Green Paper Discussion (from 24th March, 2025)

Most people think agoraphobic cannot go out at all. That is simplistic and wrong. People with agoraphobia often leave home in certain limited circumstances. You have bravely cited your own. Perhaps the person of whom you write can only venture out alone without the pressure of people around him.

The problem is that, when you start reiterating and validating the idea that 'some people are cheating', you are actually causing harm to disabled people, especially those whose disabilities are less easy to codify in the current system.

The DWP's official stats for fraud in PIP are negligible (0%) and ESA are very low as well. The DWP are not friends to disabled people, and many, many claimants have struggled to prove their claims, gone through tribunals, had issues with assessments and reports…this forum is full of those testimonials. This is good evidence that the DWP is not letting people claim disability benefits or related benefits easily. If even the DWP - who want to monitor our banks for fraud - think there isn't much or even any going on, then it probably isn't.

When disabled people start questioning other disabled people, that's when we lose this fight. It ultimately comes down to - "I know I'm disabled, but I don't know you are, so maybe you're not". Or worse, "My disability affects me like this, but yours affects you differently, so maybe you're not really disabled." These are all ideas floating around at the moment, in the media, on social media, and in comments sections on threads and stories.

This is not a rhetoric we should jump on board with.

Our money goes back into the economy while they get pay rise, claim concert tickets and other things while they themselves never pay for it.

That reads as your only concerned about your own circumstances.
Think of someone living alone who is going to lose 2/3 of their income, with no ability to work and no one to fall back on for support.

Since the first day I claimed incapacity benefit, after my health problem came out of nowhere in a split second without warning, this is by far the most severe reform I have witnessed on the benefit system, in one part because its targeting sickness and disability benefits at the same time. But also in another part it has wide sweeping eligibility changes (remember there is also more planned after the 4 point change), and that sickness will no longer be recognised at all for the first time in several decades. The country on a social level is going back by a large step. I wish the UN had the balls to kick us out for breaking their own rules.

The welfare reforms in this form are also not needed at all. As a % of GDP social security spending for the working age has been stable. Its pension age spending thats growing.

Also I am not even sure you understand the green paper, there wont be a LCWRA in 2030.