The official 2024 budget discussion.
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She told the Commons: “Today, I am also taking three steps to ensure that welfare spending is more sustainable.“First, we inherited the last government’s plans to reform the work capability assessment. We will deliver those savings as part of fundamental reforms to the health and disability benefits system that the Work and Pensions Secretary (Liz Kendall) will bring forward.
So, essentially, a complete non-statement that could mean either "we're doing the tory's plans" or "we're not doing the Tory's plans" without actually committing to either.
Great. About what I expected from labor, back to anxiously waiting for them to actually give any details I guess.
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If they're going ahead with the Conservative plans (which is what they've briefed to the press and Reeves seems to have confirmed), then for existing claimants nothing will change until 2028/29 even if you're reassessed, the changes to the WCA will be for new claimants only until that time. We'll know more when Liz Kendall releases her white paper.
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Thank you
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Scope will be releasing a statement later today, so I'll post it here as soon as I hear anything.
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The 'savings' had already been baked into the figures. What remains is the specifics of the reform - our state of limbo persists.
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Where is this written? I've only seen them say "new claimants and those who have a change of circumstances or a reassessment"
I haven't had a WCA since 2018 so I'm definitely due one. Surely they have to apply the new rules to all WCAs, not just to new claimants? I thought they'd said that they expect ALL claimants to be under the new rules BY 2028/9. I'll be very happy to be corrected because that will give me a few more years. I won't last long once the changes kick in.
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Just heard sunak tear into reeves about not cutting welfare and making disabled work. So unsure what she meant then
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What the hell does Sunak want? A paranoid schizophrenic to work as a junior chef? It's Sunak who needs an assessment.
I won't rant but I will ask this question, why have Conservative types got against Disabled people? What is their problem? I will warn these people if they visit this site that if you force someone seriously mentally ill into a place of work they might become a risk to themselves and to the people around them and if anything were to happen it would be on Sunak, it would be on Mel Stride, The Sun, the Telegraph, GB News and the Daily Mail's hands.
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I wouldn't be surprised to see them tie LCWRA to PIP, especially if they plan to restrict eligibility for PIP. This will present a less harsh face than simply scrapping the substantial rule eligibility, although the effect will still be the same for those of us at thw sharp end, it will look better for them. How do they sleep at night.
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Amending SDP transitional protection regulations? **** does that mean?
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These changes to the WCA will apply to new claims for ESA and to UC claimants who report a health condition and require an assessment.
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These changes will mean that almost all people who are currently assessed as having LCWRA will never face a WCA reassessment again. Reassessments will only take place under very limited circumstances, which are:
- When a claimant reports a change of circumstances in their health condition;
- If a claimant has been awarded LCWRA for pregnancy risk, or cancer treatment where the prognosis for recovery is expected to be short-term;
- If a claimant has been declared as having LCWRA under the new risk provisions; and
- In cases of suspected fraud.
However as others are rightly pointing out we don't know if Labour will follow these reforms precisely, just that they plan to match the Tory 'savings'. So we're still at least partially in the dark. I personally think Reeves confirmed they will be sticking with the Conservative reforms but other opinions are available.
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