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  • WhatThe
    WhatThe Community Member, Scope Member Posts: 5,659 Championing

    anon, I can't date your article but bear in mind that this mention of "Amending the LCWRA Substantial Risk regulation" has already happened. I can only think this is here to confuse people.

  • WhatThe
    WhatThe Community Member, Scope Member Posts: 5,659 Championing

    Where do people think that 'experts' like B&W get their information from?

    anon, I don't know anything about PIP only that the greatest risk is to working-age claimants being migrated to UC under the 2016 reforms. They should not have been passed. Nor the 2012 reforms. Parliament was lied to and we are still being lied to about why further changes are needed to fix the 'broken' benefits system. The one they broke!

    The bereaved families have been lied to for too long. I think they deserve to know the facts about welfare reform.

  • sarah_lea12
    sarah_lea12 Community Member Posts: 442 Empowering

    If your circumstances have not changed and you scored 4 points then you would appeal if they scored down this time in my opinion .

  • Zipz
    Zipz Community Member Posts: 4,352 Championing

    Have I missed something important? What is happening in three weeks time. Thank you.

  • Santosha12
    Santosha12 Community Member Posts: 4,285 Championing

    I wondered that, I'm guessing it's the end of the consultation period for the Green Paper but I could be wrong, has been known very occasionally 😉 😅.

  • Zipz
    Zipz Community Member Posts: 4,352 Championing

    The Green Paper consultation period runs until 30 June.

    @Catherine21 What's happening in three weeks?

  • Santosha12
    Santosha12 Community Member Posts: 4,285 Championing

    Thanjs @Zipz. Ooh I'm intrigued now.

  • Santosha12
    Santosha12 Community Member Posts: 4,285 Championing

    Wow you've been SO busy. I'm sending my email tomorrow (consultation response). Watching Rising Damp now... SO funny xx (Channel 56 That's TV). I hope you can relax this evening 😊

  • JasonRA
    JasonRA Community Member Posts: 315 Championing

    I do wonder if Starmer/Reeves are deliberately trying to tank Labour? They have lost the plot with their "plans".

  • Zipz
    Zipz Community Member Posts: 4,352 Championing

    I'm OK, thanks, but I can't get my mind from all this viscous business. Even the pain I'm in beats living with the fear.

  • Zipz
    Zipz Community Member Posts: 4,352 Championing

    Remember to complete the Green Paper questionnaire and, if need be, return to it if you think of something you hadn't the first time. Call them out (politely) for not consulting on key changes.

  • lincsgranny
    lincsgranny Community Member Posts: 201 Empowering

    Hi Everyone

    i emailed Starmer yesterday as ive just had enough of this, goverment in a mess with their finances so lets target the most vulnerable and take what they have to make our goverment book right.

    So many issues i went through but dont think will hear back from him.

    will keep email all mps like i have been doing

  • Ross1975
    Ross1975 Posts: 1,128 Championing

    It is very strange. Maybe, just maybe the light bulb moment has happened for them and they're now seriously considering U turning on WFP and the cruel benefit reforms, doing this will surely get them some votes back. I know they haven't said anything, but maybe they wont until things are concrete.

    I'd rather never vote Labour again even if they do do a u-turn because of what they've done, but what's the alternative? If I vote for Greens they'll probably not get in and because that's one less vote for Labour it'll be more likely that the Tories or Reform will succeed and then we'd be back where we are with all the worry and things could be much, much worse than they are now.

  • Middleton
    Middleton Community Member Posts: 268 Empowering

    People with long awards-say 2028 and further; are pip going to deliberately review them earlier, due to all these changes

  • chiarieds
    chiarieds Community Member Posts: 17,441 Championing

    Thank you for giving a link to this report the data contained in which gives not only a direct correlation between the impact on those of working age & how many are Labour constituents, but also how those worst affected will likely be impacted:

    ''Given that PIP is a health-related benefit, we also assessed the association between life expectancy at birth as an indicator of population health and total estimated loss in PIP. Again, there is a strong association between the two, such that the areas set to lose the most tend to have much lower life expectancies''

  • sarah_lea12
    sarah_lea12 Community Member Posts: 442 Empowering

    With reviews it is a year before the pip award ends, so you don't lose that year .

  • sarah_lea12
    sarah_lea12 Community Member Posts: 442 Empowering
    edited May 2025

    One moderate Labour MP said the party had won a “cost of living election” last July but then had failed to improve the situation for people’s cost of living, while actively making it worse for the elderly and disabled.“That would be a very tough sell anyway but when coupled with countless millions the government can find to house young men arriving on boats every day, it is unsustainable to say we just can’t afford the winter fuel payment or Pip,” he said, referring to personal independence payments, a form of benefit for the sick and disabled.“Reinstating winter fuel and revisiting Pip changes are the minimum that must be done if we want to prevent a Reform wipeout,” he added.Another Labour MP who is seen as a supporter of Starmer said: “I’m sure the government is reflecting on the issues that contributed to the losses last week, including winter fuel payments and disability and health benefits.”


    https://www.ft.com/content/8a045ba5-a3fd-42d5-80d7-d2f57347a86d

    

    Keir Starmer is facing fresh pressure from his Labour MPs to reverse cuts to the winter fuel allowance after the government’s welfare decisions were partly blamed for the party’s setbacks in Thursday’s local elections.

    Labour MPs press Keir Starmer to rethink benefits cuts after local elections

  • luvpink
    luvpink Community Member Posts: 4,558 Championing

    My pip review is underway 17 months early.

    I was shocked to get it so early.

  • Girl_No1
    Girl_No1 Community Member Posts: 414 Trailblazing

    Oh, wow @luvpink … that is really early. 🤔

    Do you mind saying what was the duration of your award, and if you're of working age?

    That information may allow us to begin to see a pattern of how they are approaching this in advance of the expected (and dreaded) changes.

  • chiarieds
    chiarieds Community Member Posts: 17,441 Championing

    Hi @luvpink - that really is early. I believe that for a while review foms were being sent out about 8 months early (tho the DWP can review at any time).

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