independence when these cuts happen. But it says "new claimants" would these changes affect people already on LCWRA? Thanks for your time.
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Well if these reports are correct Labour had a choice of either take money from the poorest sick and disabled people or take it from the richest people and corporations. Guess which they picked.
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taking money off people that are deemed too sick to work and then giving it to people that are healthy enough to work is surely disability discrimination.
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Yeah noticed that bit about new claimants. I think eligibility to both PIP and Low Capacity is going to get much harder. I worked for decades before I was registered disabled and resent the tax I paid to this country’s governments now.. hoping that if I couldn’t work there would be a life raft. How wrong was I!
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Exactly. I knew when Liz Kendall got her post it was going to be tough.. she’s never been to the left of politics. Some of her comments would sit well in Reform.
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I have started my first draft on the email I intend to send to my MP. I've never written to a MP before. Does anyone have any tips?
I'm going to keep it to one page and the hardest part will be remaining polite and dignified when my blood is boiling this much!
I was going to include details of my own illnesses, benefit experiences and how the cuts would affect me personally. Should I? Or keep to why I disagree with the cuts in general?
Any tips welcome! Thank you and take care
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Indeed. Also they’re challenging the opinions of doctors/ health professionals who deemed the person too Ill to work through the WCA?? Same with PIP.. we’ve been medically assessed… so they’re going to overturn that and discriminate us instead. It’s crazy stuff.
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Well John Crace certainly gets it…
Labour used to give the needy the benefit of the doubt. Now they slash their benefits | John Crace https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/mar/11/labour-used-to-give-the-needy-the-benefit-of-the-doubt-now-they-slash-their-benefits?CMP=share_btn_url
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Apologies hope this link works
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@alex25 you have precisely summed up my feelings in this post . Utterly disgraceful!
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I think you might have misunderstood my post. It's satire. I don't want anything that labour are doing…neither does that journalist so far as I know!
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I forgot the ending! I'm glad we are both on the same page. 👍
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I've been on TikTok most of the night and I'm seeing a worrying trend. I've long known that a lot of people with physical disabilities do not like being 'lumped in' with those of us with MH conditions and I'm also aware of the perceived hierarchy that exists within the disability community.
From what I saw last night in comments, an awful lot of disabled people are seeking to throw us under the bus.
Just as it often seems to be disadvantaged low wage people who are most scathing of benefit claimants, it seems that PIP recipients with physical disabilities are overwhelmingly keen to see PIP withdrawn from people who they very clearly see as firstly undeserving and secondly, definitely not disabled.
IDS said yesterday that one reason he thought restrictions on eligibility would fail was because the disability lobby was so vast, however what if that lobby is representative of a lot of disabled citizens and they too decide to split in order to save themselves.
I'm toast if the supposed leaked cuts make it through. I've got so little fight left in me.
Please, remember that we all have challenges for different reasons and we shouldn't be letting them divide and rule.
The people who are benefitting are the very rich who are avoiding paying a tiny bit more tax, not your mentally ill brothers and sisters. Please don't sacrifice us.
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Both your own experiences and why you oppose cuts generally are perfectly good things to include. Be polite but firm. And if this is a Labour MP something along the line of "if these cruel and unjustified measures come into force, the devastation caused to your party will likely resemble that caused to the unfortunate individuals affected" would be a good way to finish.
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Just emailed my mp, about the cuts , doubt he will reply he never does. I'm on esa and get pip . So does that mean when I do get uc it will cut to nothing. I'm so worried, about bills, and I have pets. I rather starve than see them go hungry. But I pay insurance on them . My conditions won't get better. Copd also effects your heart the stress probably make my heart give out. My other conditions is genetic so again won't get better. I am on antidepressants as it is . Have ptsd ,so all this is making things worse
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I think i put something like this view of theirs (labour) on disabled people was similar to the view of the Nazi's & that they are pushing their own voters away. Think i ended it with be the Labour Party not Red Tories or Lie-bour.
Might write again
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So glad you said this, especially because so much of what’s being leaked echoes Sunak’s bs from last year — specifically targeting the mentally ill. (And I’m fed up with them calling it ‘mental health’ — it’s mental ILLNESS! Everyone has mental health, just like everyone has physical health!)
All disabilities matter just as much whether you can see them or not. We need to stand together.
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I have been watching noah on you tube for a while now and for a while he had disappeared and I couldn't find him on any platform. I had is you tube come up last night and he explained the pip and UC cuts if that's what you want to call them. Please go and check him out. He does make sense. He really did put my mind at ease.
Noah Bear Nyle Life on YouTube.
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Ok wrote again but also apologised for writing again. I headed it as benefits & labour betrayal (god i need spellcheck)
In it i pointed in our town her constiuents have been hit by WFA cut, 2 child cap, our farmers & now this. Have said its going to kill that its better to be a independent then lose her seat at the next GE. That i became disabled in my 40's had to give medicial evidence & in person assessment to get my pip & its got zero fraud.
Also said its like the front bench want to destroy the party & that we voted for change & not more of tge same & there are already people planning the tatical votes to oust the 35mps who wrote the support letter.
Think thats it.
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Why are we infighting?
I think its because of the few young idiots that film themselves saying look what i got making everyone else look bad & the fact people are scared.
I have so called invisible disabilities, CFS, Fibro & F.N.D but also suffer with DDD, osteoarthritis of the spine, asthma, have constant disc bulges from prolasped discs, part of my spine has fussed togther, have cysts in my spine, have been advised to go to A&E straight away if i dont know ive pee'd as damage gone wrong way & could end up paraylsed, muscles going in my leg might be getting arthritis in my hands & waiting for adult autism diagnosis. Oh yeah depression NOS or something like that.
So which catorgary to i fit in?
According to labour the bin
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