Green Paper Related Discussions

Great to learn that it has gone well. Have a rest and enjoy your life.

I think Catherine knows it, as she's the one who has uploaded it on this forum on another thread.

Reeves said only 1.3 million pensioners will get the wfa and that means a lot will miss out again, because if you aren't getting pension credit because you're just over the limit (whatever that is), then we've dipped out again. A £1.5 billion was saved by not paying pensioners the wfa last year,a drop in the ocean to what they waste each year

I don’t even think it’s about the money. I feel it’s sorely aimed at us . Not only are they throwing money around but whatever the save from us to apparently get the welfare bill down they’re promising it to other groups . I think they’d rather take that £5 billion in savings and burn it outside Downing Street imo

https://www.express.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/2063727/dwp-take-action-warning-6-benefits

These benefits were going whichever government was in power. Most of what people are sharing and publishing on here are click bait. They're just not going to tell anyone what's going on until the day. So just sharing things like above is just bringing more worry to people.

I'm fully expecting them to review the whole of PIP criteria, they've as much as said so several times, including in the green paper. It just depends whether they intend to do so with a view to being more balanced across disabilities than currently, or whether it's designed to lock more people out.

The final consensus on all of this green paper drama may go some way towards influencing it.

I don't think that this is click bait, so much as showing that there is an undercurrent of support for disabled people that has not been there in the past.

I still maintain, however, that the general person in the street, until disability affects them, really doesn't think or care much about it. If it's not affecting their taxes they're not too fussed, hence it's harder to motivate them to see the human cost of decisions being made right now. There will also be a fiscal one to them down the line, as there has been with every poor government savings decision for the last 15+ years - but people don't see this clearly until it comes down on their shoulders.

I am not sure whether even the light touch review that currently exists will remain as it is now, if they start changing criteria. It may be like migrating from DLA, when people's lifetime awards were torn up and they were forced to go through gruelling appeals just to establish what the government already knew.

I don't believe anyone is claiming benefits for very minor inconveniences. Anyone who has been through the benefit claim process knows that it's very hard to be awarded anything, even with reams of evidence. I'm sure there are people ASKING about it - but I doubt any of them are actually getting any joy from the system.

Unfortunately my dyscalculic brain can't absorb or make sense of any of the % being tossed about for how many claimants on this or that, and how much may or may not be impacted if they watered down the proposal as has been suggested. At this rate instead of making it more confusing to apply/qualify for PIP, they should just scrap the 4 point condition and admit they were wrong.

Thanks, I know it ain't going to be a smooth ride, it's not meant to be for us who happen to be unwell. Daily struggle.