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Proposed changes to PIP and other benefits

Bunny

In case anyone would like to read the Government's Green Paper with full details of the proposed changes (rather than relying only on media reports), it can be found here:

Department for Work and Pensions - Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper

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  • Just listened to the statment from the Government, and as far as I can work out you need to score 4 points in Daily Living to qualify for PIP from 2028, but it is currently set at 8 points minimum?

    But Universal Credit is to be changed for LCW part.

    Am I correct in thinking this?

  • in reply to Inglewood

    I thought she said 2026? Maybe implying that many people's current 5 years or whatever would be terminated early?  2028 was mentioned too though, so maybe I just got confused. This can lead nowhere good in an already brutalising and dehumanised system for meeting a threshold they've made very difficult to reach.

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  • in reply to Inglewood

    I thought she said 2026? Maybe implying that many people's current 5 years or whatever would be terminated early?  2028 was mentioned too though, so maybe I just got confused. This can lead nowhere good in an already brutalising and dehumanised system for meeting a threshold they've made very difficult to reach.

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  • in reply to Shardovan

    Yes - good choice of words Shardovan: ‘brutalising and dehumanising system’ - just so. We have no choice essentially to live in the system that they’ve created. Autistic people often can’t thrive in this system - and because of this we struggle to get paid work that is not damaging to our mental health. Consequently we are often forced into a position where we have no option to claim benefits of various kinds. We have NO CHOICE but to claim SOMETHING - because the capitalist system is constantly demanding money from us: huge amounts of money for rent, food, heating etc etc - basics that we simply cannot live without. And then the Govt portrays us a lazy work- shy scroungers?! It IS brutalising and dehumanising. We have to spend hours and hours filling out forms about the most intimate and embarrassing aspects of our lives - just to be questioned on them and judged and doubted. And then often don’t get awarded PIP anyway. And now this lousy govt want to make the whole thing even harder?! It’s immoral and unethical and discriminatory. I’m so sorry everyone - none of us deserve this disgusting treatment from the Government.