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28% cut in ESA payments

longman

Has anyone read about this - News from the NAS - Parliamentary Review into cuts in employment and support allowance ?

The Government wants to cut money for disabled people who receive ESA, who are in the Work Related Activity Group, from April 2017.  It will not affect people already on ESA, but people who come onto ESA after that date. They will get £29 5p less a week (£73.10 instead of £102.15).

There is a Parliamentary review on this, and there is a short questionnaire on a link from the News item. They want people to speak out.

The reason - its an incentive to disabled people to get themselves into work. The Government says it will help, but so far what has their help amounted to?

The proposed cut is therefore a "Sword of Damocles" hanging over the heads of many autistic people - intimidation.

This from a Government that cannot stand up to the big companies dodging tax, and the big bosses taking massive bonuses and pay rises (Cameron is probably genuinely scared these people will bury him in concrete if he doesn't give into them). What he can always do, it seems, is make things worse for those weak and disadvantaged. They are no threat to him.

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  • Its going to happen I guess whether we like it or not.

    I also think it is down to us collectively to work at any changes that we know full well would adversly affect us, whilst officiall NAS may not be able to take any official stance on any political changes affecting our welfare. There is nothing stopping us from campaigning ourselves for a better future, one with sustainable finanical means rather than always, always scraping the barrel when it the employers who don't want us rather than us not wanting to be wanted.

    Various polictical mile stones such as women voters as an obvious example didn't happen by chance. People worked together and were willing to challenge.  Perhaps we need to re read our history and work out how to change to future for ourselves.

    Oops didn't mean this to sound like a rally warcry of plea.  I get so annoyed when I hear those pensior who think that people on Pips etc get more than they do.  They are just thinking about financial more.  Sorry going off on one xxx

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  • Its going to happen I guess whether we like it or not.

    I also think it is down to us collectively to work at any changes that we know full well would adversly affect us, whilst officiall NAS may not be able to take any official stance on any political changes affecting our welfare. There is nothing stopping us from campaigning ourselves for a better future, one with sustainable finanical means rather than always, always scraping the barrel when it the employers who don't want us rather than us not wanting to be wanted.

    Various polictical mile stones such as women voters as an obvious example didn't happen by chance. People worked together and were willing to challenge.  Perhaps we need to re read our history and work out how to change to future for ourselves.

    Oops didn't mean this to sound like a rally warcry of plea.  I get so annoyed when I hear those pensior who think that people on Pips etc get more than they do.  They are just thinking about financial more.  Sorry going off on one xxx

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