News

What I don't like is the awful MP rhetoric like "being on Benefits is a lifestyle choice" long term disability and illness is not a choice Mr Sunak, Mr Stride  but I suppose those words coming from a multi millionaire Tory MPs are not surprising, not having to worry where the next penny is coming from! I have helped a couple of friends move to Universal Credit, and it wasn't as painful I thought it was going to be, you just need to prepare to prove who you are while you claim online this can save a trip to the Jobcentre in person, if you were in the WRAG in ESA you'll be transferred to the same group in UC, likewise for the Support Group in ESA you'll transfer to the same group in UC, for WRAG the conditionality is a bit more tougher and more appointments with a Work Coach will be required, work conditionality is subject to awful drastic changes if the Tory's win the next election in 2025, but it's still uncertain what Labour are going to do with the welfare state if they win the next election. You must remember being severely ill or disabled and living off benefits is a life style choice according Mr Sunak, so it's your fault your are disabled...I literally have no kind words to say about Sunak or Stride, what they feel about me, is how I feel about them! My vote is certainly not going in their direction.

This is worrying i have seizures weekly i have carers twice a day and surport works 3 times a week so i can do my shopping i can't stand for long due to my back 

After reading this it fills me with fear and dread so the time has finally arrived why couldn’t it of stayed at 2028 hopefully I’m back of the list I am really not looking forward to this cruel heartless shambles of a system better start saving up now because no doubt I will be left with weeks of no money to live off 

Haven't they killed enough people or isn't the body count high enough..There going.

I am a veteran and served my country proudly now I’m disabled and I have complex PTSD and the country-government I served are treating myself and others like me as criminals deadbeats and scroungers. I didn’t ask for my disability I would much prefer to be without it. Why shall I be put through this worry? It’s disgusting. The conservative government have ruined this country and now they choose to start a war on the sick and the disabled. They should be ashamed of themselves and kicked out of Downing Street as soon as humanly possible.

Absolutely scandalous..They get it wrong and can't get it right so penalties for the innocent.

I have just received a UC Migration notice.  Inspite of receiving enhanced PIP (care and mobility) I suspect my migration will not go well.  And I won't survive being forced to work. I have physical problems (which I get very limited help with from the NHS, less from my GP who at most does telephone consultations and rarely those).  No idea what will happen, but it won't be good.  I'm going to lose my council home and income because of the way the capacity for work assessment is judged.  Then what will happen to my son who also has special needs? Just can't see a good outcome.  I have the same condition as my son as well as some physical health challenges. I can and have gone without eating for extended periods to make the budget balance and keep feeding my children but won't be able to pay the rent on nothing.  Very very scared.

Something of interest to everyone here is that the PIP consultation ends on the day Parliament goes into summer recess, meaning that there's very little chance of anything happening anytime soon, even after the consultation ends. 

The sick note thing is bizzare. Some people will need say a one off 6 weeks to recover from serious flu or depression after a death. Then will be fully able to get back to work for 20years. If at that point you push and push them then further down the line diaster will hit and then they will be off for years. At its very basic level the rich will take unpaid leave no

Having listened briefly to what Mel Stride said on interviews yesterday, it's goes to show how out of touch the government are with reality. The utter contempt they seem to show towards people with certain disabilities, which have a major impact on daily living is flabbergasting. For some reason there seems to be a generalised attitude of just because someone suffers depression and anxiety the removal of PIP benefits will all of a sudden make them better and fit for the work place. You can see the leeches that are employed by these assessment companies rubbing their hands together and have competition on how many people they can get off benefits. If anything this last week since the original announcement of the latest BS overhauling of the benefit system, yet again being targeted on the disabled has done nothing but making the real life situation worse. Scaremongering is a word that springs to mind. I have no idea why they seem to think they can fix the benefit system by targeting disabled people, whether it be physical or mental, but there are vulnerable people out there now that are going to worry themselves into being in a worse case than originally diagnosed or even worse.

Generally speaking we laypeople or claimant need to be very careful in our reasons for answers as the questions are a well designed trap to allow misconstrued interpretation and we ALL know how adept they are at this. 

This is what I am understanding.  People with severe health conditions will continue to get cash payments.  Depression and anxiety,  it doesn't appear they will quality for PIP . Labour will win the next election,  but it just means that the changes to PIP will be delayed..As soon as the Tories win another election.  The Tories are going to veer even further to the right too . 

CAN SOMEONE CLARIFY IS ESA ALSO BEING SCRAPPED 

Oh and a follow on to my last post, If you do want to vote the Tories out, remember to tactical vote, so vote for whoever will win against the Tory in your area, that might not be Labour it might be Liberal or SNP or even Green if you live in an area with a standing Green MP (probably not if you don't tho)

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/benefit-crackdown-mental-health-sunak-dwp-b2536178.html?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR0knMnXNY9zEwdIRo5s-d3SOHAWkMnucbkdE75Tyk29bvWsP1dtWEalAoI_aem_Ae_8X47MDUXfKQTWJ_0YqDRCWP0E39CeTCFq5eICAae_xep406Y-rAcppsKSl2qzREfmfwjK6k52XpBSoxtdKdd_

I would just like to take a moment to highlight something I have witnessed on various disability forums and advocacy website comments lately. There appears to be a lot of people/bots coming forward not defending the Tory proposals (because they're plainly indefensible) but who are coming out raging against Labour. I'm not trying to interfere with anyone's free voting choice but I hope we might all bear in mind that there are some dark political forces at play just now, who know that if people can be turned off the only other alternative then the Tories will get back in by default. If this is not what you want, especially now we know what they have in store for us, however much you might feel put off by Labour's silence ok our rights - remember if we do nothing or cote for a third party with no chance of winning an outright majority, we might as well vote Tory. Be clear what you want people.

Just heard they are back to waffling about vouchers instead of pip payments and-or having us send receipts back to them for items purchased for refunding. (So they can see if we've used pip for items to help with our daily lives)

They are launching a consultation this afternoon until July 23rd. 

More deliberately disingenuous claptrap from Stride on BBC Breakfast today. In his exact words, PIP "can be thousands per month", said in such a way to insinuate that every single PIP claimant receives thousands of pounds each month, siphoned directly from the pockets of every hardworking family in Britain.

You can literally hear the gears on their propaganda machine cranking up. Expect to hear more lies like this in the coming months, now that they've been emboldened by the 'success' of their Rwanda 'Solution'.