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

From "The I" 10th March 2025 12:03 PM:

A freeze to personal independence payments (PIP) in 2026 could cost some claimants more than £350 a year, analysis shows.

The Government is planning to unveil more than £6bn of welfare savings this week, which could include a decision not to increase PIP in line with inflation from April next year.

Typically, PIP payments are uprated annually in line with the previous September’s Consumer Prices Index (CPI) inflation reading.

The payments are made to those who have a long-term health condition or disability that causes them difficulty in doing certain everyday tasks or getting around.

A freeze to the benefit during a year when inflation is set to be well above the Bank of England’s 2 per cent target will mean claimants get less money in real terms than they otherwise would have.

There are different rates for PIP depending on a person’s condition and there is a daily living and mobility component.

Someone getting the enhanced rate for both components can currently receive a total of £184.30 per week – £108.55 a week for daily living and £75.75 a week for mobility.

This is due to rise to £187.45 per week – £110.40 and £77.05 for each component – from April this year, in line with last year’s inflation figure which was 1.7 per cent.

So, the Green Paper is hitting this week.

Quite right, They are disgusting. It's hard to live with these conditions, and they have the nerve to do this . Reeves net worth is 2 million, plus they are getting over a thousand pounds pay increase next year

There doesn't seem to be much support from the charities at the moment Chris.

They aren't shouting loud enough, some are not shouting at all.

We need them behind us...so this is very disappointing.

We had a couple of words from James Taylor at scope but that's been it...

Thank God for people like ellen clifford.

The problem is we need at least some public support like the pensioners, although little help that support did in the end! But the public seem to be very much in favour of this, not helped by the Governments gaslighting.

Can I suggest some sort of protest in London!

Why don't we roll down the streets of central London and slow up the traffic in our wheelchairs, like the farmers have done with their tractors!

C'mon whose up for it, no point sitting on our laptops whinging about this, we need to actually do something!!

so they want to save £6b a year when the Tory plan was 1.5-2billion which meant a loss of £400 per month for LCWRA . That was found unlawful so how can they quickly push this through as they’ve apparently stated they will? Surely this still has to go to the House of Lords and probably court not to mention the ECHR ? I read somewhere that there are 9 million unemployed including over 2miliion sick disabled . The fact that they’re concentrating on us instead of the healthy job seekers proves it’s a money saving exercise which the judge said was unlawful if I remember correctly. Hope that all makes sense as my brains in melt down right now .

Unfortunately that is just not practical for a lot of us.

Great in principle but unfortunately many of us can't get to the end of our street or even leave the house, let alone travel hundreds of miles to protest. If I could, I would probably be able to work. Instead I am so scared and don't know what to do.

Then with the greatest of respect we're all f*cked and may as well start getting used to it!

Maybe the Government right, we all need a kick up the ar*se!!

Very sad, good bye everyone, this thread is just full of preachers preaching to the converted!!

in this article it says,

‘Liz Kendall, the work and pensions secretary, is expected to set out plans next week that will abolish the highest level of disability benefit, under which jobseekers can double their income if they are signed off unfit for any work.’

Is LCWRA being fully abolished? I thought it was being cut a bit rather than completely got rid of?