The Universal Credit Bill becomes law. Here are the changes to disability benefits you need to know

@Albus_Scope @Catherine21 Mr John Pring is an excellent disabled journalist. Respectfully, his news article you are quoting does not refer to Stephen Timms at all .

John Pring clearly states in the article (unaltered)- “the lead disability minister for the Treasury, Lord [Spencer] Livermore – who   leads on welfare policy for the Treasury and was director of strategy for Gordon Brown when he was prime minister – failed to put in a single appearance.”

While every MSM smears disabled people as scroungers and drain on the welfare system, John is the only person who speaks truth and his relentless work in exposing several truths and pushing for ongoing inquiries of deaths of several claimants by DWP is commendable.
please let’s show some gratitude for his excellent journalism.

Thank you 🙏

Reading more articles saying job centre to contact all on lwcra to engage in preparing for work? Is that why want all over to UC

Well I hope they don't contact me as I am worse now than when I got awarded LCWRA, my mobility is worse because of neuropathy from robotic hysterectomy , I can't even sit for long and I doubt any job is available for someone to lie down all day (sounds bad) that 😂

Seriously I couldn't work and I am 62 next year . I just want to be left alone to enjoy a bit of life after an extremely traumatic four years . Cancer and I lost my house and now live in social housing , but I have to say it is better here as I don't have to worry about repossession .

So I just hope they leave me alone .

I honestly don't see their logic. If it's voluntary, does it mean it wasn't voluntary before(mandatory?). If that's the case why voluntary now? And if it is voluntary why would they need highly paid staff to talk to people about looking for work? What have the lesser paid staff been doing all these years? Crosswords, ludo, playing snakes and ladders perhaps? What's voluntary about it anyway. Do they mean I can approach the jobcentre voluntary without them threatening me in some way or do they mean I can have the pleasure of going to the jobcentre, talking to one of their newly highly paid staff and being coerced into doing voluntary work? I imagine the employers are rubbing their hands at that. By the way, how does creating 1000 new highly paid jobs, save money. I remember them doing the same thing with atos employees.

OOh god this why the big push to go on uc how many times can you say no 12 times every year

The press release says:

The offer is voluntary and will be made to LCWRA claimants via their Universal Credit journal with tailored appointments taking place monthly.

Appointments taking place monthly if someone accepts the offer, not monthly Journal messages offering help is my interpretation.

No one talking about Liz kendell getting sack

Its the lack of trust in the government for me but my attitude is i will wait and see im not making myself sick like I did before god I was shaking in my bed awful just awful one day at a time keep manifesting postcode lottery .....

If you're in LCWRA and you accept the offer of help and go to the job centre it could go against you at your next WCA and you may be put into LCW, as LCWRA is supposed to mean you're not well enough to be going to the job centre and discussing work or what things you could do to move you closer to being able to work.

I would be very, very careful.

If the DWP starts contacting me once a month with these offers every time I get a text telling me to go onto my UC account is going to really, really scare me because for all I know it could be to tell me that I've got a WCA. I'm going to be feeling like I'm constantly living on a knife edge, this is just going to make my mental health worse.

It's bizarre that they're doing this as LCWRA means exactly what it means which is you're not well enough to go to the JC for work related activity, what next ballet classes for people in wheelchairs?