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what about the child element?

Is anybody still waiting contact for contact for a claiment commitment after december 1st? This is regarding the CB-ESA renaming to NS-ESA. How long after the name change after december 1st would it take to be contacted? Plus  would we still be paid whilst awaiting contact? 

do not see the point in any increase as what they give with one hand they take with another and leave people no better off. given the state of employment and the cost of living no job security no chance of ever owning thier own home and a bleak future is it any surprise to anyone that the young are in a mental health crisis? and as per usual the governments response [regardless of who is in power] is to have completely unqualified and ignorant alleged medical professionals to sit in judgement on a condition and its effects that they have no knowledge of. Each government has always picked a minority demographic to point the finger at to blame for the countries problems whether it was single parents, immigrants, the unemployed and now the disabled, because whoa betide they should ever hold the rich and corrupt party doners to account.

For so long now, the disabled have been attacked by the media, as being lazy, workshy, scroungers, because of the "selective information" being fed to them by this Labour Government. 

I am very confused on the UC health element. Reading another site says if you were getting the higher health element that will be protected but it will be frozen until 2030.

From the BBC website:

We have better things to spend our money on than Sky tv, And takeaways that are not healthy, 

I may have hit sene before finished my comment so please ignore it. So I am sure I am not alone in this situation. I was in receipt of legacy ESA (working related and contributions), in the support group and was eligible for full housing and council tax benefit. And PIP. I have been unable to work for over 10 years but I had worked for over 25 years and received disability premium from my old employer. It wasn't a lot of money and I paid tax. It iwas below the "permitted work" allowance so it was disregard. I migrated to UC in July. I received UC, full housing benefit and the disability premium from work was written as working hours (which wasn't right but it was income) but It was £50 over the allowance UC allow for working income so it was deducted from my UC. I still received contributions ESA which is now called New style ESA, again not slot of money (still grateful). Then I applied for council tax benefit from my local council and the bill came in and I was to pay £210 per month compared to £40 while on legacy ESA. The council tax is a lot more than my total amount of UC I receive. I wrote to council tax and explained what the "working income" actually is but also pointed out that it's not my fault that DWP/ESA allowed more "working income" than UC do and this is why I now have a bill of £210 per month of council tax which has no discount because my disability premium is £50 over. I can't afford to pay £210 in council tax. I had been told I won't be worse off on UC. I can't afford the council tax but they don't care they denied my appeal. The reason this has happened is because ESA/DWP have a greater amount of "working" amount before anything is deducted compared to what UC allow. I have been told to fill in the tribunal form. I really don't want the hassle but not sure what else to do. Had anyone been in this situation. Thank you 

So if on transitional Protection does it mean that the rise im benefit will have no affect?

Those of us who were migrated over with transitional protection will not see any increases because whatever is given will be deducted from the transitional protection. I recently had a rent increase, UC awarded the increase but then deducted it from transitional payment leaving me on the same amount. Ive asked for the decision to be reviewed and sent in my income and expenditure showing I couldn't afford the increase. That was back in August im still waiting for the decision maker to get back to me after repeated journal entries asking for updates.

Bearing in mind how much the DWP love stopping your benefits for spurious reasons, if my universal credit was to be stopped and I had to reapply, I would lose £400 transitional protection from when I moved from ESA to universal credit, and now I would also lose Over £200 limited capability for work related activity. This is the case for anybody who has to reapply, maybe after an appeal. So I will be £600 a month worth off. I can’t walk or sit or stand. Also, can someone tell me how we are supposed to survive whilst waiting for an appeal?

I get ESA, limited capability to work and related activity. It says from 2026 a increase for severe conditions claimant. What counts as a servere condition? I have Parkinson's, COPD, Degenerative spine disease, and my last blood test showed a 25% decline in kidney function, which will mean tests to see if it is chronic kidney disease. I have no idea if any of them fall into the severe conditions category. Will I lose over £200 every 4 weeks?

Yet according to Julia Hartley Brewer and Jeremy Kyle on Talk TV (elderly dad watches it ) we are raking it in , takeaways , SKY telly and sleeping in until 12 o clock ! 

It's high time that legislation was implemented to ensure that all working age benefits are given Triple Lock Protection to mirror that of the state pension.    I'm writing to my MP and the media to demand this long overdue change be implemented.   Over time it will haul millions of welfare claimants out of poverty and bring benefit payments more into line with average earnings.  

Motability is setting up a new dedicated special investigations enforcement team to greatly increase it's detection of misuse of Motability venicles. The team will use tracking data.

Last year about 50,000 scheme users were investigated for suspected misuse, of which about 5,000 were removed from the scheme for misuse. To put that in context there are about 860,000 Motability scheme users. So that is already 1 in 17 users being checked for misuse each year. 

Well December is upon us and Christmas will soon be here. Which has led me to reflect on what Christ would think of our Christian nation's politicians moral leadership.

Starmer says it is his moral and personal mission to cut spending on disability benefits. As simply giving money to people too ill or disabled to work is immoral. Apparently it encourages dependency. Getting people to work is the moral thing.

Starmer laudes Milburn who is reviewing disability benefits and support for the young. Milburn says disabled people not working are demonstrating a moral failure to take personal responsibility.

While DWP minister McFadden says the increasing number of young people on disability are a disease and unaffordable burden on society.

And devout Christian minister for disability Timms. He endlessly dismisses the concerns of disabled people who are incapable of working, telling them they are in fact capable of working and will get jobs. At least when he is not walking round a disabled person collapsed on the floor.

Tory leader Badenoch by contrast talking about disability benefits has cited Biblical teachings. “St Paul, we read, in the first Epistle to Timothy proclaims that ‘Anyone who does not provide for his own household … is worse than an unbeliever’" and says that welfare spending is unchristian. As she says in Christ's time there was no welfare state.

I doubt Christ would be impressed.

At least Farage is honest when he says he never attends Church because he finds the teachings of Jesus to be objectionably woke. While his shadow minister for the DWP Anderson openly mocks and derrides people on disability.

My friend has been awarded a 10 yr award from April this yr,due to her disabilities.she was 65 when got the award,then turned 66 in Aug so state pensioner. 

The new benefits rates above are derisory and represent an insult to all welfare recipients.   Why can't they pay us a decent amount I don't know.  UK is a Rich country.  The extra money can easily be raised from increasing taxes on the higher earners and wealthy individuals with savings.  Those with substantial assets have a moral duty to support those with nothing.