Cost of living crisis: UK benefits plunge to lowest value in 50 years

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  1. If there are people able to play the system so easily as the papers make it out to be, then the system is shite and the blame for that lies with the government.

    What’s been identified? Is it literally just people lie = get money? Is it that easy?

  2. >“These severe real term cuts are a direct consequence of his point-blank refusal to take into account current price rises in setting rates,” he said. “His decision will help push an extra 1.3 million people including 500,000 children into absolute poverty. It’s now clearer than ever that the working people, disabled people and **pensioners are worse off under the Tories**.”

    Let’s all laugh at that joke

  3. you are voting Tory for more than a decade … this is what you get.

    But behold the chaos we would have in if Ed Miliband would have been elected…

    But you have to give them one thing they reached perfection to make the majority of British people hate everybody and think the fault is not be found with them, but with the Left, the migrants the poor, the disabled everyone basically… Reminds me of this brilliant [Cartoon](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EOfoJH4WoAAeM-K?format=jpg&name=small)

  4. Had the bbc news on this morning and was surprised how hard they were going in on the government. Laying this economic crisis clearly at the feet of the tories.

  5. If you’re on UC, get ready to struggle more than you could imagine, while those cronies in Westminster enjoy there 3 grand wage rise and non-dom pocket lining status.

    Time to rise up, if only i could afford the train fare..

  6. We should be aiming to move the burden from the government onto employers. Wages are certain to rise, now that the floodgates have been shut on unskilled labour from eastern Europe.

  7. “I don’t care, I will continue to hate the people with £10 more in their pocket rather than the multi-millionaires in charge”

    – A good working class Tory, probably.

  8. And yet the number of people on benefits will only go up, as those in work claim them to prop up wages which haven’t risen and don’t cover costs.
    Meanwhile the government will continue the “benefits users are scroungers” and “it’s all to encourage work instead” narratives.

  9. Weird how the Parliament’s European Communities Act occured, in 1972 exactly 50 years ago, weird that one is

  10. There is going to be a lot of suffering as a result of the present policies – particularly amoung people who for whatever reason are not working, as benefit policy improvements are focused only on those working.

  11. The joy of benefits! I’m disabled and get Self Directed Support from the council to help pay for support needs. I got a letter from the council a few days ago telling me about the 3-odd percent increase is SDS to help with cost increases.

    My support costs have increased by 58%

    Then I got another letter a couple of days later telling me that because the benefits have increased by 3-odd percent they are reducing the amount of support I get.

    All while waiting for a Mandatory Review on a decision made in November last year so I’m not actually getting any income and will likely have to go on to a tribunal which will mean no income for another 16 or so months.

    But hey those on benefits are living the life of Riley on all that free money they get…

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