March 26th and Green Paper Mega Discussion (ITV leaks, etc)

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  • hass
    hass Online Community Member Posts: 201 Empowering

    HI ALL

    hope your all well.

    I've received an email from

    Pip Reasonable Adjustment Customer Communication

    I'm a bit confused usually

    They send a password and

    User name to open .

    Has anyone had this issue

    Thank you

  • pinkrose
    pinkrose Online Community Member Posts: 93 Empowering

    I'm shocked after reading that the reforms and cuts will not have to go through legislation.

    I'm even more stressed now because this means they can bring these cuts in immediately if they wish. I feel physically sick.

  • ThirtySixteen
    ThirtySixteen Online Community Member Posts: 29 Connected

    This is certainly worth a read.
    https://publiclawproject.org.uk/latest/high-court-victory-for-plp-client-over-dwp-consultation-on-disability-benefit-reforms/

  • ThirtySixteen
    ThirtySixteen Online Community Member Posts: 29 Connected

    Sorry but any welfare reforms do need legislation. They needs the green paper, white paper ans Royal Ascent.
    That’s without any legal challenges etc…

    What they are talking about is probably the PIP freeze which doesn’t need legislation as long as it’s justified.

  • neil12345
    neil12345 Online Community Member Posts: 37 Connected

    Omg hope ur wrong? I'd be happy with another 3 year award before it stops my advice if u can save half your monthly pip that's what I'm gonna do if get awarded I'm review save save save

  • Ranald
    Ranald Online Community Member Posts: 753 Championing
    edited March 10

    It would be great if saving was an option for me. As things stand, I am thinking about taking my Motability car back early, as I can barely afford my daily expenses.

  • Ray212
    Ray212 Online Community Member Posts: 632 Empowering

    Me too, I didn't sleep at all last night. All the talk of green papers etc but that article says cuts don't need require new legislation. Made me feel quite sick

  • Ray212
    Ray212 Online Community Member Posts: 632 Empowering
  • Ranald
    Ranald Online Community Member Posts: 753 Championing
    edited March 10

    We can all get a job as a work coach - £24K to £26K pa. How hard can it be to sanction people you don't like the look of? (Joking)

  • Ray212
    Ray212 Online Community Member Posts: 632 Empowering

    Sorry but they have frozen benefits before, for 4 years. They can freeze it again

  • Ranald
    Ranald Online Community Member Posts: 753 Championing

    I would be more concerned with them being removed than frozen! We shall have to hang on to hear what the green paper says.

  • secretsquirrel1
    secretsquirrel1 Online Community Member Posts: 217 Empowering

    Does anyone know what was said in Ellen Clifford’s zoom meeting ? I read on YouTube the cuts are expected to catastrophic.

  • Ranald
    Ranald Online Community Member Posts: 753 Championing

    I don't know about any zoom meetings, but I do believe (my opinion) that much of the public support cuts to social security.

  • Ranald
    Ranald Online Community Member Posts: 753 Championing

    I certainly won't hold my breath, waiting for a public outcry.

  • Ranald
    Ranald Online Community Member Posts: 753 Championing

    We don't have anything concrete yet, still alot of 'leaks' and supposition. It isn't easy, I too am concerned.

  • Verity123
    Verity123 Online Community Member Posts: 14 Connected

    Good morning everyone,

    I very rarely get political, but I seem to remember this Government saying that this 'Black Hole' that has been inherited would be filled by those with the broadest shoulders!

    It turns out that those with the broadest shoulders are pensioners and the disabled!

    Look forward now to a few weeks of the Government gaslighting the 'able bodied tax payer' through the media about 'predictions' of what 'their' contributions 'could' be to the welfare bill in 5 years time!

    I hope Scope are all over this?

  • Ranald
    Ranald Online Community Member Posts: 753 Championing

    Some members of the public support any cuts to social security. HMG seem determined to chase potential Reform voters. We are not a priority for them, sadly.

  • Verity123
    Verity123 Online Community Member Posts: 14 Connected

    I'm old enough to remember being demonised by Thatcher's government, then Cameron! I never thought it would be a Labour government, that I voted for, who would resort to such tactics in the media!

    We have been constantly told of a £22B black hole that needs filling, for which no proof has ever been given! Now I am constantly seeing graphs, on TV and social media, showing a welfare bill reaching £100B in 2030! This is at best a 'foreceast' and probably draws a lot of data from hospital waiting lists, but it is being portayed and discussed in the media as a 'fact'!

    This has to stop, this number is being used in the same way as the fictious 'black hole', by a government trying to swing the populist view in it's favour!

    This coverage is pure gaslighting in every sense of the word!

  • secretsquirrel1
    secretsquirrel1 Online Community Member Posts: 217 Empowering

    people need to realise that anyone can suddenly have a life changing accident or condition .

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