Cost of Living rise?.
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A 6.2% rise in my handouts, eh? If it upsets the Taxpayers Alliance, i'm very pleased indeed. 😁
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Are benefits really going up by 6.2%?
I'm hearing it on the news also.
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Someone's got to pay for Agent Orange's war (sorry, excursion to the gulf)!
It'll all come out in the wash. Probably.
I had to stop reading the article when they referred to benefits as "hand-outs". That's extremely patronising. I'd like to see them cope with my disability and not require "handouts". Good luck to them.
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Whatever they call it, it'll help surely?. I'm annoyed about the mp's rise.
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It'll only help if the increase in benefits is sufficient to cater for the coming increases in the price of everything.
That's a big ask.
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I am fed up with news reports that call benefits, handouts. Also it's only universal credit that's going up and that is being paid for by the cut in 'health' benefits to people who are unable to work.
Admin staff who work for the NHS and others) are now back on minimum wage and if they are eligible get a top up on Universal credit because the wage is not enough to live on but they DO pay tax yet it is assumed that no-one who gets benefits pay tax. Also some people who are working and get PIP will be paying tax too. It is appaling what reporters can get away with when malligning the most vulnerable people in society.
I would love to be able to work again. I am highly educated and willing but due to energy limiting conditions, physical conditions, neurological and autonomic conditions (also mental health issues which are not imagined but very very real) I am genuinely unable to work - though still finding it impossible to get full PIP!
The assumption by a medical person the other day was that I had never worked, took part in exercise or carried out any of the housework because I am unable to now was really awful. The look on their face when they found out otherwise was priceless! This is what some in society assume when they consider people like me.
Sorry- rant over. Just a really emotive topic for me.
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Which will never happen, we're lucky to be getting the 6 and a bit percent.
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Maybe this government is the only lifeline for claimants after what the other parties have said they do.
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In a word? No.
Only the basic rate of UC is going up by 6.2%.
However UC + LCWRA is only going up by 3.8%. (And anyone who migrated from IR ESA with Transitional Protection doesn't get the UC increase).
PIP Enhanced DL + M is increasing by 3.8%.
Contribution Based ESA + SG is increasing by 3.8%.
The 6.2% figure is only being used as a tool to create division in society. As is the wording of 'handouts' etc in that article. It's been written to push an agenda rather than to provide impartial facts.
Also worth noting New State Pension is increasing more than most benefits at 4.8%.
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Thank you.
I did think it was probably some attempt at creating division in society again.
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