The official 2024 budget discussion.

Is this legal under current legislation?

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)

how often are people assessed thought Lcwra was a long term benefit? People been on it years that’s right anyone ? Just interested to see how many of you on this benefit and for how long you have been on it?

So I have fill in my ESA 50 reassessment recently, and most of my points are from want there getting rid of, so do you think when I am assessed in the coming months, they will use the new system ? If so I screwed 😢

God I hope not,

I am sure they have to use the old criteria...to change the descriptors they need Legislation..I just researched this..hopefully you'll be fine

That's not what the current Government has said.