Upcoming changes to benefits

About cutting LCRWA "extra":

https://neweconomics.org/2025/03/government-is-concealing-the-true-scale-of-benefit-cuts-for-ill-and-disabled-people

Yeah timing is important, waiting until its new legislation is too late. I think once its clearer whats happening, if it comes out in the green paper I might be in the nothing to lose category and be prepared to be a plaintiff. If I cant live anymore independently thats it for me.
What we have to bear in mind here is this policy change has cross party support, I also think the house of lords in general support it as well, when things get watered down is usually when there is enough opposition to risk losing a vote. But in this case both Labour and the Tories will be like for like on it. The Tories might possibly oppose the PIP freeze but that would be it. But even if they do remember Labour has a behemoth of a majority and the PIP freeze is like the icing on the cake, it isnt the filling.

I think the freeze being unfrozen if that satisfies the Labour MP's they have been duped, the LCWRA deduction and the descriptor changes are the nastiest part of the changes. My expectation is that was there to provide a short term benefit for the OBR, as the PIP eligibility changes will take multiple years to filter through, and once the proper cuts via eligibility have progressed enough PIP would be unfrozen.
It feels like when we had the PIP consultation everyone was talking about vouchers (likely only put there as a distraction) instead of all the eligibility proposals.

I thought Labour would be the least worst compared to the Tories or Reform, I was wrong. Starmer and Co have lost the plot and clearly don't care. On this subject they make Reform look moderate.

There's method to Labour's madness if you look at the bill flying under the radar, the Euthanasia bill which is being watered down by the way.

I will be surprised if Labour win the next election, at worst a coalition with the lib dems.

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If the poorest constituencies in the country abandon them, Labour would be lucky to survive let alone win. This isn't just cruel and vindictive, it's electoral suicide.

I don't think they 'think' much at all. Hence the Green paper delay last week and the bizarre leak to The Times today. None of this seems even slightly thought through. Suspect that RR will actually end up implementing the tax rises she is so desperately trying to avoid and, quite possibly, become 'our first female ex-chancellor' sometime after that.

A 25% reduction on LCWRA component, is still higher than the old income related ESA. In fact they could get away with 45% cut and alot of people would be back to where we started. What I don't understand is why push though this change over if they were going to take the money back?

I’ve decided I’m going to email every MP in Scotland (all 57 of them.) Maybe pointless, but if even one pro-mass murder pro-cuts politician reads it and thinks about it, that’s enough.

I’ve written out one and I’m just going to copy it to all. I went VERY personal in it and talked about a lot of my difficulties, but I’m using a burner email of course. I hope that hearing someone’s personal experience makes them think a bit. I don’t expect responses but I feel like I HAVE to do something.

Is the Trussell Trust petition the main one? I’m going to post it all over Facebook and Instagram and urge everyone I know to sign and share it.

In the times article, it says this:

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/one-million-britons-disability-benefits-cut-s5kj0z7fc

"However, Tom Pollard of the New Economics Foundation think tank said: “There has been concern within government that the rise in the PIP caseload is being driven in part by more people claiming for less severe mental health problems and neurodevelopmental conditions like autism and ADHD. It therefore seems likely that any changes to the assessment criteria to reduce the number of new claims would target this group.”

I also saw another article the other day that said PIP would stop for autism and ADHD.

The gov seems to be targeting invisible disabilities. Seems like they think mental health and neurodevelopmental aren't disabilities… Good luck to them being taken to court over that. They can't just divide us all.