Cuts To Pip Still?

charlie72

Iv'e just read on Yahoo news online (if it's true) that Starmer and Kendall are still wanting to cut pip benefits after the Timms review is over this time next year. Has anyone else heard anything about this as I thought they'd dropped those plans when the other cuts were pushed through parlianment. It seems to never end all this benefits cuts saga, they seem hellbent on still targeting disabled people, even witht he backlash they got recently trying to cut pip.

KG100

I've noticed it's starting to appear on some online websites again.

I'm not sure if it's official though or just the same old news being rolled out again.

I don't think anything will change untill next years review.

luvpink

https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1065044#Comment_1065044

Its best to wait until the official government announcement in the autumn and stop reading speculative online posts.

Mary_Scope

A lot of the articles that are going around are full of click bait, fear mongering and just misinformation at the moment.

Nothing official has been said so its best to wait until the official Government announcements as LuvPink said

Trevor_PIP

I doubt anything will be done until after the Timms Review. We need to see the result of that.

Albus_Scope

The UKs budget is split into different "pots" so the military's budget will be completely separate from the benefits budget @GrahamN.

OverlyAnxious

https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1065132#Comment_1065132

Why are you guessing that? You'll be better off on UC than ESA if you don't get SDP now. And if you do get SDP, you'll get Transitional Protection to bring UC up to exactly the same amount as you had before.

DLA isn't the same as PIP. They are two different benefits. Neither of them are linked to UC though, so whichever one you get won't change during your migration to UC.

The only thing you could have to pay more for is council tax. Because some councils are choosing to calculate benefit income differently for council tax reduction. That has nothing do with the DWP and is completely area dependent.

OverlyAnxious

https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1065282#Comment_1065282

Transitional Protection is not time limited. It does erode over time, which means your benefits won't increase each April for example, but you will never get less money than you do right now.

Housing Benefit is replaced by Housing Element within UC. Most people get exactly the same money on HE as they did on HB.

This is the legislation on Transitional Protection for SDP.

158_Severe_Disability_Premium.pdf