The official 2024 budget discussion.
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Governments have taken advantage of your hardships for decades and forced your family into low-paid jobs for generations - is that okay? No. This is the dark Middle Ages in modern packaging. It's horrible. This should not be the case in the 21st century. Disability is not a reason to drive a person into poverty. No matter what government, the course towards reducing assistance to the disabled is clearly visible from year to year.
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Just saw Badanoch has appointed Stride as Chancellor, guess who he be after if they get into power
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Jesus Christ. I hope they don’t get a sniff of power
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I know , what is it with these people that hate us.
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Just saw that news always, made my heart sink . Talk about being between a rock and a hard place .
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A ‘tax and spend’ budget? Not for disabled people. For us, austerity lives on.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/05/tax-and-spend-budget-disabled-people-austerity
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This was me, too. I had an indefinite DLA award, I applied for PIP when they told me to, did everything I was instructed to do, sent them lots of evidence, and they forced me to go to appeal. :/ Unfortunately changes to benefits come when the people administering the benefits decide.
Knowing that there are still many on DLA, I've always wondered if my case was shifted over at the time it was because it was right after the govt tried to tighten up on invisible disability criteria. It may have been coincidence, but there must have been a reason they tried to write up my whole case as anxiety rather than acknowledging the impact of my autism on my life.
Both the Tories and Reform UK want us out of ECHR anyway.I wish I had a lib MP. I have the same Tory we've had for years, albeit with a reduced majority.
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I think he was the architect of that scheme to replace PIP cash payments with vouchers.
Horrible man.
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He is , vile little man ,. Why he was voted back I don't know
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Stride always made me laugh, because even though he was allegedly in charge of the DWP, he showed time and time again he didn't even know how it actually worked. I can only conclude that he just sleptwalked his way through and got someone else to do his work for him, it's the only explanation for how utterly clueless he clearly was.
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I reckon Mel Stride knew what he was saying in those interviews,when talking about how PIP is an out of work benefit and we get paid thousands a month. Both of those things aren't true. A look on the DWP website,would tell you exactly what PIP is and how much you get paid.
He said those things to justify the vouchers.
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hahaha bet he would have something to say about that !
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All government should live on what we have to on benefits or state pension. See how long they last.
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maybe they should stop giving prime ministers 100k a year for the rest of there lives after they have finished the term they do
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Stride knew he definitely lied about the figures on PIP, he wanted to stir up hatred towards the disabled by thinking they are raking it in.
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people already on Lcwra.. will the new rules regarding assessments be for new applicants? Or people already on Lcwra? It’s very confusing
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What does this mean? Can anyone help
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and will it effect people who are on Lcwra? Already
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That is what the Conservative government proposed. No-one knows what Labour is planning yet.
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