Upcoming changes to benefits

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  • JasonRA
    JasonRA Online Community Member Posts: 311 Championing

    Out of Timms mouth this afternoon “we are dealing with incentives for inactivity” so I’ve taken that as the payment you get for being on LCWRA is an incentive to get into that group .. extra money!

    It's because they CAN'T WORK. They're twisting the whole reason why people are signed off, it's really disingenuous.

  • noonebelieves
    noonebelieves Online Community Member Posts: 705 Championing

    @Stellar I see your point, and I agree that any scheme like this needs strict safeguards to prevent exploitation. Honestly, I don’t see the current government pushing it forward to that extent. I vaguely remember the Tories having a similar scheme when Sunak was in power, possibly under a similar name, but I never saw it in action.

  • dream
    dream Online Community Member Posts: 124 Contributor

    This labour government is going to have a lot of blood on their hands

    People living on the streets coz they going to lose everything

    I'm worried about being put on the streets on case I loss my welfare

  • secretsquirrel1
    secretsquirrel1 Online Community Member Posts: 2,052 Championing

    he claims to know ppl who work in the DWP . He himself did too apparently. And some dwp in the comments. Obviously right now no one knows for sure but he gives good breakdown of information. I also just watched A different bias again. Even he seems upset with the government.

  • FeistyPigeon
    FeistyPigeon Online Community Member Posts: 355 Empowering

    Green paper to be published tomorrow folks. See my post for details….

  • geckobat
    geckobat Online Community Member Posts: 195 Empowering

    What are they saying about TikTok and Mobility? I missed that.

  • Middleton
    Middleton Online Community Member Posts: 265 Empowering
  • michael57
    michael57 Online Community Member Posts: 2,341 Championing

    can do it the old foot and mouth way dig a big hole drive all animals in and shoot them sorted

  • judie
    judie Online Community Member Posts: 339 Empowering

    Oh, I read that as antichrist! I'm medicated up to the eyeballs 😆

  • apples
    apples Online Community Member Posts: 556 Empowering

    Apparantly from what I heard there is someone on tiktok telling you how you can get pip and a mobility car for £500

  • Vulcress
    Vulcress Online Community Member Posts: 111 Empowering

    In the seat Starmer has there are just shy of 22,000 disabled people the vox pops from his seat alone should make him wake the heck up, Like many others they would love Labour to point out where they said about all this at the GE, they had the Photo ops with the WASPI women then told them nothing changes, Axe WFP with such a brutal rollout it meant poor pensioners were treated the same as wealthy ones. Now the Disabled, See the pattern forming? He started off with policies aimed at those who were protected for years

    then the right wing media printed daily stories that they themselves help create and promote

    then new advisors were brought in and they directed policies at groups they knew were easier. Deny its Austerity all you want Its Austerity the straight to streeting Sequel.

    I would love to know who these charities are who they keep saying we've got support and feedback from them because so far all the well known charities have issued nothing but warnings to them.

    Bit like when the media covered all those YT channels "helping people cheat"

    Hmmm.. the advice given was near word to word what CAB and others offer.

    Again Kendall and Co just cant help throwing bait provided by the right wing media

    who are clueless on the reality of being disabled.

  • geckobat
    geckobat Online Community Member Posts: 195 Empowering

    Oh for people who don't need it or helping people who do? I'm sure they want to shut down any actual help and opposition to what they're trying to do either way, so they can push all these rules through.

  • secretsquirrel1
    secretsquirrel1 Online Community Member Posts: 2,052 Championing
  • Middleton
    Middleton Online Community Member Posts: 265 Empowering
  • Ross1975
    Ross1975 Online Community Member Posts: 736 Trailblazing

    For these last few months I've not been worrying much, thinking things may not turn out that bad, anything they decide will possibly take years to happen, I can save up to have a safety net for when those things happen. But lately for some reason I've been feeling worried sick, it's making me want to drink quite a lot of alcohol now and eat junk food to help me relax and give me comfort, but it'll be bad for my health, I already have high blood pressure.

  • tcellmutation
    tcellmutation Online Community Member Posts: 341 Empowering

    I'm being migrated to Universal Credit, and I'll find out my new payment amount on April 5th. I currently receive the enhanced rate for all my benefits, was in the ESA Support Group, and received the Severe Disability Premium (SDP). Previously, I understood that I would have transitional protection and would continue to receive the same amount as I did on legacy benefits. However, I'm worried that any announcements made tomorrow could affect my payments. Do you think I'll still receive exactly the same amount, or could these changes potentially impact my entitlement?

  • apples
    apples Online Community Member Posts: 556 Empowering

    Sorry I should have been more specific, for people that don’t need it and wouldn’t qualify he’s explaining how to do it

  • geckobat
    geckobat Online Community Member Posts: 195 Empowering

    Oh that's so irritating! The kind of stuff that makes things so much worse for us and why people think we're scroungers

  • Vulcress
    Vulcress Online Community Member Posts: 111 Empowering

    At the stage now I just wonder would they even care about the legal side.

    My MP just made contact in the last hour, no copy and paste.

    they fully accept what I said about

    1, Who decides who are the people truly unfit for work

    2, they agree any cuts to these people is totally unacceptable

    3, again they accept the stress and the way this is being handled is just making people even more upset and worried.

    Given the amount of bad feeling various policies have already generated my MP is one

    now considered a marginal at real risk of Reform Gaining, They are already doorstepping

    and the rubbish being spouted but its coming back to another point if people are so scared

    they will listen to something you only have to look at the people who Trusted Trump

    and now have serious Buyers regret. Labour seem intent on pushing people away who would normally be loyal voters and for what? so Reeves and her "fiscal rules" doesnt spook the Market but Trump and Co are spooking the markets 7 days a week sometimes 5 times day.

  • snuggles65
    snuggles65 Online Community Member Posts: 127 Contributor

    We have also have had the dreaded brown envelope we have to move over by 7th June. I'm not transferring until after the April increase as advised. I don't think anything will change anytime soon. Like you and many others my anxiety levels have it the roof. This year so far I've had to do my hubby's pip and ESA migration to UC and the cherry on the cake the welfare cuts. I just hope and 🙏 that they are not as bad as what the media having being saying or is that me just been optimistic.

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