Disability Benefit Cuts - Take action before July 9th.

The Bill has cleared all stages through the Commons. The third reading is over. The government won, despite concessions.

So as a money bill does that mean the Lords will have no say?

I see, thanks for the explanation. Ah yes, our great democracy where an MP can be punished for ‘voting the wrong way’…🤦‍♀️

I’m feeling pretty hopeless at the moment, is there anything else that can be done to stop these cuts and changes from happening or are they inevitable now?

Exhausting

I'm in the group who do not trust Timms one inch.

His statement around the inclusion of the word 'constantly' was worrying. He mumbled about it not being a change. It is a change.

What Timms implied when he said, paraphrasing here, the constantly element will only apply to the task attempted when a person with a severe condition is in a regression phase of their condition i.e. in regression they will be constantly unable to complete a task.

I think most conditions are variable to greater/lesser degrees. It seems to me Timms is cherry-picking the conditions he considers to be variable, and will be applying the 'constantly' requirement to all other conditions, which very few people, if any, will meet.

For myself, for example, I can leave home once in a while with someone with me. Even less frequently, I can go out to, say, an ATM on my own when the roads are empty or I can go to my local butcher when he opens at 6:30am and no-one is around. That means I am not constantly unable to leave home whenever I attempt to do so - which is I am unable 99% of the time I attempt to do so, but not constantly unable.

In short, I believe the use of the word 'constantly' was deliberate, and will be taken literally by assessors under DWP instruction. If it were not deliberate, they would have used 'consistently', rather than 'constantly'.

His statement around co-production was even worse, imo. Rather than confirm every participant in the review would have the right of veto, he said the Review would operate on a basis of consensus. That means the make-up of the Review Committee will be key in this. If it's top-heavy with compliant Labour MPs they will ride roughshod over our representatives.

I feel just about everything he says is said with a forked-tongue, and MPs walked into his trap.

Yep exactly, just a play on words as I wrote when I hammered my keyboard earlier 😁

Hi Dav1d ,

Does this mean as long as you fit the descriptor criteria you’re eligible for scc for pip and lcwra and you don’t have to have symptoms constantly but most of the time ?

I think we need to record every assessment so they know they can’t lie . Don’t even rely on them recording as they played a trick on me last time.