Upcoming changes to benefits

@HollisMcBobbery - Prison places for all!

I know it's satire. I've been reading The Guardian for many years.

"You have my word, that that there will always be a prison place for everyone". It was included in the piece btw. What Shabana Mahmood said at the dispatch box.

Just emailed my mp, about the cuts , doubt he will reply he never does. I'm on esa and get pip . So does that mean when I do get uc it will cut to nothing. I'm so worried, about bills, and I have pets. I rather starve than see them go hungry. But I pay insurance on them . My conditions won't get better. Copd also effects your heart the stress probably make my heart give out. My other conditions is genetic so again won't get better. I am on antidepressants as it is . Have ptsd ,so all this is making things worse

Ok wrote again but also apologised for writing again. I headed it as benefits & labour betrayal (god i need spellcheck)

In it i pointed in our town her constiuents have been hit by WFA cut, 2 child cap, our farmers & now this. Have said its going to kill that its better to be a independent then lose her seat at the next GE. That i became disabled in my 40's had to give medicial evidence & in person assessment to get my pip & its got zero fraud.

Also said its like the front bench want to destroy the party & that we voted for change & not more of tge same & there are already people planning the tatical votes to oust the 35mps who wrote the support letter.

Think thats it.

I agree pretty much with everything you said, I too didnt sign the Scope form, as I feel there is no need for so much personal details to be given.
Labour also have a history with deliberately misleading charities, charities were told one thing for ESA, and then another thing happened when it launched. Its difficult for a charity to recognise they are being duped I get that, but no charity should be publically approving things until they know its true, and that can only happen after the launch.
Also agree the welfare changes are central to this Labour front bench, I have the opinion a lot of this was planned even before the election. But they are not as good at hiding this stuff as the Tories, what was revealed during that Labour meeting, Kendall having the confidence to let slip and so forth. Kendall also ghosted disabled constituents pre election. We also have one of the DWP ministers going on about how the Tories ignored the benefit spending cap with all the help they provided such as cost of living payments and increases linked to inflation, LHA increase etc. Its the female minister, cant remember her name. But she made it clear Labour think all of that was wrong to do. So of course now Labour are back in power LHA got frozen again immediately, PIP frozen in 2026 (and probably will be in successive years after), as well as cuts to LCWRA component on UC, which we dont yet know size although ITV say between 25-50%.
Value of cuts in excess of double the Tory plans.
Also Labour are talking the talk about getting back to work and barriers, yet they didnt copy the Tory idea of giving LCWRA immunity to assessments if they try to do a job. Under the Labour plans, that risk is back again.
I tried to warn pre election, the appointment of Kendall, Reeves telling parliament her intentions, front bench made up of Tory lite ideologists, the horrific treatment of Corbyn, Labour's history on sickness benefits.

When they say cutting UC for people that can't work as I am claiming UC & LCWRA element will that be affected

Politics is dirty, these documentaries always happen around the time governments want to do a policy change, to soften up the public. Both the BBC and C4 can be leveraged.

The reason they did the move, is the majority of all new legislation only applies to UC, and in the long term it saves money as UC has no SDP, TP would only last temporarily until eroded away. (for myself I calculated 4 (financial) years based on expected inflation, as I migrated only a few months before April, in reality 3 years and a bit).
A lot of rules are more strict on UC as well, there is regular reviews for means testing, its easier and quicker for them to close claims, they can recover debt much faster and so on. There is also some efficiency improvements, although as I learnt recently also still some inefficiency in place.