Is this legal? (Incapacity Benefit cut).

stazi

I mean the Labour party was never founded on the principle of making the poorest poorer.

But they already have done - they introduced ESA. The purpose of the IB 'downrating' is to bring IB into line with ESA rates by 2013/4/5.

real1314

reactor wrote: »

Most people in work have managed this over the last 30 years, there are people on benefits being made worse of than they were 30 years ago, despite a huge general increase in prosperity, and indeed the money paid into the benefit system
And of course the wealthiest people have seen enormous increases in wealth yet they still want to squeeze more blood out of the poorest.

I really don't understand it. It's like the only way they have any self esteem is through money, but morally they are in the gutter. It's like we are returning to an ugly
hypocritical Victorian society.

You have to remember the people at the bottom don't really have any leeway to suffer cuts. They can't cut out luxuries because they don't have any.

I guess it comes down to this:

Under 25's on JSA get less than £49 a week; 25-59s get £60 a week. many people (but not all) on incap do not have any genuine medical need for mor money than these people. ESA is likely to reduce this differential.
If you genuinely cared about people surviving on low incomes, why haven't you been campaigning for under 25s on JSA - they get less than a lone parent gets for each child they have (£52 a week)?

kpwll

Have read the links and am just wondering what is an 'Unemployability Supplement' and who gets it? I've never heard of it before so I am really curious (or nosy as my hubby would say). Thank you.

healy

kpwll wrote: »

Have read the links and am just wondering what is an 'Unemployability Supplement' and who gets it? I've never heard of it before so I am really curious (or nosy as my hubby would say). Thank you.

The following link tells you all about it:
http://www.dwp.gov.uk/advisers/db1/unemployability_supplement.asp#cond