The Government says that the PIP caters for the elements of sdp and edp where the DLA didnt. Therefore the sdp and edp are not to be considered in the mandatory universal credit roll out from July 2019.
So at the moment according to the DWP anyone getting the ESA support and PIP are getting paid too much. The government cant legally change this. This is where the mandatory UC comes into play. They are now able to strip the sdp and edp from our benefits legally. They are hushing us by saying they will give us a transitional payment, but that payment is highly flawed and is basically a pay freeze on the most vunerable people in society.
Whatever transitional payment we get, will be offset each year by the UC rise. So for example if you are receiving
Year 1. £1100 UC and £400 transitional payment:-
Year 2 UC rises to £1150 transitional payment lowers to £350
Year 3 UC rises to £1200 transitional payment lower to £300
This will continue until the transitional payment is fully absorbed into UC and is zero.
The governement are using UC to take away our sdp and edp, and because they are offering this transitional payment, people dont understand that in fact we are going to so much worse off. We are losing money.
Each year our rent, council tax, water bills, electricity , gas and food etc is going to go up here is an example.
Rent year 1: £400 UC £1100 transitional payment £400.
Year 2. Rent £430 UC £1150 transitional payment £350 on just the rent £30pm worse off
Year 3. Rent £470 UC £1200 transitional payment £300 now £70 a month worse off than year1
Year 4. Rent £510 UC £1250 transitional payment £250 now £110pm worse off than year1. these are just cautionary figures.
Year 5. Rent £560 UC £1300 transitional payment £200 now £160pm worse off than year 1.
The above figures are monthly estimates.
These figures are just examples of how rent, and all our other bills will wipe into our transitional money and leave us impoverished, as we will have no control over rent rises etc and be living on frozen money, whilst inflation goes up. Obviously your UC will be higher but the rent increase will need to be met by you out of your UC and transitional income without any state help.
I would like to stress that these figures do not include your PIP payment this is separate.
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