Upcoming changes to benefits

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  • geckobat
    geckobat Online Community Member Posts: 74 Contributor

    Exactly this. I'm worried the focus on the PIP freeze is overshadowing the more worrying parts, the cuts and reforming the criteria so it's harder for anybody to get help in the first place. That makes me even more worried they'll push the rest through and say "well at least we didn't freeze PIP".

  • luvpink
    luvpink Online Community Member Posts: 1,943 Championing

    I know and thats why the government are living in cloud cuckoo land if they are really that stupid to assume they can suddenly drum up jobs that don't

    exsist.

  • luvpink
    luvpink Online Community Member Posts: 1,943 Championing
  • geckobat
    geckobat Online Community Member Posts: 74 Contributor

    They were also cheering on their own AI plans, and AI is useful for some things but it's also taking a lot of jobs. Many of those jobs were ones that some disabled people might have been able to try working from home too. Then on top of them making it harder everywhere else so businesses are hiring less anyway. They are clueless.

  • Stellar
    Stellar Online Community Member Posts: 267 Empowering

    It's not the only uniquely British attitude that's so toxic and harmful. The way this country is hostile towards the EU and trans rights are both unique within European. Oh and the systemic classism and serfdom. It's vile.

  • Gregam
    Gregam Online Community Member Posts: 14 Listener

    Hi All, can anybody help me and explain about SARS please? Thinking of everyone in this awful time.

    I'm shocked people who are vulnerable can be treated this way.

    Ag

  • secretsquirrel1
    secretsquirrel1 Online Community Member Posts: 674 Championing

    my first assessment was zero points from highest DLA. Assessor lied totally. Tribunal bullied me and erred in law so it went to higher tribunal. Then back to third tribunal where I got 5 years back dated 2 as it took two years of fighting them. Last assessor took over two hours on what dwp told me should be a quick assessment. She gave me less than two years but dwp increased it themselves. I thought highest for both was 10 light touch but I don’t know how they work that out. She tried to act friendly but I didn’t trust her.

  • tcellmutation
    tcellmutation Online Community Member Posts: 339 Empowering

    "I thought highest for both was 10 light touch"

    What do you mean?

  • alex25
    alex25 Online Community Member Posts: 8 Connected

    What I find unconscionable is how intentionally divisive they’re making this, it’s disgraceful politics. Turning communities in on and against each other, that’s part of this narrative. I’ll fight that way of thinking till my last breath. There are many others who have much worse health situations and others who have it better. But it serves a purpose to create mistrust amongst people as a distraction from the real unfairness and inequality in this country. Creating a sense of relief for some tomorrow and utter panic for others as they’re thrown under the bus is disgraceful manipulation. Whatever the outcomes I think it’s vile to be honest. 

  • secretsquirrel1
    secretsquirrel1 Online Community Member Posts: 674 Championing

    some ppl get 10 year award and light touch reviews after that . I read somewhere years ago you had to have highest car and mobility to get it .

  • tcellmutation
    tcellmutation Online Community Member Posts: 339 Empowering

    I got the 10 year award, scored 16 points on daily living and 16 on mobility

  • secretsquirrel1
    secretsquirrel1 Online Community Member Posts: 674 Championing
  • Jamk85
    Jamk85 Online Community Member Posts: 31 Empowering

    I am getting little fed up with the government saying, getting those back into work, what work is that then!

    So many are losing their jobs with labour in power.

  • geckobat
    geckobat Online Community Member Posts: 74 Contributor

    Guardian saying he's going to 'drive through drastic cuts despite opposition'.

  • secretsquirrel1
    secretsquirrel1 Online Community Member Posts: 674 Championing

    Mine ignored all medical evidence, my GP was astonished. She twisted what my specialist wrote and blamed my ME on a sick family member. Then wrote but she’s ( meaning me ) ok now . Although there’s no cure . Dwp gave me points for MR but I still went tribunal. The worst was the disabled woman herself. She bullied me and said inappropriate things. Then tried to remove points off me for a question I had been awarded points for by dwp . That would have left me with nothing. They were playing up to the dwp representative who was there and thought she was Ironside. Four of them questioned me as though I were on a murder charge .

  • luvpink
    luvpink Online Community Member Posts: 1,943 Championing

    I only ever get 3 year awards and I'm on highest rate for both elements.

  • oliverplace7
    oliverplace7 Online Community Member Posts: 5 Listener

    hope im wrong but i don’t think they will backdown on anything,just caught a brief piece on Google from the guardian saying that Starmer isn’t gonna give way on anything ,hopefully just a headline getter but I’m not so sure

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