Cuts To Pip Still?

charlie72
charlie72 Online Community Member Posts: 259 Pioneering
in PIP, DLA, ADP and AA

Iv'e just read on Yahoo news online (if it's true) that Starmer and Kendall are still wanting to cut pip benefits after the Timms review is over this time next year. Has anyone else heard anything about this as I thought they'd dropped those plans when the other cuts were pushed through parlianment. It seems to never end all this benefits cuts saga, they seem hellbent on still targeting disabled people, even witht he backlash they got recently trying to cut pip.

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  • KG100
    KG100 Online Community Member Posts: 298 Empowering

    I've noticed it's starting to appear on some online websites again.

    I'm not sure if it's official though or just the same old news being rolled out again.

    I don't think anything will change untill next years review.

  • luvpink
    luvpink Online Community Member Posts: 3,052 Championing
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1065044#Comment_1065044

    Its best to wait until the official government announcement in the autumn and stop reading speculative online posts.

  • Mary_Scope
    Mary_Scope Posts: 2,774 Scope Online Community Children and Family Specialists

    A lot of the articles that are going around are full of click bait, fear mongering and just misinformation at the moment.

    Nothing official has been said so its best to wait until the official Government announcements as LuvPink said

  • Trevor_PIP
    Trevor_PIP Online Community Member Posts: 454 Empowering

    I doubt anything will be done until after the Timms Review. We need to see the result of that.

  • Albus_Scope
    Albus_Scope Posts: 11,423 Scope Online Community Coordinator

    The UKs budget is split into different "pots" so the military's budget will be completely separate from the benefits budget @GrahamN.

  • OverlyAnxious
    OverlyAnxious Online Community Member Posts: 5,116 Championing
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1065132#Comment_1065132

    Why are you guessing that? You'll be better off on UC than ESA if you don't get SDP now. And if you do get SDP, you'll get Transitional Protection to bring UC up to exactly the same amount as you had before.

    DLA isn't the same as PIP. They are two different benefits. Neither of them are linked to UC though, so whichever one you get won't change during your migration to UC.

    The only thing you could have to pay more for is council tax. Because some councils are choosing to calculate benefit income differently for council tax reduction. That has nothing do with the DWP and is completely area dependent.

  • OverlyAnxious
    OverlyAnxious Online Community Member Posts: 5,116 Championing
    edited September 6
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1065282#Comment_1065282

    Transitional Protection is not time limited. It does erode over time, which means your benefits won't increase each April for example, but you will never get less money than you do right now.

    Housing Benefit is replaced by Housing Element within UC. Most people get exactly the same money on HE as they did on HB.

    This is the legislation on Transitional Protection for SDP.

    158_Severe_Disability_Premium.pdf

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