Disability Benefit Cuts - Take action before July 9th.

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  • Catherine21
    Catherine21 Online Community Member Posts: 9,576 Championing

    What about healt element of uc though when wca scrapped

  • Catherine21
    Catherine21 Online Community Member Posts: 9,576 Championing
  • LIVEDANDLEARNED
    LIVEDANDLEARNED Online Community Member Posts: 137 Empowering

    Can someone please summarise what is going on. There are so many messages and it’s too confusing. Are they completely removing LWCRA? or reducing it? Or keeping it at the same amount and just not increasing it?

  • Danny123
    Danny123 Online Community Member Posts: 223 Empowering

    My understanding of this is , when the WCA is scrapped , the health element of UC will be decided through the new pip assessment that takes over from it and what ever criteria it holds ( 4 point rule not being part of it anymore )

  • Danny123
    Danny123 Online Community Member Posts: 223 Empowering

    I guess work commitments would apply if you didn't pass the new pip assessment

  • Zipz
    Zipz Online Community Member Posts: 4,349 Championing

    I don't think it's being kept under wraps. The status of the Bill is now up to the Speaker. His decision might not be immediate in this case. Perhaps we won't know until the Bill reaches the Lords. The House rises for recess on 24th. Here's the latest from B & W:

    What happens next

    At the time of writing we do not know if the bill has been certified as a money bill.  If it has not, then it will go to the Lords who can put forward amendments in the normal way.

    If it is a money bill, it will still go to the House of Lords, but this is a formality.  In theory, the Lords can suggest amendments but, because it is a money bill, the government are free to simply ignore them.  After one month the bill as currently written will become law.

    The changes in the bill, however, will not come into force until April 2026.

  • Holly_Scope
    Holly_Scope Posts: 4,794 Scope Online Community Coordinator

    Anybody else trying to get their head around the 400 amendments and what was/wasn't accepted last night? 😅 You're not alone! Scope are working on an update to the previous blog posted on our website.

  • Catherine21
    Catherine21 Online Community Member Posts: 9,576 Championing

    A lot of people saying momey bill they want it passed by summer resee or whatever it is we suffer why thier having banquets the king is in on it they all are this was all premeditated they just put the Parliament clown show on for us I knew if it was that lady speaker go through did yo usee her keep looking nodding at Liz and that thing timms

  • SadOldPanda
    SadOldPanda Online Community Member Posts: 37 Empowering

    My thoughts too, I did notice he refused to say the disabled people in the review would have a veto power, as the MP who asked said how can it be an equal review if one half can't veto. He said they hoped for a consensus. Honestly I feel one of the biggest mistakes last night was not getting it into the bill that the review would be equal and fair because as many of us have said timms is not to be trusted

  • jasminehoop
    jasminehoop Online Community Member Posts: 51 Contributor

    From the Benefits and Work website:

    "Proposals such as the abolition of the WCA, the proposal to amalgamate contributory ESA and JSA into a single time limited contributory benefit  and not paying 18-21 year old PIP recipients the health element of UC is not affected by last night’s vote.  They will all require separate legislation of their own."

    https://www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/latest-on-uc-and-pip-bill-as-labour-gets-through-third-reading

  • Zipz
    Zipz Online Community Member Posts: 4,349 Championing

    Here's what I wrote about the Bill as a Money Bill earlier. See below. Even if the Speaker does certify it as a Money Bill, the Bill could not be passed by recess. It's only two weeks away.

    IMHO, this Bill does not meet Money Bill criteria. However, the status of the Bill is now up to the Speaker. His decision might not be immediate in this case. Perhaps we won't know until the Bill reaches the Lords. The House rises for recess on 24th. Here's the latest from B & W:

    What happens next

    At the time of writing we do not know if the bill has been certified as a money bill.  If it has not, then it will go to the Lords who can put forward amendments in the normal way.

    If it is a money bill, it will still go to the House of Lords, but this is a formality.  In theory, the Lords can suggest amendments but, because it is a money bill, the government are free to simply ignore them.  After one month the bill as currently written will become law.

  • mrsBB
    mrsBB Online Community Member Posts: 303 Empowering

    We consider this reassurance to be disingenuous.  We’ll be writing more about this in the near future.

    Yep I do too, that's the exact part I need convincing of where it relates to conditions.

  • [Deleted User]
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  • mrsBB
    mrsBB Online Community Member Posts: 303 Empowering

    Yet lots more to come with parts not even voted on yet. It will remain like this for the foreseeable future, think we just need to accept what we have been told for now, then prepare for the next round of this circus.

  • Danny123
    Danny123 Online Community Member Posts: 223 Empowering

    Well that's not as terrible as it could of been I spose 🤷.... Just need to concentrate on passing a standard WCA , you never know we may get lucky and satisfy the SCC criteria aswell , then that will take us up to when the WCA gets scrapped which should be around April time .... And let's face it that will be a big undertaking so there's a good chance we won't have anything to do with the new pip assessment until some time in 2029 , then we just will need to go from there

  • Catherine21
    Catherine21 Online Community Member Posts: 9,576 Championing
  • Catherine21
    Catherine21 Online Community Member Posts: 9,576 Championing

    So we don't know if it's a money bill is that what your saying head all over the place

  • [Deleted User]
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  • Zipz
    Zipz Online Community Member Posts: 4,349 Championing

    We don't know yet whether it has been certified as a Money Bill.

  • lil12
    lil12 Online Community Member Posts: 17 Connected
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