Upcoming changes to benefits
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Only on the PIP freeze which is the least of our worries, sadly.
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On just the PIP freeze or the whole lot??
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What are the 2015 reforms and what effect does it have
So why have they sat on this for 9 years ?
I don't understand the last part from 2017 could you explain pls
Catherine 👏 these are the right questions to be asking and all those reforms need to be understood to effectively challenge these 'new' proposals. I can't easily explain because of the scale of this scam. There are many comments on this forum about loss of the WRAG allowance from 2017 though..
The assault on benefits claimants began in 2010 with changes to Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit entitlement.
The 2012 Welfare Reform Act (IDS and Lord Fraud) is where key protections in the 2007 Welfare Reform Act for sick and disabled claimants were trashed. MP's who supported welfare reforms in 2012 and 2015 have been tying themselves in knots ever since to implement those measures without this coming out.
The Labour plotters don't care about winning a second term or seeing Keir Starmer fall (tripped). Labour leadership was in crisis during the General Elections of 2015, 2017 and 2019 due to the benefits fiasco. IDS was gifted the seat he was certain to lose at the last GE and he still rules the roost. He got Brexit done and hopes to get this done and dusted too!
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I finding hard to cope, email that unless timms and reeves. I'm autistic and scared my pip will be taken away, my review is in a few years time.
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It said pip but they have had a back lash over disability benefits in general.
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I think you are right, it is unclear though. First report I read 5 days ago was that they were simply taking away all the 2 point descriptors; ie nothing for needing reminding only for needing prompting. I don't think they have a clue - if only they'd consulted with some, say, disabled groups or people 🙄
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so does that mean if you get pip now and have a review coming up they can’t take your pip off you unless your health has improved ?
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hi Catherine hope you’re ok ,
I just watched a different bias on YouTube gushing over how wonderful labour and starmer are now they’ve stopped the benefits reforms. Ppl in the comments so pleased but didn’t realise it’s just the freeze on pip. Totally misleading video and ignored the real cuts that are coming.
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No one knows yet.
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I don’t trust the points system. For instance questions I answered were awarded 2 points when it should have been more on my previous assessment. So if you say can’t wash between your shoulders and above your waist that should be 4 points , but if you can’t wash between those areas you can’t wash your hair either which is 2 points. So a bad assessor can award you the 2 instead of the 4
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is that just the pip freeze though ?
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I understand that, perhaps I shouldn't have said the least worry. But the PIP issue they're on about u-turning on is only the freeze. My point is that it's all the other stuff that affects us worse, including your PIP. The criteria stuff, the cuts. That's the stuff we both have to worry about most.
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I just saw that Different Bias video too and turned it off half way through thinking he is just playing into the government's hands by making out how wonderful it is that they look like they are backing down on the PIP freeze.
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I've just emailed Timms and asked him to stand up for us, especially as he is our disabled minister. That i read which I have is putting lives at risk..if you can email him as well. Hopefully it may sink in
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Vulnerable ppl in the comments thanking him for putting their mind at rest cos it means they save their increase of about £100 per year, yet don’t realise they’ll probably lose pip and have a reduced lcwra . Absolutely shameful.
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The 'u-turn' and the focus it's getting is all smoke and mirrors. Likely the plan all along. What a mess.
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absolutely 100% . I’d rather take a pip freeze for a couple of years and keep things as they are . What good is then u turning over the freeze if I and many others won’t be eligible anymore. Not to mention their idea of reducing out lcwra to give it to healthy ppl . Basic uc should be higher but again it’s at our expense.
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I emailed him Kendall reeves starmer all ignored me . Apart from starmers office before the election of course
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That google document link says does not exist.
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