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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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  • actually I find the staff at local job centre sympathetic enough but then - they can afford to be - because they know full well they don't make the rules. Only carry out the rules.  But they tried to help when I needed their help and whilst they couldn't change the decision they told me how to make it work for me, ie I had to continue with the work programme scheme as couldn't override the work programme grouping but I could take anyone with me to the appointment and took along my Occupational Autism Worker to the following appointment and got taken off the computer job hunting route which was more than fruitless and was allowed to pursue the voluntary/education route. After all, anyone could perhaps turn up claiming they autistic couldn't they, but when you go along with someone off your team who can vouch you really are, I think taken more seriously. That don't mean they haven't completely written off the getting a job option as was reminded last time about the permitted work scheme.  I forgot a few appointments in my very early days and never been sanctioned or anything. I phone up as soon as I worked out I missed one usually first thing next day. I find job centre staff are understanding.  Just the law machines and government that appears to be not realising that it the employers who are saying no to us. Perhaps the govenment should be giving incentives to employers to accept us and realise within our limits we are good workers too.

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  • actually I find the staff at local job centre sympathetic enough but then - they can afford to be - because they know full well they don't make the rules. Only carry out the rules.  But they tried to help when I needed their help and whilst they couldn't change the decision they told me how to make it work for me, ie I had to continue with the work programme scheme as couldn't override the work programme grouping but I could take anyone with me to the appointment and took along my Occupational Autism Worker to the following appointment and got taken off the computer job hunting route which was more than fruitless and was allowed to pursue the voluntary/education route. After all, anyone could perhaps turn up claiming they autistic couldn't they, but when you go along with someone off your team who can vouch you really are, I think taken more seriously. That don't mean they haven't completely written off the getting a job option as was reminded last time about the permitted work scheme.  I forgot a few appointments in my very early days and never been sanctioned or anything. I phone up as soon as I worked out I missed one usually first thing next day. I find job centre staff are understanding.  Just the law machines and government that appears to be not realising that it the employers who are saying no to us. Perhaps the govenment should be giving incentives to employers to accept us and realise within our limits we are good workers too.

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