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DWP figures released in response to an FOI request from the Benefits and Work website show how many people with different disabilities and illnesses currently receive the PIP daily living allowance having scored under four points in all categories. They include:
- 214,000 claimants with arthritis – that’s 77% of all arthritis claimants receiving the daily living allowance
- 38,000 with cardiovascular diseases – 62%
- 45,000 with respiratory diseases – 55%
- 38,000 with multiple sclerosis and neuropathic diseases – 48%
- 23,000 with cancer – 33%
- 11,000 with cerebral palsy and neurological muscular diseases – 24%
- 26,000 with psychotic disorders – 23%
The figures also indicate how many new applicants with different conditions would over time fail to qualify for PIP from November next year if the plans are voted through.
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I have lived as a non-tourist in very different countries, and I have not had any problems with the local population - maybe because I behaved decently and did not show disrespect for the traditions of the natives?
Voting for certain parties is like going to support your football team - it only benefits the owners of the football club (or party).
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HI! It seems that you did not understand the meaning of what I wrote - the government does not need petitions and personal letters to deputies to collect public opinion - there are systems for this that collect data on the Internet.
https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CBP-10236/CBP-10236.pdf
2.9 Department for Work and PensionsThe Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has experimented with several AI-related tools, including:
• White Mail: a correspondence reviewing tool that identifies people whomight be in vulnerable situations and prioritises them for DWP assistance
.• The Lighthouse AI Programme: as of 2023, this involved:
– trialling AI-enabled projects to complement the services workcoaches provide to customers in job centres.
– trialling how AI can write, update, or organise code to address thecurrent digital skills shortage in areas like software engineering.
– trialling productivity tools for all colleagues to use, such as rapidlysummarising policy documents or providing simple tools to gatherinformation for frontline colleagues.15
Note that a Guardian article from January 2025 reported that several DWP AIexperiments had been cancelled or curtailed.16
It is not known how true this is, but even if only a small part is true, it looks like a monkey with a grenade.
I will note that the links you provided contain significant errors, it is clear that it was not written by an AI specialist.0 -
Aktion 4.
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The
"Do not scrap the Work Capability Assessment (WCA)" petition has finally been published ….Everyone needs to get it signed !3 -
Please share the names, titles and emails of those you wrote to.
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Catherine, you have been doing an amazing job sending out all those emails, just remember to take care of yourself as well :)
The Runcorn election result is good news for nobody. Reform's gains are also not good for anyone on this forum, unless you are strongly in favour of no welfare state and removal of all employment disabled benefits after four months. Those are Reform's actual policies.
Moving on.
Our Council didn't have a vote. This wasn't because of the mayoral or boundary changes, they voted 2 years ago so it's not their cycle yet. Even if they had had an election here I know it would've stayed a Lab majority. The last time there was a mass drop in Labour council votes, around the time of Corbyn and when people were being silly over Brexit, our Council gained red seats. It gained even more last time. It's been a very long time since it was anything other than red.
We don't have a realistic Labour candidate in our ward and never have had, so all this is pretty irrelevant to me anyway :/ Can't vote for or against what doesn't exist.But I am watching with interest the results in some neighbouring areas. Some good and some bad (from my perspective) so far.
The only positive I can see from Reform winning anything is that there's plenty of time till the election for people to realise they aren't really in it for the voters. Otherwise we are all in for a very unpleasant time come the next GE.
The Tories are haemorrhaging votes to Reform like nobody's business, so a coalition or shift is very likely if this trajectory continues.4 -
Actually we are more intelligent than they believe , we know they are corrupt , we know they want us as slaves . I think this labour government are puppets and controlled , and I think the benefits cuts are to wake people up , most thought labour were going to save us and they are worse than the tories , they must be laughing their socks off at us , they don't care they are cruel heartless and greedy .
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I just heard something from YouTube regarding the voting , not sure if anyone on here has heard but apparently Labour are not happy with starmer ( obviously) and are talking of getting rid of him and putting Ed milliband in his place . How true this is I don’t know but can he be any worse than starmer for us ?
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You are doing very important work by sending out letters! And if you published the list of emails, I think many would join you.
I would expand the mailing list to the former MP. My idea is that we should also write to those corporations and ministries that receive money from saving on the disabled. To find out whether such money burns their souls or not.0 -
it’s not looking good for starmer so that’s good news . According to what I’ve heard and I obviously don’t know if it’s true but his personal life’s in trouble and so is his premiership so hopefully he’ll resign
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I think even if Mr. Bean is elected as Prime Minister, nothing will change in the government's course. The inertia of the bureaucratic machine is very high, the party is just paint on it.
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can anyone at scope tell me if there’s any problems with the forum or is it my phone as I can’t follow links via my email as I sign pops up saying there’s problems right now .
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Hi @secretsquirrel1 unfortunately there is. We've raised this the relevant area, and hope to have this resolved soon. Sorry for any inconvenience.
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I’d have some hope if starmer left . I’m not sure how milliband votes regarding the disabled but can anyone be worse than starmer reeves Kendall Timms ?
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thank you 🙏
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Do you think they personally wrote the Green Book and came up with Aktion 4?
They are forgotten clowns in a war that was lost in advance according to the Tory scenario (possibly).
I am interested in why the clergy of various religions have not loudly and unequivocally spoken out against the cuts in benefits for the disabled.0 -
noonebelieves has trouble now accessing this thread, but would like the following links he's provided elsewhere on the forum to also be available here. Copying what he said:
Sign these petitions and Share it widely. Back all these petitions calling out this injustice. Let’s send a powerful, united message: We will not be ignored.
Do not scrap the Work Capability Assessment (WCA) -Parliamentary Petition
Halt Government Cuts to Disability and Low-Income Benefits -Change.Org
Halt Further Limitations on Disability Benefits by Labour -Change.Org
Halt the Proposed Benefit Cuts -Change.Org
STOP THE DWP’S WAR ON DISABLED PEOPLE -Change.OrgI'm sure he won't mind me adding this one too in case anyone reading this hasn't already seen it:
This now has over 13,000 signatures from disabled people, advocates & carers as well as many healthcare professionals.
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We need more MPs like this, well done 👏
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