The official 2024 budget discussion.

Can you not be on contribution based ESA for 24 months max ?

Thank you @Catherine21

May we all feel at ease and not have to deal with any more worrisome rhetoric. X

No idea as I am income based now.

Of course only if you have paid enough national insurance

Ok ,I must have been in work related group

not in the least they had 5000 breeding sheep kept all the bull calves for beef and grew a lot of arable crops most crop prices are agreed with the buyers the year before i am waiting to see how many get fined for driving there tractors through london on red diesel in the coming weeks

the farmers have had it rather easy since the war not a great deal of moaning getting away with putting 4 poles in the corner of a field one day then the following year there is a big shed there no planning all the subsidies about time they were hit a bit

hahaha this post made me lol

lol i meant no offence to you it just made me giggle abit :P

It would help if they weren't pushing to build on farm land. We have a couple of theorised development plans in our area which are supposedly on farm land which is not only grade 1 but also still in private hands, yet afaik they haven't removed these areas from their development plan…the infrastructure here is on its last legs and those fields are our flood plains, so it's all a bit of a mess.

I think it would be eyeopening for the people in the DWP to read through comments like the ones here, on how many of us had assessors or decision makers who didn't really attend to what was said to them or what evidence was provided, but just got details wrong.

I definitely still have trauma from that year of switching from DLA (which felt safe and helped me so much) to PIP (which feels like an ongoing war). I don't have a mental health diagnosis/disability, but that year, I was offered antidepressant medication and mental health support, because of the trauma caused by the DWP and their constant misrepresentation of my disability.

And yet, I'm one of the working disabled people, which is apparently what they want from us. Do I feel less targeted? Not in the least :/

My heart goes out for all the people also dealing with the ESA uncertainty. If they only understood how much suffering the not knowing is causing people as much as the changes :/