Green Paper Discussion - includes accessible formats and consultation event sign up links!

Thank you for your very kind words! 😀

The monarchy and the honours system is all part of why rich, privileged people regardless of whether they are of good character or not are so greatly respected in this very unequal country.

If you are poor or disabled you are considered to be of poor character, a scrounger and fraudulent. This is despite the majority being of good character, genuinely disabled and honest. 😡

I'm certainly not holding my breath for any positive changes in our class culture anytime soon.

Thank you for your help, looking for me 😊👌 but I have googled it myself and read about it.

I just think that I was still just really stunned about the good news. 😳 It hasn't really sunk in yet.

However, the majority of disabled people are still nowhere near retirement age and have these vile proposals hanging over them and I do not feel any less strongly about the position they are being put into, including the people on this community.

It is morally indefensible and I will still be campaigning against it, in the same way as I was doing before. ✊

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would that help all of us or just that particular age group? It’s obvious it’s all about saving money and not jobs so surely it’s against all our human rights . I do hope so

so we’d need to find a way to fight in court for all of us too ? If the UN and now amnesty are saying we are already suffering human rights violations surely that’s enough for court proceedings

That's what I always say about narcissistic people, they have no perspective.

They are not capable of seeing anything from anyone else's point of view so cannot see how they are affecting the people they are using for their own ends.

Because of the narcassism, they are so entitled that they think that they are invincible and that nobody can touch them.

It is therefore a surprise to them that we do live in a democracy and that disabled people vote!!

This lack of perspective could very well work in our favour! 😁

I’d prefer Sunak . I don’t think he was this evil and would have watered down his green paper. Starmers enjoying this . I’ve been watching Dan wootton on YouTube about starmer and according to him things are being hidden in the msm . I don’t know but just saying .

also MW, do you know anything about uc migration and biographical interviews over the phone . I don’t have a passport or driver license so they’ve given me an interview at their office. I’ve left a message in my school report ( journal) and asked for biographical interview but haven’t heard back . One of them said I couldn’t as I messed up and have no passport etc but another said I could if I ask in my journal.

What do you think is the best and most productive way to fight this? We can only deal with the people who currently have the power to change things. Or do we just give up and accept that nothing can be done?

Numerous Labour MP's voted for the past changes to WCA so are likely a lost cause. I want to feel hopeful and is there any possibility for legal challenges to past changes in legacy benefits or are we screwed because we didn't act hard enough back then?

Going back a few pages but if you mean the assessment report did not resemble the actual assessment contents, I think this is something that happens more often than the outside world would like to believe.

I have a recording of my assessment, and when you compare the text of the assessment with what was said, there are numerous discrepancies. There are also points where you hear the assessor typing on the recording but none of the information mentioned at that point appeared on the assessment report.

And for several of my criteria it said "x reported difficulty with this - but I think they can do it fine so 0 points". The assessor never read my evidence. My decision maker read a bit of it but the decision bore zero resemblance to my case or my evidence. It doesn't help that the decision makers and MR people are mostly not the assessors, and so most decisions are made by people who have never met you. In my case everything was based on the assessment report, which was inaccurate, rather than the evidence :/

Reading comments of other claimants I feel like this happens quite often, and is one of the big reasons a lot of cases end up at tribunal. It's also the reason why the 4 points rule leaves nobody safe.

The DWP as an organisation has too much power, basically. There is no regulator. Most other bodies have regulators to ensure checks and balances, but the DWP deals with a huge number of vulnerable people and there is nobody to ensure they do it properly. Without a complete overhaul of the DWP, breaking it down and rebuilding it with these checks and balances, any policy that comes from that department is probably going to be unfit for purpose :/ Just the idea of giving such an organisation more responsibility or ability to monitor or intrude into people's lives is quite terrifying because who is there to ensure safeguarding targets are met?