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secretsquirrel1 Online Community Member Posts: 783 Championing10:27AM

do you mean in regards to the 4 point rule but they knew in 2016 ?

I don't know anything about PIP or when this rule was thought up. I've not researched PIP but since the plan is to merge working-age benefits then the 2016 cuts and changes to the WCA need to be factored in. PIP proposals in 2015 didn't go ahead but DWP has had 10 years to refine a new plan!

SSAC reports and W&P committee minutes describe welfare reforms past and present.

Labour is proceeding as though nothing much happened back then when it did.

She is poison! She was Chief Whip when the 2015 cuts were on the menu. She appears to have double-crossed Jeremy Corbyn then threatened to resign at the start of Labour's administration.

I don't know what hold she has over Keir Starmer or indeed the Labour Party.

The public has lapped up the anti-Starmer narrative like they did the anti-EU narrative.

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"so all the people on the panel for checking green paper into together"

Yes.

Amaya_Ringo, "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?"

DWP intends to swallow HMRC fairly soon, I think. The ending of Contribution-Based benefits isn't getting much attention but this is massive for working-age citizens. It is truly terrifying.