Upcoming changes to benefits
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Yes.. definitely a ‘don’t prod the bear’episode. McSweeny, Pat McFadden and Mandelson all have working history together.. so you begin to see the ‘Figurehead’ nature of Starmer and Reeves. That doesn’t mean these back room guys got it right though. After all Cumming’s day in the sun was relatively short and meaningless. I hope my own day in sun proves relaxing and yours.👍
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Hi everyone. I'm a new user that found myself here due to constant searching for information regarding the disability cuts. I'm 49 and diagnosed paranoid schizophrenic, I currently receive DLA, Contributions based ESA and Universal Credit which is reduced to accommodate for the ESA. I'm frantically trying to work out a budget to get my finances in order before any legislation is passed, hopefully these changes won't be immediate. It's the not knowing that is cripling.
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One more thing from Kuenssberg’s show:
She had shadow education sec Laura Trott on, they spoke about schools etc but then Trott was asked about Labour reforms:
Trott is next asked if she will support Labour's proposals to cut welfare benefits.She says "let's see what they come forward with", adding "we support the principle of welfare reform".Asked by Laura if she supports the freezing of Personal Independence Payments (PIP), Trott repeats her comment that she wants to see what Labour puts forward.Surprise surprise… blue Tories supporting red Tories!
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TThankyou for sharing so it's good seems our emails been listened too keep sending guys john mc donell amazing guy
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Following Dr Jay Watts's advice on Twitter, it's probably best to mute keywords relating to these reforms. Benefits, DWP, PIP and LCWRA.
Regarding Youtube, i'm not sure how to reset the algorithm, so that no related videos pop up on my homepage. Any advice would be appreciated.
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Adjusting your watch history should work:
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Does Ellen or the group she worked with have contact details? as I want to get in touch, curious why the PIP consultation wasnt challenged, because if that also is ruled illegal I think would stop the eligibility changes or force them to do a new consultation.
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Sadly thats only the freeze, the real and damaging cut on eligibility will still probably go ahead. The freeze might lose someone say £10 a week, a eligibility change would lose them everything as they wouldnt qualify.
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Had similar years back I handed my notice in boss was really belittling me and bullying so I lost my mind harassed her round the clock phome calls the lot got arrested I'm a good person but like millions when my mental health pushed I'm like a caged tiger they really need to do a risk assessment on all of us and it could lead to big health and safety issues how are you feeling today
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yes I’d like to know what Ellen thinks about all this and whether she plans legal action. I imagine she has to wait for the green paper release. There is a video of her talking about the court case on YouTube. I think she mentions to possible cuts .
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Yeah the disabled community gets duped very easily, sorry to say.
The eligibility change is by far the worst out the lot as the cuts are focused on a limited set of people who lose "ALL" their support. This will be the cream of their plans and there is no news on that being dropped.
Next biggest is the LCWRA cut as its not a freeze its an actual cut in the headline amount. People who lose PIP whilst also getting the LCWRA cut will be mulled to death. Also this is particularly bad for those who dont also get PIP.
The PIP freeze is an easy thing to drop, as it only had short term effect, the LCWRA and PIP eligibility are the big problems with long term consequences.3 -
Have the same suspicion myself.
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Its very misleading its just the PIP freeze. not the eligibility changes.
Freeze doesnt matter if you no longer qualify. As you getting nothing.
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surely it can be fought in court ? Ellen Clifford won her case and the Tory green paper wasn’t as bad as this .
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Deleting my search history, seems to have done the trick. My entire homepage has been wiped completely, got a clean slate.
Recommend everyone else does this and just watches things that they're interested in.
Thanks, Kimmy.
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No idea, one of the reasons I want to get in touch. If a plaintiff is needed I will volunteer. But my assumption is the PIP consultation given that it was far worse than the WCA consultation, could be challenged successfully. The descriptor changes the press are claiming, were in the PIP consultation, its possible they are guessing based on that, and the actual changes could be different, but we do know some kind of eligibility change is planned, and logically without a new consultation they will use something from the consultation.
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Why Target pip when it's a none means tested benefit
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There are rumours that the PIP freeze has been cancelled. That's all they are though, just rumours. We'll know more when the green paper is released.
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I've a feeling they'll still hugely reduce the amount of folks on benefits via a back door policy. Which is the only way i could ever see this working. I really do think people currently awarded will keep their benefits in full.
And they will target the young people just coming out of education and direct them onto work schemes/training. That is the population that has really caused claimant numbers to soar. Young people with no physical disabilities and no cognitive disabilities who have become very unwell mentally due to difficulties with their home and education circumstances.
There's a plan put forward in Scotland to take these educational failing young teens out of school at 14yrs old and get them skilled up for work.
So i think it will be much, much harder once Labour have got their policies passed through for young new claimants to get any award at all on mental health grounds unless they have a diagnosis of schizophrenia or another diagnosed mental health issue that prevents them from taking up any kind of work that could earn them a living.
I can't see how any money will be saved though as any schemes to help support our young folks will take major investment extending into the social sector. Housing, poverty, families in crisis and breaking up all impact a child's outcomes.
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I'm sick of the government and media pushing this nonsense about freezing Pip, we all know it's just a ploy to make out theyv'e listened to disabled people and will not go ahead with it. The main things that will affect us are changes to eligibility to PIP and LCWRA as we could lose hundreds each month. It's really angering me that they hardly ever mention these refroms on tv etc and are focussing on benefits freezes, big deal, what's that about 40-60 quid a year? apologies if I'm wrong!! I think the most anger is coming from those who like myself suffer from mental health issues, and the language surrounding this issue, like we'll be okay if we get a job, like we've only got a bad cold or something.
These reforms will not work, you can't target a certain group pf people by saying they are less ill than others, it's total discrimination and mp's are trying to get the public on their side by making out we're lazy and putting it on. In years to come this will be the new post office scandal when it's announced hoe it's affected peoples mental health, and the already rising number of deaths due tp the DWP. 600 deaths alone last year, many of those took their own lives because they could'nt take anymore of a system that persecutes them on a daily basis.
We must all stick together on this, don't let them divide us by saying one person is more worthy of financial help than another, we all suffer in many different ways, it's very easy for someone to judge you when they have no experience of it themselves, thinking of, Reeves, Kendall, Starmer etc, they should be ashamed of themselves, but sociopaths and psycopaths don't feel empathy so not much chance on that front!!
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