Der Druck auf Rachel Reeves wächst, die „gefährliche“ Kürzung der Leistungen für Behinderte in Höhe von 1,3 Milliarden Pfund aufzugeben
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/oct/12/pressure-mounts-on-rachel-reeves-to-drop-dangerous-13bn-cut-to-benefits-for-disabled
Von denyer-no1-fan
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Mark Twain once said that “If voting made a difference, they wouldn’t let us do it. “
Gotcha, 1.299bn cut instead. Can’t complain if it’s a pound less then planned. /s
Maybe fix the NHS, Metal Health and Disability Support, and you will find that a lot people will actually not need the benefits in first place. Talk about treating the Symptoms not the illness.
> The controversy is another headache for the government, particularly as the savings from the Tory-conceived plan are already baked into the Office for Budget Responsibility’s forecasts for the public finances that will underpin the budget on 30 October.
This isn’t Reeves waking up one morning and deciding to cut disability benefits. This is the tories planning the cut before the election, knowing Reeves will either get awful PR for going ahead, or she’ll need to find *another* £1.3bn to not do it.
This is a political landmine, left by the last administration. Reeves needs to disarm it, but I blame the tories that it’s there in the first place.
I know of at least 3 people who claim disability who are more than capable of working. The whole system is fucked.
The damage that the threat alone is doing is immeasureable ! Some are terrified that they will be instutialised by the system They have no mrans of getting any increase in come and a decrease would impoverish them further mentally physically and financially in society. Degrading treatment ! And unnecessary !
1.3 billion cut to foreign. Nasty Tory party policy gone. PR gold for Reeves.
They know the most vulnerable disabled have already committed suicide under Osbourne and Cameron.
>and its refusal to end the two-child benefit cap that is being blamed for tipping many thousands more children into poverty every month.
Oh fuck off Guardian. NOBODY was tipped into poverty by the two-child benefit cap. Irresponsible parents CHOSE to have a third child after the two-child benefit cap was announced nearly a decade ago.
How does anyone qualify for this particular benefit?
Waiting months or mire ayear for meds !Private companies using titration to make more money out of their contract to diagnose and medicate How much is this system from Cons actually costing Tbe sick suffering now accused by financial benecuts ‘making it up’
How about cutting useless Carbon Capture and Storage instead? No? What am I to expect from the people who thought paying Mauritius to take the Chagos Islands from us, despite the fact that Mauritius couldn’t have done a thing to attack it, and without Port Louis firing even a single bullet either, was a good idea.
I don’t know what the situation is now, but a few years ago disability benefits were extremely generous. All the bills are paid for, and you had over 2k a month in essentially disposable income. This was the case for 2 claiments I knew, one with bipolar and another with schizophrenia and I know his details exactly. Edit, it seems this was only for some and nowadays only a minority get this much. I’m not sure what the criteria is but the cases I know of were over 10 years ago and had psychotic disorders, one was about 25 years ago. Most get very little.
In my case I had CFS, I got nothing, but did have income support for a while. I still consider some who manage to pass the threshold to get help, get very generous help, and that it’s not really fair. The UK benefits system was at least, designed in such away that once you got on it you’d get more help and the longer the more you’re eligible for, so benefits tended to increase over time for some, but below that bar, it’s zero except JSA and basic income support.