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

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  • Ross1975
    Ross1975 Online Community Member Posts: 221 Empowering
    edited June 30

    Ah okay, I'm on LCWRA but not PIP at the moment, so when everything's rolled into PIP and I get reassessed I'll either end up on no money at all or more than what I'm on now.

  • mawempathy
    mawempathy Online Community Member Posts: 145 Empowering
    edited June 30


    Yes, but that's assuming they don't put additional protections in to avoid cliff edge situations like yours. These aspects of the bill are subject to the Timms review, as I understand it.

    Also… as an existing LCRWA claimant, I think you're protected in the immediate term.

  • Stellar
    Stellar Online Community Member Posts: 315 Pioneering

    Not quite. It's cause they know even if people know, they won't adequately oppose it. The UK left as a movement is politically and strategically inept. So it makes sense they won't care what the masses think.

    politics is about strategy, not just whether the facts are on your side. the facts are these cuts will lead to the completely avoidable deaths of thousands of disabled people. any strategy that isnt targeted, effective and relentless will fail.

  • JasonRA
    JasonRA Online Community Member Posts: 296 Championing
  • Girl_No1
    Girl_No1 Online Community Member Posts: 340 Pioneering

    This, amongst other things, just proves they have no/zero/zilch/nada understanding of the processes they are intent on 'reforming'.

    Even those raising questions don't have a single clue about the nuances/intracacies of welfare benefits.

    Seems to me they have chosen to wilfully remain ignorant by failing to consult 'experts' (us), and instead just had a wee discussion at the pub on a Friday evening about it.

    The stench of desperation from Kendall confirms, for me at least, they are not being completely transparent about their intentions.

  • Stellar
    Stellar Online Community Member Posts: 315 Pioneering

    Funding alone isnt enough. NHS mental health services are institutionally abusive and actively cause harm to mad people. This is why many young people do not engage, whether by choice or otherwise.

    its not just poverty. they're more likely to die.

  • alexroda
    alexroda Online Community Member Posts: 221 Pioneering

    She is making it all very confusing now.

    I’m completely lost now, what are the changes to PIP?

    Does it matter if you get reassessed now or in 2027?

    What happens to the new claimants?

    How can an MP vote for something that no one understands?

  • JasonRA
    JasonRA Online Community Member Posts: 296 Championing

    They seem willing to implode the Labour Party to get this rotten bill pushed through. It’s starting to look quite bizarre.

  • secretsquirrel1
    secretsquirrel1 Online Community Member Posts: 2,016 Championing

    So they’re going back on their concessions and admitting we will still fall under the 4 point rule . Meg hillier needs to accept she’s been hoodwinked into agreeing to a bill that has no concessions at all , just a delay to destitution

  • worried33
    worried33 Online Community Member Posts: 982 Championing

    Kendall has said three times now, she is trying to address the incapacity benefit high take up in previous manufacturing areas (indicating she thinks cases are not genuine), she also responded to an MP saying she doesnt believe luck is involved in becoming disabled, but actually they need to support these areas economically with high claimant rates, cant believe what I am watching.

  • worried33
    worried33 Online Community Member Posts: 982 Championing

    I think it wont matter, I expect the 2 point descriptors today to not exist on the new assessment.

  • YogiBear
    YogiBear Online Community Member Posts: 341 Empowering

    It looks like everyone who is being reassessed from November 2026 will be assessed under the 4 point descriptor. So everyone will be treated the same new/existing claimants. I believe this Green Paper consultation has been a load of nonsense. The government have done this so it looks like they are doing the right thing by disabled people.

  • JasonRA
    JasonRA Online Community Member Posts: 296 Championing
    edited June 30

    Kendall REALLY detests disabled people.

  • alexroda
    alexroda Online Community Member Posts: 221 Pioneering

    if rebels don’t stop this bill, I don’t think Liebour will get more than 200 seats in the next election.

    They are imploding

  • worried33
    worried33 Online Community Member Posts: 982 Championing
    edited June 30

    I clearly heard her say existing claimants will be on the old system. However she specifically said 2026. So still unclear what happens post timms review.

  • MadMilan2019
    MadMilan2019 Online Community Member Posts: 138 Empowering

    We need to campaign write to MPs re 4 pint reassessment, and challenge it in the courts if at all possible.

    I am going to take advice from Leeds Welfare Rights, and CAB Mind Legal unit and 5 other pro bono legal firms.

  • MadMilan2019
    MadMilan2019 Online Community Member Posts: 138 Empowering

    Somebody asked why cant PM Chancellor plus DWP misters be taken to court for incitement to hatred based on protected characteristics of disability.

    Incitement to any form of hatred (anti LGBT, disability, race) has to use violent threatening language.

    So, we need to keep campaigning writing to media outlining our case, and write to MPs, mass lobbies of Parliament etc., all the way up to the next general election in an alliance of disabled peoples organisations, to reverse these changes, if they are passed this time, and WE CAN, there are 11 million pensioners often with severe complex disabilities and 16million disabled people - if we ally with pensioners groups we can win.

    And consult lawyers and barristers re course of legal redress of injustices/ grievances.

    We need to have the determination of Mandela, the patience of Gandhi and the compassion and wisdom of Buddha.

  • Girl_No1
    Girl_No1 Online Community Member Posts: 340 Pioneering

    Kendall is all over the place, presenting all the smoke and mirrors available to her.

    She's not actively listening. She's hearing trigger words, and repeating points of rhetoric based on those words.

    The general consensus of those speaking out is: Pull this abberation of a bill, and come back with a properly consulted version.

    They are desperate to get this through as a money bill to avoid appropriate scrutiny. Once it is in they can 'amend' it at will without challenge.

    These MPs are being gaslit.

  • apples
    apples Online Community Member Posts: 527 Empowering

    Is this still being voted on tomorrow ?

  • MadMilan2019
    MadMilan2019 Online Community Member Posts: 138 Empowering

    Yes have you written emailed your MP

    Even at this late stage.

    It is still worth doing - to get even more MPs to vote against the bill.

    Activism is the antidote to despair [and anxiety, trauma, depression] Joan Boaz

    Please Google find your MP.