Sdp problem!!

Hi hope all are ok.

Something has been bothering me for past few days and I got a pen and paper and a calculator out to do some figures and the results were shocking.

Most of us on esa and sdp were being paid £240.55 a week which is £481.10 for the fortnight which it pays in.

that is a difference of £81.50 per week and £163 per fortnight difference to anybody that’s receiving just esa on its own. ESA being £159.05 per week and £318.10 per fortnight on its own without Sdp premium.

The thing that’s bugging me is that’s an extra £326 per month we were getting by being eligible to Sdp which was and is a massive help.

It’s £3912 extra a year

£19560 5 years 

And £39120 10 years (not factoring in increases with inflation that would have made 5 years and 10 year figures even higher)

Now all of a sudden being forced to move to UC which has no premiums, yes I know about transitional protection but put that aside for now.

We are just suppose to bend over and accept that this is just the case now and nothing can be done about it?

I haven’t heard of any replacement things in the pipeline to replace this lost money, if anything only been hearing it will get worse.

as you can see from the figures above it’s a lot we are losing.

And what makes the people in charge of all this think we can just have no problem with this?