The Green Paper Discussion (the document link is here too!)

Can anyone advise please, I get esa and pip, I'm unsure about the points thing I've no idea what I got or how to find out.

Is it the case that if been on esa and pip for a while nothing changes and the merger of esa jsa is just for new claimants? Is it all starting Nov 2026 and people seem to be worried when others say most of it won't go through because of the courts..

Thanks

Hi, I would like some advice if possible about the 4 point system, I've looked at my recent award which I was granted for another 4 years from December just gone. I always thought I should have got 4 points minium for mixing with people but I got a 2. Now I have read the discriptor for this activity a bit more, which I should have done at first, but was soooo stressed! I surmised I could actually get the 8 points as I would have major panic attacks and self harm with mixing outside etc. I think my problem is I don't know how to write it down properly to explain how it affects me on adaily basis, so any advice would be very helpful and much appreciated for when I am next reveiwed, thanks.

The new guidelines won't come into place this year so they can't do that.

Might I ask if everyone will now receive a personal letter from the DWP about what they will have to do in the future and how it will affect them individually? I have never qualified for PiP but I am in support group of ESA and about to claim UC. Thank you.

I really respect her doing this and that she is really hammering this. We do have some other voices on twitter etc - Jeremy Corbyn, Zarah Sultana, Andy Burnham and some others have been speaking out and it's very appreciated but not close to enough.

The one (only?) good thing was Liz Kendall got a pasting from MPs (mostly labour) over and over: (I fast forwarded to her replies/defenses) on YouTube (on JoePolitics channel)

Also as angry as we are with Liz Kendall - and trust me she absolutely deserves it, Stammer, Rachel Reeves and the disability secretary (Timms?) should all face our rage. A large part of this is because Reeves refuses to bend her own fiscal rules and has a black hole in finances and wants to scrape together cash for defense. Stammer I cannot understand - his mum and brother are/were disabled and couldn't work. Maybe he's truly fell in love with his corporate donars who knows? (hope the vid is allowed)

So where are the details on frequent in-person protests to fight these cuts?

I'm not writing to my MP, and frankly unless you physically can't attend protests, nor should you. Letter writing campaigns are toothless drivel that the British left overrely on for political change (hence why they're toothless drivel).

Hi , problem is Tory’s Mel stride are saying they can achieve 12b cuts . They reckon labour went too easy . So who else can actually get in next election. I hope it’s not ping pong and back to Tory.

I know we are screwed unless Starmer and reeves are ousted or Lib Dem’s greens and independent join forces.

While I got two descriptors with 4 points and 2x2 I hope id be safe after 2028 for my next pip review. (12 for mobility)as well. However if I fail to get 4 points then I understand that we loose basic daily pip, the entitlement to lcwra, carers allowance for my wife and the carers element of UC. Which will leave us in a position where I cant work still but will not have even enough money to cover food and energy bills for us. This is going to be devastating for a lot of people.