Government green paper

Hi just seen on the news today about the government green paper they said they can cut 6 billion to the welfare specially people who are disable and on Pip also I heard on the news they might stop pip for 12 months and make it totally harder for anybody to claim anything to help them so is this so-called green paper official or as it got to be passed through Parliament even the tories and some labour MPs are against this they say every who is disabled a very sick should be lobbying their MP before end of this month so is there anymore news or have we got wait to end of this month I will never vote again it’s always the rich telling the the disabled the sick and poor we’ve got have it harder thanks

there's a bit more detail, from ITV news obviously because thats the official DWP comms channel

www.itv.com/news/2025-03-07/government-t...th-benefits-shake-up

"The radical package of reforms will see:

£5bn in savings by making it harder to qualify for Personal Independence Payments - a benefit not linked to work that is meant to help people with the additional costs of their disability

Further savings by freezing PIP payments next year, so they do not rise with inflation

Raising the basic rate for Universal Credit paid to those searching for work, or in work, while cutting the rate for those who are judged as unfit for work.

A billion pounds of savings ploughed into a major investment for employment support for those who are looking for a job "

i'm lcwra but in work, if anyone wants to hazard a guess whether i'll be getting more of less money i'm all ears

They haven't said they are suspending pip for twelve months.

Is this going to be for existing people or new claims re cutting people who are unfit to work. This is really worrying. If they cut payments I will not be able to feed myself.

I presume they mean they are thinking of freezing the level rather than freezing the actual payments, this is what normally happens.

it's obvious this hasn't been thought through properly, I imagine someone who is terminally ill with a few months to live asking if they will need to fulfill jobsearch requirements to get a workable amount of money could have a bit of impact, in the media for instance.

if it comes to it and people find themselves boxed in to employment conditionality, applying for jobs can be a quick process, on sites like reed for instance I think you can save your cv etc, you can sort search results like on an e-commerce site, list them by fewest or most applications made for a post for instance, it can take 5-10 minutes to make 4 job applications like this if that is a box that needs to be ticked.

it's been 10+ years since I was on JSA, I'm self employed now, at the time the DWP had just contracted with monster.com to make their own jobsearch tool, your advisor could look and see what you'd done etc, it was kind of billed as mandatory but legally it wasn't, the DWP staffs own union advised them of this.

my main objection to this at the time was that monster.com had had many data breaches, like the site getting hacked and thousands of peoples personal info being stolen, the DWP holds some very sensitive data which shouldn't fall into the wrong hands.

should it come to it, it might be a good thing for benefits and work to write a guide about the actual legal requirements for someone who is in a jobsearch category, what they need to be doing in order to be eligable.

I'm not keen on the part about the disability component being reduced, but a rise in the basic rate is probably a good thing, it's supposedly 40% less than people need to live on