Upcoming changes to benefits

Please, please don’t apologise! You didn’t say anything wrong at all, and your sense of humour is great ;)

I’m autistic so I struggle to read tone, but I absolutely wasn’t trying to be rude there and I’m so sorry if it came across that way! I’m just so incandescently angry with this government and their spineless MPs (bar the ones who are actually giving an F about our rights to exist.) And I’m tired of mental illnesses being diminished in general. But I know that’s not what you were doing and again I’m so sorry if it came over like I was insinuating you were!

I think a lot of it is also exploitation by the media. I keep seeing articles staying nonsense like “mum of six claims £3k in benefits a month is NOT ENOUGH” when in reality it’s a vulnerable disabled person who is genuinely struggling (and is likely on that much from enhanced PIP, being in a couple, having kids etc.) But the media take advantage of these people who have real concerns and publish them with the intent of making them seem like scroungers wasting hard earned tax. And then folk see these headlines and decide that mindset is true and they’re personally paying us to sit about watching tv all day (which is sometimes how I spend the day, because I’m too fatigued to do anything else or my paranoia is too bad to leave the house, and believe me I’d rather be up and about!)

Sorry for that slightly off topic rant! I also just wanted to say that you have been through so much, and I’m so sorry to hear that. Your experiences and illnesses are valid, and I know that’s a given and also sounds cliched but I feel like sometimes it’s good to be reminded, even if by a stranger, considering everything we’re hearing about ourselves right now. You are stronger than these weak-willed cowardly politicians ever will be! We all are. We should never forget or doubt that.

it’s a rollercoaster Catherine . And they know they’re causing suffering. Psychopaths all of them especially Starmer . Who’s taking Starmer to court ? I haven’t heard anything about that . Who’s fifi ? Glad her bloods came back good . Anything medical is such a worry.

I think I’m going to email my MP, but I read last night that he voted for WFA cuts. (Even though there’s a lot of deprivation in my constituency. But who cares about the vulnerable right.)

There is no LCW component on UC, its a classification but doesnt add extra money, so LCW will be bumped the same as base I assume.

But it will be a negative for a lot of people on LCWRA too.
For instance we were FORCED to move over to UC and as such we were awarded the transitional protection of £420.
Then, we were awarded LCWRA and got the disabled element of £416. This ate up all but £4 of the transitional element. That’s fair enough.

But if they take it then we will be £416 worse off after being FORCED over to UC.

Surely this can’t be legal.

Surely they should've done that from the beginning?

They're basically acknowledging that they threw these plans together without even considering the effect they would have on vulnerable claimants.

They're doing the same exact thing the Tories did - throwing together plans with no regard for the effect they will have for the sole purpose of winning favour with voters. Except its not working out so well for them.

My current MP is IDS so that is a non starter but is seems that Labour 's paymaster The TUC aren't happy...