Upcoming changes to benefits

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  • bench
    bench Online Community Member Posts: 129 Empowering

    I feel this was their plan all along to back down on the pip freeze, so your general public, don't think they being so harsh on disabled people, but in reality they're being duped , as has be mentioned the pip increase is worth about £40 a year, its the change of criteria to both pip and wca , and their hoping you general Joe, will not look to much more into it, and just read the headlines government back down on disabled benefit cut

  • ancojo
    ancojo Online Community Member Posts: 30 Contributor

    Stupid typos!

  • secretsquirrel1
    secretsquirrel1 Online Community Member Posts: 674 Championing

    this must be challenged in court surely. It’s far worse than the Tory green paper.

  • tcellmutation
    tcellmutation Online Community Member Posts: 339 Empowering

    I'm pretty sure they haven't said much about people that physically can't work as they want this to be the headline when announcing the cuts. People that can't work won't have benefits cut. This in their minds will soften the general public backlash / outcry

  • Naz4
    Naz4 Online Community Member Posts: 41 Contributor

    Before my health issues started (head on car crash with drunk driver then a year later randomly assaulted on street by a drunk resulting in head injury) I studied Economics, so can see how the bill is rocketing, and how a government would want to control. However, I've not heard once what the government think is causing it. Cuts to fuel allowance, assisted dying, advance from 28/29 to now for ESA to UC transition, and now this, it sounds like a conspiracy theory that the government actively want to attack the vulnerable, but unfortunately they seem completely serious.

  • secretsquirrel1
    secretsquirrel1 Online Community Member Posts: 674 Championing

    will the work coaches take full responsibility for us if things go wrong ? If they scrap the WCA and it’s up to work coaches what we can do what training will they have ?

  • secretsquirrel1
    secretsquirrel1 Online Community Member Posts: 674 Championing

    they seem completely clueless. They’re just copying the Tory’s as they’ve no new ideas of their own

  • tommy25
    tommy25 Online Community Member Posts: 21 Listener

    Hello there I just this month be award pip for Daly living and mobility Daly low mobility high IV not even had my 1st payment yet and my Daly was given to me for my mental health issues but I see on the news today about they going to cut people with mental health issues and as my payment is set for the 31 of march and they having a meeting on the 23 of march could I lose my 1st payment and the 4 years they just awarded for? Please put my mind to rest on this as it s was a long and stressful time just to get approved just to have it took away before it even as began

  • tommy25
    tommy25 Online Community Member Posts: 21 Listener

    Hello there I just this month be award pip for Daly living and mobility Daly low mobility high IV not even had my 1st payment yet and my Daly was given to me for my mental health issues but I see on the news today about they going to cut people with mental health issues and as my payment is set for the 31 of march and they having a meeting on the 23 of march could I lose my 1st payment and the 4 years they just awarded for? Please put my mind to rest on this as it s was a long and stressful time just to get approved just to have it took away before it even as began

  • bench
    bench Online Community Member Posts: 129 Empowering
  • geckobat
    geckobat Online Community Member Posts: 74 Contributor

    LCWRA is all I have. If this happens, I'm screwed. I'm so tired of all this.

  • Ranald
    Ranald Online Community Member Posts: 983 Championing

    The Guardian isn't behind a paywall. Subscription is free.

  • Natureico
    Natureico Scope Member Posts: 46 Empowering
    edited March 16

    Plan to freeze PIP disability benefits may be dropped

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy9dgwe1q27o

  • Natureico
    Natureico Scope Member Posts: 46 Empowering

    Big push back by Labour MP's against Rachel Reeves's impending, savage disability cuts.

    Looks like Reeves is having to row back on the PIP Freeze ☺️

  • geckobat
    geckobat Online Community Member Posts: 74 Contributor

    Was the plan the whole time to have something to u-turn on, as in the PIP freeze, so they can say they did something good while they continue to go through with the worse parts of these cuts?

  • stephen6405
    stephen6405 Online Community Member Posts: 30 Connected

    I get the contribution bases esa at 138 a week are they planning on taking the 40 a week away I have a neurological condition or is the cuts only for people on universal credit income based

  • Stop_cutting_us
    Stop_cutting_us Online Community Member Posts: 9 Connected

    They are using the pip freeze "u turn" as an easy method to fool people into thinking they're not going to bring in cuts. The freeze to pip inflation only added upto £30-£40 Cuts in future 2026 payments. The cuts to LCWRA are far worse it could be upto 34% if not more cuts it could be -£128 a month or if its cut entirely thats the full £416 gone per month! They will change the criteria and force people off LCWRA and PIP!

  • Natureico
    Natureico Scope Member Posts: 46 Empowering

    Maybe its time for disabled people to take to the streets on mass demonstrations against Rachel Rubbish and Starmegeddon's ransacking of the disability benefit system !

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