Scope's reply to the governments planned concessions to the green paper.

IMO it doesn’t matter what they say now/concessions, the whole bill needs to be scrapped and start again from scratch with the disabled community.

You can’t have a person becoming disabled in 2027 who will live in poverty for the rest of his/her life. It’s criminal.

if they are planning on changing the descriptors then there’s no need for this bill.

Just start working on that alongside the disabled community.

Changing the assessments/descriptors forms part of the reform bill. They need to pass this in order to advance whatever they want to do later.

Stephen Timms explanation of Welform Reform to MPs today: https://data.parliament.uk/DepositedPapers/Files/DEP2025-0432/DCL-Welfare_Reform.pdf

Timms Review of the PIP Assessment:

https://qna.files.parliament.uk/ws-attachments/1817526/original/Timms%20Review%20of%20the%20PIP%20Assessment.pdf

Hi @Rosie_Scope - can you change the 2nd link into a hyperlink please

Still absolutely no mention of CB-ESA support group. Disgusting!!!

I'm unsure how things are going to work when PIP is what you have to claim for to get the UC health element when the WCA is scrapped. If PIP daily living is the gateway to the UC health element and you get enough points for this in daily living then I'm guessing you'll be left alone and get LCWRA money, but would you get PIP money as well?

Will it be possible to only get LCWRA money, to only get PIP money, and to get both?

You need to get enough points for DLA in PIP to get the new UC health element. So you either get both payments, or neither. They are incentivising a lot more people to try and get PIP, but, of course, they are tightening the screws on eligibility to make it much more difficult.

some good news:

Debbie Abrahams, the Labour chair of the work and pensions committee and the second signatory on Meg Millier’s reasoned amendment against the welfare bill, has said she cannot support the bill, despite the concessions, ITV’s Romilly Weeks reports. She has posted on social media.

NEW: Debbie Abrahams one of 3 MPs to negotiate the welfare concessions with No 10 says they do not go far enough @ITVNewsPolitics

She says the government rowed back on what had been negotiated and in the current form she will not be supporting the bill

This is even more of a mess for the government than first thought. A costly u turn that might yet not get them off the hook

because experts will call Starver et al. out on their fundamentally unwelcome ****. its the same reason Brexit happened.