Autumn statement 2025: How the budget will affect disabled people

I am not judging anybody, it's a known fact! There is also no harm in reassessing these youngsters and that is what is planned, if they are suffering they won't lose their benefits. If they are deemed able to work they will have to find a job. If you are on benefits the DWP are in their rights to have a check up from time to time.

The government has an obsession with the disabled and particularly the young disabled.

a shame it doesn't take such an obsessive interest in MPs who take 4 months a year off during non sitting periods, Claim ridiculous things on expenses and accidentally forget how many homes they own.

Although some claimants may have taken advantage of the covid years to get an award, and I'm sure there are a few,I really don't think it's typical and I hope they have the common sense to not send those pre pandemic claimants again, I had one in 2021 during the pandemic so they were still happening

But wasting money reassessing people who never have or will improve simply because they haven't put them in scc is expanding the phantom black hole further.

They also have a dangerous attitude by claiming some conditions are mild which really aren't in some people.

From the rightsnet site

The Telegraph posted CSJ figures using an outrageously false comparison of 2 cases (The Express did a similar piece) . It claimed a family on benefits were better off by £18k than a working household when the real figure, after I made the circumstances the same, was £16k worse off. The details at  https://benefitsinthefuture.com/

https://www.rightsnet.org.uk/forums/viewthread/21603/#100186

How does UK disability increases since lockdown compare to European countries?

The UK's increase in disability benefits claims since the lockdown has been more pronounced than in other European countries. While the UK has seen a significant rise in claims, comparable countries like France and Norway have experienced a slight decrease in claims. Denmark, on the other hand, has seen a notable increase in claims, at 13%. This trend indicates that the UK's increase in claims is a unique phenomenon, driven by a combination of factors such as the onset of the pandemic and the subsequent rise in health-related benefits spending.

Our information does not match again.... If the UK can afford the unprecedented increases in benefit spending - why are reforms imminent? The money needs to go to the NHS, mental health support, community support for disabilities etc etc.....

it certainly shows the unsustainable line isn't true, aside from being almost the lowest in amount spent, we also to the best of my knowledge are the only country consistently having the UN convention for disabled rights investigate and have a system described as showing "grave and systemic violations" in our treatment.

[Removed by moderator - Uncivil] the whole reason disabled benefits is a thing is because we are unable to go and earn the money that allows us to live any sort of life financially, if appliances broke how would we repair them or replace them, and cars like bmw are actually more reliable cars that is why many owned them, a disabled person whether physical or mental need reliable cars to get to where they need to at a moments notice, as a mental health sufferer if i did not have my car when a panic attack was gonna kick in i'd be screwed, so i have always had reliable cars and they have got me out of some serious problems in the past, and if you didn't know anyone who had cars like that on pip had to pay for them still! [Removed by moderator - Uncivil]

Everyone are Psychologically bullied and tormented ,its how they the elite control the peeps . Frightened people are easier to control .

That's a voluntary thing , if you don't want to see them in the surgery you can decline.

The other part would require a law change and many exclusions or it'd never pass into law at all.

Yes I'm sure, he first said that quote to the BBC in September, again to the work and pensions committee and yesterday again at an event he attended to the guardian and others there. it's also on a benefits and work article and a disability news service article.

he said he's not ruling anything in or out.

the GP thing is voluntary and can be self referral or by others.

to make anything legally non voluntary it requires legislation and would require exclusions of vulnerable groups.

Not being funny, I have seen that you have to be working with a work coach also. I just don't think it will be messing about next year with McFadden and Timms. They have to do this as we all know. And be seen to be doing it by working people especially.