Spring Statement Discussion (link to documents here)

Disability charities say a quarter of Brits are disabled. What the above article fails to mention is only a small proportion of the quarter actually claim any benefit. The number fails to take into consideration the number of elderly who obviously have health conditions. If they want true stats they should look at the number of working age Brits who are disabled as that figure is going to be much smaller. 3.6 million people claim PIP which is less than 5% of Brits.

The media either don't care to write truthful articles or are too lazy to actually check the true statistics.

"those who can work should work" Those that can claim freebies, SHOULDN'T claim freebies.

I'm sorry but that phrase really annoys me.

I didn't realise that people who never worked had paid national insurance.

Thats news to me but I agree that benefits should not discriminate against anyone regardless of whether or not they contributed to the system.

Yeah I used to be carer for my mum and it got me class 1 , so we all pay into the system whatever way people look at it.

This scares me for that reason,

When disabled people are rightly terrified along come reform promise them

everything being scared makes some people very receptive, Reform would love the NHS

to be insurance based something they dont get pushed enough in the endless TV interviews.

Eluned Morgan has finally come off the fence and not supporting her good friend Keir

it only took 2 weeks and non stop comments from Plaid about why the silence,

I still feel its the Unions hold the power in this, they donate millions to Labour

if they say drop this or we stop funding it becomes a full blown crisis for Starmer

the guy buckles under pressure, It only took 3 weeks of Daily negative headlines

and they dropped all the wealth tax plans apart from 2 minor ones.

the media should be pointing out VAT is a tax we all pay, even children buying console games

It generates around 368 million a year. We pay tax but we also put all the money back into the economy, food inflation alone is about to get worst with new brexit related charges in July,

Reeves has always wanted these cuts that's why she doubled down on the WFP axe

So my next infusions the really nasty chemotherapy are due in May

they last 8 -10 hours each, because I "fell" between my wheelchair and the treatment chair

last time even though 4 nurses were present they are moving me to the Geriatric day unit

so a hoist can be used, reason? when a patient falls there's around 17 forms the nurses need to fill in mostly to cover liability, they are very polite but made it clear they can do without the hassle, So it begs the question if that happens within the NHS what company would like someone who falls daily? the fall team normally arrive within an hour but when busy been on the floor over 4 hours. In that time soiled myself both ways to the point mum had to put the pads all around the floor. The media wont talk about pee.poo,blood vomit. but for most of us its part of "living", Today 13,90 went on energy all the sheets needed to be washed the duvet

and the pillows the nappy failed again and heavy soiling, its rained all day so tumble had to be used, The energy bills alone are now always over 400 PPM, In the land of Labour I truly believe they think we are all rolling in money. But then when they can put the energy on expenses is there any wonder this detachment has kicked in.

whether it offended them or not I sent the MP a picture of the bed and how badly soiled it gets and told them 30 minute washes no matter what the adverts say DO NOT remove poo.

What are these 17 forms? I hate to think they're doing that.

Everyone has a right to see their medical record. You can make a SAR (Subject Access Request) or get your authorised representative to do so on your behalf.

They also profit from being in government from businesses yet blame us for it.

National insurance contributions are paid for people who receive carers allowance they are also paid for people who claim universal credit.

When you receive Carer's Allowance, you automatically receive Class 1 National Insurance credits for each week you are entitled to it which helps protect your National Insurance record and contributes towards your State Pension

Receiving Universal Credit automatically grants you Class 3 National Insurance credits, which can contribute to your State Pension,