The Cost of Cuts
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i thought uc had 3 criteria fit for work lcw and lcwra
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My gut feeling, they will make the £3 billion savings by:-
- Making it even harder to qualify for PIP
- Stopping all disability payments except for those who qualify for PIP
£3 billion is a lot, they'll have to make deep cuts. Holds onto your hats folks
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Signed ✍️
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I read they want to do away with lcwra. Not sure how true it is. Also why are they doing away with access to work if they want disabled people to work. They used to have remploy.which Cameron got rid off making disabled people unemployed
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I read today they plan to make £5billion in cuts maybe more.
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I also read they were thinking about abolishing the LCWRA. So basically they won’t be a sickness benefit for people who can’t work. Is that even legal ? Clearly it’s a cost cutting exercise as they won’t be getting sick and disabled people into work so surely this goes against what Ellen Clifford just went to court over and won .
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Honestly I'm worried sick about it, not having money to live on. I got pets as well . Surely they can't leave us with nothing. While they next year get over a thousand pounds pay rise
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Disability news again starmer talking out of his rear again
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Reading the Independent about how Labour "could" cut anywhere from 2 to 10 billion pounds from disability orientated benefits with 5 million being a likely figure.
Their Green Paper will lay out their plans and if their plans go too far in the harshness direction then the responses to their Green Paper will be very negative, then factor in legal challenges.
I don't know where we go, my position (Sorry for being insular) is more mentally ill than physically but who is going to employ someone with CPTSD and Agoraphobia? I was talking to an Amputee who has severe arthritis on another forum and he's worried sick, he thinks he'll never reach the state pension age because they'll raise the age eligibility to 70 if not higher.
I have my mother who cares for me but there's people who have nobody who are in a much worse position with their physical/mental health.
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I try my best to stay off social media/news sites etc. Hopefully all will become clear in a few weeks time. We just have to prepare for the worst and hope for the best.
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Signed.
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@worried33 I just put my town and postcode not full address.
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I think if was town only, it would be fine, post code is too much of a pin pointer. But I guess I could put a neighbouring post code, its still enough to show the MP's area.
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Reeves claims they are targeting younger people who are 'playing the system' and wants them to get back into work and training. Her words more in tune with the Tories than with a Labour Government. The Ukraine war —nothing to do with us—and Trump's tariffs are 'to blame' she says. The wealthiest people in the UK are getting more and more wealthy and Starmer pledged he would not 'hurt them'. As if they could be 'hurt' by paying more tax. Also what they do not tell you is that billions of pounds of welfare is left unclaimed. I am deeply disillusioned with this Labour administration. I have signed the petition.
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Not really short sighted, because if on the one hand they are saying there is no money and benefits must be cut, then on the other pouring billions into Ukraine to fight an unwinnable war and with the possible outcome of WW3 then I think that is barmy. Also we are still supporting Israel with billions who have killed 50,000 children in the space of 17 months. But if you're happy in funding death and destruction that's your affair.
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"Targeting younger people" Reeves said, will Labour bar younger people from claiming incapacity related benefits? Cut Universal Credit for younger people? Place more on them to engage?
Labour don't seem to care about the Unions, their members or those who voted for them, they care about the Tories and Reform.
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If they cared about getting people into work they could invest money that is spent on bombs into training and infrastructure which would help many more young people to get a place in University and work placements and go on to have fulfilling lives. But they aren't doing that. They are going to cut the money of some of the most vulnerable people in the country, whilst the Super rich get richer. Where are all the jobs going to come from? As for Ukraine, Zelenskyy is already willing to sell out to Trump in a complete reversal from last Friday. And none of them will care about disabled folk in the UK starving to death or taking their own lives. Tax the Super Rich. That way they can still arm nations at war and still genuinely help the neediest. But Starmer wont do that. He has sold his soul to the other side. Bombs coming before our own people.
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And also the fundamental point that Reeves is hiding from everyone, or thinks she is. £140bn give or take a billion of benefits goes unclaimed every year. That is then clawed back by the Treasury. It's the great lie that benefits need to be cut.
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What needs to be cut are MP's salaries, you know they're getting a pay rise soon also, for what? After 14 miserable years of a Tory government there was an open goal for Labour to actually bring some positivity back, Labour used to stand for the workers, the vulnerable, the elderly and disadvantaged, they used to be the flipside to the Tories but now they believe that the electorate wants them to emulate the Tories and Reform who's leader came from the Thatcher school of Conservatism.
The money disabled/incapacitated people get goes back into the economy, you don't have to do economics to work that out and as Travis said where are the jobs?
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