@johnpringdns Before they bring downs working age benefits, MPs could set an example by only received same amount as the Local Housing Allowance would provide. Whateley would be entitled to 3 bedrooms. Here are the allowances. I don’t know where her home is but she wouldn’t get the £39k pa.
I worked and ran my own business for almost 40 years. I've been pysically disabled from birth but I've still worked. The fact that my disability now stops me from working is not my fault. I'm 59 in 2 months time. Am I now supposed to go back out to work @andyburnham because if I am I will make sure it costs this government a damned sight more than the meagre amount I currently receive.
@cedgson91@andyburnham Gonna need @Channel4 or someone to do a series on MP’s trying to get by on £424.90 a month with none of their added extras. And no access to their current properties, job or savings.
Would be interesting to see how they handle what they expect others to live on.
@labourlewis If my daughter loses her pip,we can no longer afford transport to college. Then she loses her access to education and becomes a NEET despite wanting an education and then a job. Why can they not grasp that PIP is NOT an out of work benefit? It keeps disabled people in jobs.
I hope you raise this.
The thought that young adults need less support is absurd. That this is even being proposed is ridiculous. That the press are insinuating that this is a done deal is just wrong.
Many disabled people and carers are exhausted, frightened and overwhelmed by the relentless attacks coming from sections of the media and political figures, such as @Helen_Whately@KemiBadenoch, who many of us feel are directing a hate campaign at the disabled using misinformation, even some Labour MPs are repeating that same misinformation. We are being portrayed as a burden, an expense, fraudsters and a problem rather than human beings deserving dignity and support.
Our lives are being used as political fodder daily while disability hate continues to rise.
We've been here before whenever cuts are proposed, but this feels more hostile and more extreme. Its causing real fear and distress among the disabled and carers communities. Its causing real harm.
It needs to stop
@labourlewis Thank you for raising it. For the many disabled people who will feel very helpless by all this; no matter the age.
When people lose hope, it costs lives. It’s been SO reckless!
@PippaCrerar It’s like kill off time 2.0.
-Care homes were first during Covid.
-Assisted dying didn’t get through sooo…
-Now they’re trying to kill off the disabled people.
@UbuntuUnifier@PolitlcsUK Pip is not means tested and is designed to be there to try to close the gap for those with additional costs related to disability.
Universal credit is a low income payment for those with savings under 16k. They can be in work and deductions of benefit occur from 6k savings up.