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

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  • Stuartcarol68
    Stuartcarol68 Online Community Member Posts: 2 Listener

    thank you for your reply, hopefully it will be the same.

    It’s caused so much distress, already reeling the amount of tax they are taking 25/26 on just my pension just because I’ve given some of my allowance to my husband, they’ve wiped out his one small private pension.

    My pension is my only income, I’m worried sick they take my lifeline away.

    Will have to wait and see but the stress is causing severe mental health problems.

  • secretsquirrel1
    secretsquirrel1 Online Community Member Posts: 210 Empowering

    thank you , that’s very interesting. If I read correctly it seems according to this it’s for new claimants especially those with MH and possibly restricting to UC LCWRA . Or have I read that wrong ?

  • tomwalker
    tomwalker Online Community Member Posts: 57 Contributor

    The government have announced huge cuts and the consultation paper is not out yet even..some much for putting disabled people at the heart of the Policy..in my view what this is is a grab of disabled money under cover of helping them into work...they can't get 1.5 million ordinary folk a job so it's a nice idea but we all know there's no social care or medical help and not enough decent jobs...they are looking for a cash grab

  • Maggie37
    Maggie37 Online Community Member Posts: 14 Contributor

    This is the Joseph Rowntree foundation take on it.. sorry if it’s being posted before I’m a new member. It suggests where they might make cuts if you scroll down article

    https://www.jrf.org.uk/news/factsheet-health-related-benefit-cuts

  • Ray212
    Ray212 Online Community Member Posts: 632 Empowering

    You're hilarious.

    What "misinformation" have I "spread" then? Do you even know what you are talking about?

    I said they have frozen benefits in the past.

    And then I said time will tell

    Do tell me what this "misinformation" I have spoke of is?

    Not sure what your problem is pal

  • Andi66
    Andi66 Online Community Member Posts: 726 Pioneering

    Apparently on gmb , the journalist spoke to mps coming out of the meeting with starmer last night about pip, that no one spoke out about their concerns.

    Wonder if he threatened them with their jobs.

  • Wibbles
    Wibbles Online Community Member Posts: 2,413 Championing

    May's elections are only local government... So won't affect much....

  • secretsquirrel1
    secretsquirrel1 Online Community Member Posts: 210 Empowering

    first them it’s a choice between losing the whip now and losing their seat next election maybe ?

  • secretsquirrel1
    secretsquirrel1 Online Community Member Posts: 210 Empowering

    It still tells Starmer the depth of feelings towards him and Labour . I remember when Labour were canvassing and knocked on my door. I said I couldn’t vote for them as I didn’t trust starmer and he’s against the disabled. One guy said he’s going to help and that his mum is disabled so he wouldn’t work for labour if he thought that they were against us. I wonder what he thinks now ?

  • Community_Scope
    Community_Scope Posts: 1,688 Empowering

    Good morning,

    We have temporarily paused this discussion so we can catch up and review some of the content being posted and will reopen it as soon as possible.

    Kind regards,

    Community Team

  • Community_Scope
    Community_Scope Posts: 1,688 Empowering

    Hi all,

    We understand that tensions are high, as many of us are concerned about the potential changes to the benefit system, particularly for disabled people. We've noticed some comments that contain misinformation or are uncivil, and we will be reaching out to several members today to address this.

    We’ve also observed that there are multiple discussions on this same topic. While it’s an important issue that we want to be discussed openly, it’s equally important that this community remains a safe space for everyone, including those who may want to take a break from the topic.

    With that in mind, we have created one dedicated discussion thread to cover all conversations about the upcoming changes, especially while much of what we know is still speculation. We encourage any new discussions on the same issues to be added to this thread.

    Upcoming changes to benefits.

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