Upcoming changes to benefits
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Saying on GBN government going to do a U turn over back lash from Ministers and MP's
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Yes @worried33 The new points system doesn't make sense.
A claimant can have a very major disability but only score less that eight points because the disability isn't multiple.
Equally, a claimant with a multiple disability might score a lot of points but none of them as high as four, thus losing their claim. I'm reminded of the Tories' Green Paper last year. One of the questions was whether we thought claimants with a lot of low points ought to get the same amount of PIP. Sorry, I don't have the form to hand.
I dint trust the points system as it is. Looking back to when DLA was launched and i got it for life, the focus seemed to be on the degree of disability rather than points.
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https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Z-UyXXcCBUiMY_2POvCQAhr7srbbodtmnCqEEIICW RQ/mobilebasic
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yes like me
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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'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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