Upcoming changes to benefits

all 3 psychopaths . Starmer definitely. His behind this mr flip flop persona and ppl fell for it . Once in office the real him came out . No empathy or personality. The other two just joined the wrong party , guess the Tory’s didn’t want them .

I have a UC claim review this Thursday via phone; you'll likely get one at some point.

Had to send in 4 months of bank statements

I scored 2 points on all of the proposed description changes for pip, 8 for engagement - my review was sent off in spring last year, I got a letter saying that they were extending my reward until March 2026 because they were still collecting evidence or whatever it was - am I right in thinking that actually they have done this to wait for the changes to come into effect and take aaay my award completely? I haven’t eaten in days, I haven’t slept. I haven’t moved out of bed. I’ve lost hours of time dissociated I’ve done nothing but ruminate - I will not, will not be able to cope, I honestly feel like I may aswell just end it now and save myself the stress and the government their money so as to not be seen as a leech to society.

no your maths is exactly right

Cutting lcwra award by 25% is more lucrative to the dwp than a pip freeze (though as I showed the saving for that improve with every consecutive year)

However there’s one thing you haven’t stated

(one thing I learnt this week - journalists and politicians suck at maths and statistics)

A 1 year pip freeze would cost each claimant £3.50 a week (and it’s technically not reducing award amount)

Cutting 25% from the lcwra would cost each claimant about £20 a week (and as I said a cut looks much worse on paper then a freeze)

this is from the guardian polities live text

”a load shared is a load halved”

The quickest and ‘fairest’ way for the treasury to get ‘quick money’ from incapacity benefits is a lcwra and/or pip freeze (if starmer/reeves/kendalls hadn’t verbally tried to throw the whole disabled community there may have been an option for the dwp via the uc journal to ask if those with any transactional protection would be open to a voluntary reduction of £10 to £50 a month dependant on what the claimant could of spared - I would of been open to it if the dwp were showing real signs of listening and working with disabled but I don’t feel inclined to help fill another one of labour leadership’s black hole and not really open to compromise until the disabled community get an apology from Kendall/reeves/starmer/dwp about (what is essentially) bullying, smearing and scapegoating this community has had to endure from minister quotes to the constant media pieces that gov insiders are very obviously feeding the far right papers)

Fair welfare reforms that benefits not just the treasury financially longterm but also strengthens the financial safety net for disabled ppl is possible (and I truly believe that) but it’s going to take time, patience and open mindedness on the govs part (and politicians not seeing threatening disabled ppl lives as a reasonable cost for using welfare cuts as a ATM - as the ‘easy’ solution to their problems)

The law dosen't matter if those in charge won't respect it. Look at what Donald Trump is doing in the US.

Thank you. The more extreme the proposals the longer it will take for any changes to come about.

I agree , I would have rather they froze payments for pip and lcwra then they have them just take the benefits away . According to A different bias on YouTube they were planning on using the savings from stopping fraud to fill the black hole whatever that is . It seems like Starmer having no clue how to run the country decided to leave the disabled destitute to add to the defence budget , especially as in msm he was getting better press . Just my opinion for what it’s worth.

yes but Starmer is all for the echr so if it went that high would he go against their ruling ? He couldn’t then refuse to go against them for other rulings so easily.

So we have Diane Abbott agreeing with Ed Balls "it's not a Labour thing to do"

I knew she would be very much on side because she and Corbyn are left and mayor Andy Burnham against the cuts especially in light of Rachel Reeves rejecting any chance of a wealth tax

I must say there is something truly wrong with politics when we have multimillionaires like Sir starmer as a PM and multimillionaires like Rachel Reeves going after disability benefits.

They both should get jobs that are in keeping with their millionaire status especially just after multimillionaire Sunak .

They will always punch down when they are the wealthy and lead such luxiourious lives and mix with others that are millionaires.

Politics just ends up looking like a millionaires club not compatible with decision making for the people.

IIt looks like these multimillionaires are so far not backing down including a quote of Rachel Reeves as chancellor not for turning I think that's a wink to the late Baroness Thatcher .

So I'm not expecting much watering down especially with Liz Kendall nothing I've read so far makes me think she is against cuts and throwing the sick and disabled into work.