The official 2024 budget discussion.

Is the continence descriptor being changed?? I thought that was going to remain? We'll won't know the nitty gritty until next year.

Thank you for your answer. I am sure I'm in support group as I've never needed a fit note from my gp. I watched Sunaks response to the budget, made mi sick his words what a hideous person. Regards

I see sickness benefit is in the media costing £100bn by 2030. They focusing on mental health and if people really have it. The trouble is I hope the government don't jump on the band wagon and start cutting it

Where can you find the information about which descriptors are being altered?

Here..I believe they will target new claimants..reassessment or if you report a change..the descriptors being removed ate listed in the article

https://www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2024/10/30/dwp-wca-changes-autumn-budget/

Hi Andii,

We fight it any way we can Andii, we've an uphill struggle as a large number of people are convinced now that a lot of us are skivers. They don't understand what it means to be disabled and how it affects you. Notice even Labour are using this trick, Reeves was saying the budget was for the "strivers", a hark back to Osborne's speech on "strivers not the skivers".

So we need to change public opinion. How? Get news coverage on TV and in the press. An army of us on Twitter. Get involved in campaign groups like Disability Rights. We could start petitions (best if headed by someone like Scope rather than individuals). Lobby sympathetic celebrities, and most effective of all, stage sit-ins outside Downing Street.

When public opinion swings behind us, they'll back down. It's a long haul I know, but I think our only chance… They've shown how hard they can be with the warm homes allowance. They won't back down once they've done it. So Scope, what's first action?

Don't know if anyone has posted about this:

The Big Issue article on bank accounts

https://www.bigissue.com/news/social-justice/dwp-bank-accounts-benefit-fraud-crackdown/

Yes very likely they'll do this for LWCRA but many of us have been downgraded to LCW (still expected to do work related activity even though too disabled to work). I suspect those of us with just LCW will still be reassessed under the new medical assessment. I think it's something like only 10% of disabled are recognised as LCWRA (but correct me if I'm wrong)

I read somewhere the last couple of days they're planning to make savings by removing somewhere like 450,000 disabled off the additional disability benefits, by the end of this parliament (ie by 2028)