IDS, "Disabled People Will Be Treated With 'Kindness'" ?? (how will he shield them?)

dori2o

Depending on how severe the changes are I will have to give serious thought as to whether it is worth me putting myself through significant amounts of pain getting too and from work, or trying to manage the sttess/anxiety I suffer whilst there whilst 'trying to do the right thing'.

Taxing DLA/PIP and treating it as income from £10600, or abolishing/cutting the disability element of Tax Credits would probably be enough to see me give up work, sell the house, move the family into social housing where I dont have to worry about buildings insurance, maintenance, repairs, and effectively retire at 35 due to ill-health as working simply could no longer be justified.

Especially if we suffer the double whammy of cuts to the disability benefits AND further cuts to tax credits on top.

In that situation selling the house won't be a choice it would be a requirement as we simply wouldnt have the money to afford it despite it costing £200 a month less than renting exactly the same property just a few doors down. By renting we'd get HB, by buying we get no help.

I fear July 8th will be a very, very bad day indeed for a lot of working disabled people. The majority of whom not only face daily challenges with health but are also amongst the lowest paid in the country.

I also have a horrible feeling that Access to Work will be scrapped or at the very least limited by an annual or lifetime cap on the amount of support provided.

faerielight

Capping benefits is eventually to catch up with us though.. the cost of food/ bills is increasing so much and for me HB doesn't cover all my rent, I'm about to have another rent increase and rent is insanely expensive..and my DLA is being used partly for day to day living expenses, as well as contributing towards my care agency and motability car.. there's nothing left from my benefits to cut! I am truly scared .

rogerblack

The lower-than inflation rises of benefits in the last several years, followed by freezing the rises have effectively decreased ESA by around 5% so far. People in the support group have been 'protected' by them only decreased by 3.5%.
(Rough numbers, from memory).

This is - for many - somewhat managable.

http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/publications/PublishingImages/inflationreport/cpimktmay15.gif

Looking at the predictions of CPI, and assuming the middle of the prediction is correct, and then returning to normal historical average of 2%, that looks like 1.5% in 2016, and 2% thereafter.

If the current benefit rate freeze is not unfrozen, this results in real-terms drop over this parliament of another 7.5%, added to the existing 5%.
Or 12.5%.
This is starting to really bite.

colin13

faerielight wrote: »

Capping benefits is eventually to catch up with us though.. the cost of food/ bills is increasing so much and for me HB doesn't cover all my rent, I'm about to have another rent increase and rent is insanely expensive..and my DLA is being used partly for day to day living expenses, as well as contributing towards my care agency and motability car.. there's nothing left from my benefits to cut! I am truly scared .

te government have basically admitted that in the last 5 years they have ruled over a drop in wages,,,and off course they take it out on disabled etc

Roxy07

Believe it when I see it !!

fatbelly

missbiggles1 wrote: »

Godwin's Law in only four posts!

I had to google that.

"As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1"

Very true

marleyboy

lemontart wrote: »

this bit defo puzzles me given that a major aid to some for being able to work is independant living payments which are going so I hear and why there were protesters in parliament tomorrow,

I'm more puzzled by the connection between "were" and "tomorrow".