Upcoming changes to benefits

Hi @Andi66 Are you talking about PIP? Means-testing in accordance with income and/or savings or via taxation hasn't been much in the media. @philevan77 mentioned they'd come across something but they've failed to respond to my request for a link or a sound source of information. The Green Paper is anticipated around midday.

Yes, I'm already scared, fir myself and my daughter, she's on pip, she works but has autism, bpd, and now eye problems. So I'm fearful for her as well

does anyone know how you get awarded a 10 year awards? I thought it was for ppl on highest for care and mobility but I’m that and get short term awards .

From past reading Labour with be heavily investing in AI technology which will cut times down and no doubt civil servants including the 9000 they have just made unemployed .

I guess it makes sense really if done right and it’s voluntary. If they can help the young to train for work they can catch them early. Less incentive to help older people as conditions don’t improve with age . I can feel my body is less capable than a year ago .

I don't know where they think all these jobs are going to come from.

I live in a holiday resort and most jobs are seasonal and competively sought after mostly by non disabled people.

A lot of people here have to sign on out of season.

Jobs here are amongst the lowest paid in the country and a lot of people are on universal credit.

I am sure it must be similar in other areas of the country

Personally I think Liebour are living in cloud cuckoo land if they think they can drum up enough jobs and make it harder for disabled people to qualify for benefits.

I think it will back fire big time and they are in for an almighty shock.

At the time I was on a long waiting list with a charity for trauma therapy and they had people there who helped with PIP forms. I was in a right state about it but my support worker spent a lot of time with me over a few meetings going through my day and all my issues and illnesses and literally wrote down reams on the form, everything I said and even small things I probably wouldn't have thought to put on the form myself. I also would not have been able to physically write that much myself and get it all in order in my brain with all the brain fog etc. I feel very lucky as apparently that charity has now lost all their funding and have had to make loads of cutbacks so if it had been this year I would not have had the help so I am so grateful for that.

There isn't enough Jobs that is backed up by the figures. They have already cost people jobs their Jobs and we still have lots of places closing 5 years after Covid.