Spring Statement Discussion (link to documents here)
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Thanks for your message @sarah_lea12 my PIP award date is to Aug 27 so potentially a review from Aug 26. I would appeal if not successful (doubt I'd get 4 points) but it's then when LCWRA would go in Nov 28 that it is not then survivable. I'll be 65 then and 18 months to pension age.
What's particularly sad and galling to me is I worked for 3 yrs post Covid and kept telling myself that I'd get better over time but I got worse, pushing all the time to keep my job and not pacing (GP refused to refer me to a LC Clinic until 2024). I'm probably not stable enough to participate in trials next year. Words my (estranged) sister said ring in my ears, you're a lost cause. Whether I am or not that's what government make me feel. Sorry for depressing post. Not had a reply off any of the 20 MPs I emailed. For me it is more about just making peace (in advance) with my decisions in the event it all goes through, and at least I know the likely timing that it would affect me.
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Aparentely they will not be doing a impact assessment which is unlawful.
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I'm sorry you were affected, it's only my hips and ankles/feet joints that are affected but they're quite important joints (apart from c another 20 diagnoses, 5 of which are bowel problems). I was totally healthy prior to Covid with only osteoarthritis.
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Where are the red horns on her head.
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Mine is neck, shoulders, wrist, knees, lower back, legs , feet, osteoporosis in both big toes bowel problems linked to it. Plus copd, fatigue due to my cleaning job
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I do really understand how you feel. I know its difficult but we MUST be strong together
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Has anyone looked into judicial reviews on the Government/DWP? Just something I'm looking at to feed my curiosity
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Good grief, I really do sympathise. I forgot about my wrists and my fingers. I'm feeling shell shocked tbh with it all. Recovered recently from 7 wks with double pneumonia and made my copd worse. I hope we all can sleep well tonight it's just all too much.
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Labours own impact assessment revealed benefits cuts will push 250,000 more into poverty and this is all because they want to help people back to work, how in the f**k doest that make any logical or moral sense? Not just this but so many support these cuts including MPs, this is why I honestly do think these policies will come into law because when they do vote you can bet the Tories will also vote for them which means you would need a mass Labour revolt which sadly I dont think is going to happen! Why imo because there are far to many self serving aholes now and not just in Westminster!
When you read some of the comments on the BBC website so many agree with these cuts and think its about time benefit cheats/scroungers are made to work! We live in a society where the majority are all about themselves and sod everyone else no matter their welbeing!
Honestly the more things go on year after year the more I do wonder what is actually going on and why each government that takes over thinks its ok to do this?
Also when are these "Charities & organisations" going to actually tell everyone where they stand regarding this? Its ok to tell people that they need to email, message and write letters to MPs, fill in polls, join protests etc but when will they actually tell the people they support where they stand especially regarding legal challenges and if they can be made as this is by far the most important way to get these cuts changed or stopped, so if they dont think it possible any worthwhile legal challenges can be made its about time they came out and told everyone.I wont ramble on about the rich and big business et all getting away without being made to help to cut the deficit as I will be here all day!
I'll finish with this, this Labour government want to fix the economy on the backs of the most vunerable in society so I can only imagine how thats going to end, yet the vunerable will again be made to blame when it all goes t*ts up and so it will continue!4 -
Completely 💯 agree.
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They’re consulting on a new scheme for CB ESA. I don’t know much about it but it sounds like they want it to be very short term
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Reeves' just kept quoting about how much money it will save the Government in her Spring Statement. She doesn't care about how people are affected, she sees £££.
I've been wondering what charities are actually doing too. It feels like no charities and organisations are actually doing anything. By the time they do anything, it might be too late.
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Working people made miserable by the regressive policies of past and present governments want to see others suffer with them. Truthfully, people posting these vicious comments are as miserable as the rest of us. Divide and conquer are the politics of the modern world.
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It really is shocking how they are treating us , we would be retired now if they didn't change the age , now we are waiting until 67 and not get any pension until 68 , but we have to fight on , I think it is impossible for this go through , it is discrimination . I just hope and pray that those supporting this never get sick , because when I got cancer it broke me , and it scares me every day the fear of it coming back ,i also had covid in 2021 and i wonder if it has affected me as i have pain all over my body, then in 2024 i go bitten by a infected tick and got lyme disease , had antiobotics , but the affects still come back , the LCRWA assessment was back in 2023 for me and I was recovering from cancer surgery , it hindered my recovery because I have mental health issues the anxiety was so severe and i suffered metal health issues from when I was a little girl , health phobia PTSD and the worse to happen to me was cancer , my husband has daily challenges with me , I even have severe obstructive sleep apnea and use a cpap machine or i stop breathing 40 time per hour , and on top of this I have profound hearing loss , both of these have to be added to my pip review ,I was at the audiologist just today and I am having some ear moulds done in April as the digital ones are not working for me , I was nearly knocked down last week or could have been week before as i cannot hear vehicles coming , it is so frightening , this is on top of my agoraphobia , i do not go out anywhere without my husband , and when i nearly got knocked down it was when i was going to the doctors , so if i can get awarded pip again it will take me to 65 and then we will have to see what happens in 2029 , I have my mum who is 92 this year with early onset dementia and today she was upset saying she often thinks about going into a care home , I wish i could have her here with me , but i have my own challenges , i cannot even make the stairs without going up and down on my bottom, i have bad knees and also have balance issues because of the hearing loss . My audiologist said with my level of hearing loss I could have possibly been born with it and nobody has noticed , and my mother is not an easy person to get along with , so it wouldn't work it would cause me to have a breakdown ,it has happened before when i was her carer . sorry for long post . The whole anxiety and mental cruelty is just so evil, that Liz Kendel looks like a demon .
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Hopefully the government will clarify in the coming days/weeks regarding this. All you can do is write to your MP and respond to the Green Paper. It's important to make your views known re the new benefit that they want to bring in.
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it’s all by design and sadly, I think it will get worse, perhaps not with disability but hints of special needs, teachers - they won’t stop until many more head towards poverty . But it’s ok if you are without a passport and travel here to live freely. With what I have read today, they are upping UC and obviously cutting welfare benefits so anyone that gets on UC which to be fair is anyone that does not have a job will be fine because they are healthy individuals.
My husband should just be safe with the reformed benefits but he is a severe case but he only just meets the new criteria . I am horrified that they are expecting anyone claiming disability benefits to be as bad as him or worse . It’s so disgusting as we all know that everyone as different disabilities .0 -
@Zipz , you definitely sound very politically knowledgeable, but all of this is way over my head… Phew! 😥
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anybody has the impact assessment? There might be clues in there regarding ESA CB
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Thank you for that post.
There are going toward many us in this situation.
Those of us who will get the cuts but are too young to receive state pension.
Not what I thought my older age would be, having worked for 40 years, but that's the "new Tory" Government.
Anyone remember the Boris comment that COVID was nature's way of dealing with the old and sick? (not verbatim, but general idea)
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I'm currently on pip and lcwra about £1000 per a month extra. So eventually I'm going to lose so much money all a once
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