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

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  • luvpink
    luvpink Online Community Member Posts: 1,830 Championing
  • YogiBear
    YogiBear Online Community Member Posts: 141 Empowering

    @sparrow77 The points you've stated I've also said in my response to the Green Paper. I responded by saying 'I hope they have social services/care plans/NHS on standby to pick up the pieces due to the fallout of this if this goes through'.

  • egister
    egister Posts: 843 Empowering

    In other words, the representative authorities in your case did not help to solve your problems. This is also evident from this thread. So the declared functions of the representative authorities are fiction. Why then deal with them?
    My very small, many years ago experience of working at the lowest level of local government has long strengthened my conviction about the uselessness of the election system for ordinary people.

  • Hopeless
    Hopeless Online Community Member, Scope Member Posts: 680 Empowering

    I don’t know. I’m not sure the decision maker was aware ongoing awards exist as she stated all PIP awards are given for fixed terms as circumstances might change. It was an MR decision (increased from 4 years to 10) so I’m taking it as a win anyway

  • hsm
    hsm Online Community Member Posts: 14 Connected

    Am surprised that not many healthy working class people have made a big fuss about the Benefits Cuts.

    They do not realise that if they became ill in the future it would be impossible to live on this Benefit System which this nasty Party is bringing in.

  • Ross1975
    Ross1975 Online Community Member Posts: 125 Empowering

    I thought whatever would be in the green paper would take years to get put into place, but some of these things will be put into place in April next year, and then the other things in 2028 just three years away.

    Hopefully these things will be shot down, watered down, or at least delayed.

  • Girl_No1
    Girl_No1 Online Community Member Posts: 205 Empowering
    edited March 21

    @hsm I get why you're surprised but I'm not. When I was fit, healthy and working, I always assumed if I became too unfit to work, finance would the last thing on my mind so gave it very little thought.

    I imagine a lot of others felt/feel the same way. It's only when it actually happens that you realise the financial implications, along with the health impacts.

  • kittenface19
    kittenface19 Online Community Member Posts: 39 Contributor

    My reward was supposed to be until August 2024, but my review was in Jan 2024, completed eventually in Jan 2025.

  • Santosha12
    Santosha12 Online Community Member Posts: 750 Empowering

    I wonder if people who are working are so worried at the cost of living crisis and how it's all affected their standard of living and lifestyle and fears of tax increases coming etc.etc that there's an apathy towards anyone else suffering, especially if they think it's their taxes that are contributing to us that are sick or disabled. And as @Girl_No1 alludes to, people not thinking it might be them one day needing the support.

    I've definitely noticed almost a contempt towards people on benefits (online as I don't go out), and sadly, not just from government.

  • Zipz
    Zipz Online Community Member Posts: 1,885 Pioneering

    There hasn't been anything said about PIP claimants being reassessed early. Whether your wife loses her PIP eventually will depend on whether she can score one 4-point descriptor and 4 more points made up from equal or lower descriptors. That your wife has an indefinite award suggests that she could meet the new regulations at reassessment. Do you know her present points?

  • Zipz
    Zipz Online Community Member Posts: 1,885 Pioneering
  • gamer1
    gamer1 Online Community Member Posts: 75 Empowering

    PIP is already very difficult to get now they will make it more difficult. And what will happen to LCWRA and LCW and those that only get that and no PIP? How many millions are they wanting to suffer because of bad management of a system that should be very straight forward. It doesn't make sense at all. How can you merge PIP and LCWRA when they are completely different benefits. It doesn't make sense.

  • Zipz
    Zipz Online Community Member Posts: 1,885 Pioneering

    I'm writing to key parliamentarians in the coming days to find out.

  • Popster2020
    Popster2020 Online Community Member Posts: 32 Connected
  • Zipz
    Zipz Online Community Member Posts: 1,885 Pioneering
  • gamer1
    gamer1 Online Community Member Posts: 75 Empowering

    How can you score 4 points for one descriptor and qualify for PIP with a total of only 4. And score a total of 20 and not qualify for PIP because you don't have 4 points in one descriptor. Its worse than it is currently. It doesn't make sense to me at all.

  • alexroda
    alexroda Online Community Member Posts: 147 Empowering

    you need a total of 8 points but at least of one the activities has to have 4 points

  • Ross1975
    Ross1975 Online Community Member Posts: 125 Empowering

    I asked ChatGPT if the LCWRA reassessments have already started and it said this:

    The exact date for the resumption of these reassessments has not been announced yet.

    Now since it's ChatGPT it could be wrong, but, it does seem to get things right more often than not, so what it has said has helped ease my anxiety a bit. Hopefully it'll be a long while before they restart.

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