Disabled could be £2,800 a year worse off under universal credit, think tank finds

https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/disabled-could-be-ps2800-year-worse-under-universal-credit-think-tank-finds

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  2. It says ‘could’ be worse off but doesn’t say how or why?

  3. To sum up, disabled people who can’t work will be poorer and in response to this the DWP said to get a job if you don’t want to be poor

  4. “You can’t work because you’re disabled? Oh no! Anyway… Get a job you lazy cunt. Love, Conservative Party.” – our government.

  5. The same disabled people who are already choosing between heat, food or transport, many of whom have died due to austerity measures since 2008?

  6. I’m not interested in they *could* be. I’m interested in *will* they be…

  7. Wonder if more WFH will give more opportunities for disabled people to work, if disabled people that previously were a negative to the economy could contribute then surely we should re-look at how we distribute money and incentivise people to start working.

    As usual it’s a half assed plan that won’t give them any opportunities though so they will miss out even more.

  8. When I read the work “Think Tank” I hear the words internally “Tory dark money”

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    Think Tanks are just tories wearing glove puppets.

  9. Good! Might discourage the scroungers and disability blaggers. Probably won’t like.

  10. These guys might as well be charged with involuntary manslaughter at this point. 

    How many people have they made commit suicide, who’ve been told they can work, like throwing someone with terminal cancer off because they’re healthy for the moment. 

    If you want to solve the economy, maybe change the tax rates on higher earners …

    The fact it only goes up to 45% after 120k is a fucking joke, 

    Make it make fucking sense, if we cant afford to live on basic, why not tax lower earners less. 

    But to be honest, what’s the point in complaining, we all know who our government work for and it’s not us.

  12. So who are the ones who are better under the new system, if it’s 14 billion pounds more money being given out? And is it some crazy combination of unlikely circumstances to get the 2.8k figure?.

  13. I’ve got a cousin who’s been committing benefit fraud since 2016.

    He’s stolen more than £60,000 in cash as well as upwards of £40,000 in financial aid/discounts etc

    He’s been reported multiple times with undeniable evidence and yet every time nothing has happened.

    And yet the government are taking the money of people who actually need it? Lol

  14. Let’s not forget government thinks we/us disabled are just parasites..

    I was left paralysed after accident 22yrs ago, let’s just say it’s opened my eyes

  16. tories hate people who can’t work because it means they might have to

  17. Sunak said in the clip: “I managed to start changing the funding formulas, to make sure areas like this are getting the funding they deserve because we inherited a bunch of formulas from Labour that shoved all the funding into deprived urban areas and that needed to be undone. I started the work of undoing that.”

  18. My wife worked for the DWP, she lost her job as she wasn’t fit to work, their words, she applied for PIP and was then told by the DWP she was fit to work and was denied PIP. She appealed and won. Absolute bunch of criminals.

    Edit: I forgot to mention the reason they said my wife was fit for work was she had to stand whilst waiting for her appointment as there weren’t enough chairs. They basically denied her before she’d even been assessed. What was she supposed to do? Sit on the floor and have someone pick her up? Despicable bas***ds!

  19. I didn’t get this title at first, most people who are disabled will be getting some form of PIP and or LCWRA.

    Some will be getting more help depending on their disability requirements from the local council.

    But I see they are trying to move legacy claimants who receive disability payments over to this system and they will lose out. Potentially negatively impacting their level of care.

    The DWP need to be really care about this but when are they anything else but callous and impersonal.

  20. This isn’t new it’s been happening since UC started for new sick
    Or disabled claiments. In order to run the whole “you are always better off in work” they had to cut other people money. Even if you could be an 18y with a sever disability and never be able to work. Can’t work then tough

  21. Having a disability is expensive.

    The UK government has already (quite rightly & utterly humiliatingly) been pulled up in front of the ECHR for violating the rights and freedoms of people who have disabilities.

    They have not only learned nothing but they’re intent on hurting and disenfranchising more people because they are easy targets and find it harder to fight back. It’s despicable behaviour.

  22. The system is horrific to go through. I have ptsd, other disorders, seizures and am having to go to tribunal because they scored me 0 on everything, said my memory is fine and constantly ignored my pile of GP letters, neurologists contacts, therapy papers etc. Being worse off than already getting nothing would be interesting to see

  23. Can anyone show me which employer is going to pick a disabled person over someone that’s able bodied

  24. The disabled people I know are all struggling and the government does not give a fuck in the slightest.

    When you see stuff like this, it’s just downright depressing

  25. In other news water is wet.

    How is anyone surprised that the safety net the Tories have been systematically cutting holes in is so tattered it now fails to catch people?

  26. 7 weeks ago I had a cryptogenic stroke. I’m 42. Paralysed on my dominant side. With physio I’m up and about, my arm is coming back to life.
    I still haven’t received any benefits. Payment is this Thursday. Tomorrow I’ve got an interview at the job centre. I’ve got a 12 page document to assess my capability for work and I cant even write my own name. Don’t know if I qualify for pip. I get ssp so they’ve reduced the amount of uc I get. I’ve gone from 2k a month to about £800.
    I’ve worked all my life. UC is shit. Staff don’t care. They have a robot answering service that didn’t understand me and kept hanging up cos I can’t speak properly.
    It’s awful.

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