Changes to PIP
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If they did ever try to reduce their costs - by paying "bills / receipts" from claimants rather than fixed benefits - it would very quickly ramp up their costs enormously.When you think of our extra costs - from a Gardener, through drivers, nurses, cleaners, cooks, etc - it would cost them at least double PIP benefits !2
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If (when) Labour win the next general election - one of their main pledges is to create another 40,000 doctors appointments per week - this would mean just 1 extra appointment per day in each of the 6,000 surgeries in uk
This assumes that the necessary extra doctors can be employed to fill the vacancies and they are able to work the 7 days per week that Starmer claims….
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NONE of the plans are workable, vouchers and a book, it's completely ludicrous and it will be costly to implement.
Tories want to throw red meat to their supporters and allure the Reform vote to come back to them, so they need to be seen to be taking a hardline towards benefit claimants of any stripe, they won't even commit to the Triple Lock Pension either!.
Labour I presume will enact some change but not on the same level of harshness, in my opinion and it's only an opinion that Labour will crackdown on those who are fit for work claiming benefits, as in if you don't find a job in 12 months you'll be put in a work placement course.
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I think nothing will change in regards to PIP. The Tories are desperate to remain in power and are going after an easy target to try and gain votes. It doesn't seem to be working as the rats seem to be deserting the sinking ship.
I concur with @JasonRA and I've said in a previous post on another topic, how can Sunak, Mel Stride and Jeremy Hunt lie about what PIP does? The truth is all there in black and white on gov.uk website?
Any changes would be too expensive to implement.
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thank you for your helpful comment I hope you’re right. The system leaves us constantly worried and so anxious it’s so unfair.
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A General Election is expected to be called for 4th July!! It's about time too! Time to get them out!
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probably a silly question. But can they push these PIP changes through before July 4 ?
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^I don't think so. It'll have to go through parliament, the house of Lords and get royal assent
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No…
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Plus, parliament has been dissolved as well, so nothing will be discussed. Hopefully, when parliament is resumed, it will be a new government and the proposals will be scrapped.
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Bye to Tories and good riddance after 14 yrs of inequality and injustice
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Not only do they not have time to change the law on PIP, they also might not have time to push through their bill on invading our banking privacy. It's in the Lords atm so if they delay it long enough that one might be dead too 🤞
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Hopefully the tide is truly beginning to turn against all these horrific benefit reform proposals.
Another piece of good news is that yesterday it was announced an official inquiry in to the way the DWP treats the sick/disabled has just been launched by Britains official human rights watchdog which could pave the way for future protections of the vulnerable sick/disabled in this country who claim benefits..
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yes bye bye but I don’t have no faith in labour either tbh they are all corrupt and intent on making us suffer one way or another.
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I read this article online today which makes it sound like this government are going to try and push through the new changes to PIP and UC by October this year… Are they trying to push things through very fast before the election? Is this factual ?
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They don't have the time. Read this, hopefully this should help. The consultation is still active but they do not have the parliamentary time to write a white paper and write a new law and get it through the Lords before the election.
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Also that's the Express, they are one of the nastier right wing papers who delight in winding up the rabid right voters who love to hate the disabled. I wouldn't wipe my bum with it 😉
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You should really stop reading articles like that.
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I believe that scope and other disability right groups should band together and challenge these papers legally….blatantly stating that new plans for PIP are confirmed is a lie, nothing has been confirmed, plans are in the consultation period after which they will be debated and voted on…..if a national tabloid was asked to provide the evidence to back up this so called confirmed plan they wouldn’t be able to do so as nothing exists yet.
If nothing is challenged then they will continue to write drivel
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Thank you for that
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