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Summer 2026: Universal Credit Bill to become law

The Universal Credit Bill is now certain to become law by the end of the summer, after being subject to some very significant amendments which removed all matters relating to personal independence payment (PIP).  This means that the proposed 4-point rule, which would have restricted the PIP daily living component to claimants who scored a minimum of 4 points for one activity, has been abandoned.

However, this is just the start of years of proposed welfare reforms by the Labour government.

We’ve set out some of the major planned changes below.  Over the summer we will be creating a more detailed summary.

Autumn 2025:  Timms PIP assessment review begins work

At this point there is no certainty over whether Timms review of the PIP assessment relates to current claimants or only to new claimants, once the new assessment comes into force.

According to the terms of reference, the review will include will include consideration of:

  • The role of the PIP assessment.
  • The assessment criteria – including activities, descriptors and associated points. The review will consider both the Daily Living and Mobility elements of the PIP assessment.
  • Whether any other evidence should be considered alongside the functional assessment to fairly reflect the impact of living with a long-term health condition or disability, including related to an individual’s personal circumstances and environment.
  • How the PIP assessment could provide fair access to the right support at the right level across the benefits system.
  • What role the assessment could and should play in unlocking wider support

Timms says that he will “engage widely over the summer to design the process for the work of the review, including to ensure that expertise from a range of different perspectives is drawn upon.”

The actual work of the review will begin in the Autumn of 2025. At this stage we have no idea whether the review will share information about its work as it goes along or whether it will be kept confidential until its findings are handed over to the secretary of state in Autumn 2026.

Date TBC:  Pathways To Work  White Paper to be published. 

We don’t have a date for the white paper  yet.  It could be as early as Autumn 2025.  The white paper follows the Green Paper Pathways To Work consultation and should include proposals on:

  • Removing barriers to trying work
  • Supporting people who lose entitlement to PIP
  • Proposed Unemployment Insurance contributory benefit
  • Delaying access to the UC health element until age 22
  • Raising the age at which people can claim PIP to 18

Timms has said in his terms of reference for the review of the PIP assessment that the abolition of the WCA will also be in the white paper.

April 2026:  Universal Credit Act comes into force

The Universal Credit Act will introduce cuts to the UC health element for new claims, increases to the UC standard rate and the introduction of the severe conditions criteria as a means of deciding who gets the higher rate of the UC health element.

The UC standard allowance for new and existing claims will be increased. This will mean the single person 25+ rate of UC standard allowance increasing by £7 per week, from £91pw in 2024/2025 to £98pw in 2026/2027.

From April 2026, the LCWRA element (which the Green Paper calls the health element) for existing claimants will be frozen at £97pw until 2029/30, but claimants will benefit from the increased standard allowance.  However, the freeze to the universal health element will not to apply to:

  • existing claimants,
  • people who meet the severe conditions criteria
  • terminally ill patients.

For new claims from April 2026, the rate of the LCWRA element – now called the health element - will be reduced by £47pw, from £97pw in 2024/2025 to £50pw in 2026/2027. 

People on the health element of UC will be expected, as a minimum, to participate in periodic conversations about work and support (with exceptions where this would not be appropriate). If someone does not attend or engage in a planned conversation, the DWP will seek to understand the reasons before benefits are affected.  In other words, sanctions can be applied to people in this group.  However, the green paper says that "as now, we do not envisage the requirement on this group extending to undertaking specific work related activity or to look for work or take jobs."

Autumn 2026: Timms review of the PIP assessment given to the secretary of state

The government has said they want to introduce changes as quickly as possible after the Timms review is completed.  How soon they happen will depend on whether they require primary or secondary legislation or no legislation at all.  But some changes could come in as early as Spring 2027.

2026/27:  Right To Try Guarantee

The Green Paper says that the government will establish in law the principle that work will not lead to a reassessment. For people receiving UC, PIP (in England and Wales), or NS ESA (whilst and if it is in place), we will introduce legislation that guarantees that trying work will not be considered a relevant change of circumstance that will trigger a PIP award review or WCA reassessment. 

2027/28:  Delaying access to the UC health element until age 22

This is one of the issues that was consulted on in the Pathways To Work Green Paper.  We should have more details, including whether Labour intend to go ahead with the proposal, when the White Paper is published.

2028/29:  Abolition of the WCA

The work capability assessment (WCA) is the current test which gives access to the limited capability for work-related activity (LCWRA) element of universal credit.

The LCWRA element of UC will be replaced for new claimants from April 2026 by the UC health element.

Then, from 2028/29, the WCA will be axed and eligibility for the UC health element will depend upon being in receipt of the daily living component of PIP.

According to the Green Paper, only 63% of people currently receiving the health element of UC or ESA are also in receipt of PIP or DLA.

There is currently no certainty about whether current LCWRA claimants who do not receive PIP daily living will be affected by the change.

2028/29: PIP/UC single assessment

At the same time as the WCA is abolished, the new PIP assessment that is created by the Timms review will be introduced, if it has not been introduced earlier. This single assessment will give access to both PIP and the health element of UC.

2028/29: New Unemployment Insurance contributory benefit

The Green Paper gave sketchy details of a proposal to replace New Style Employment and Support Allowance (NS ESA) and New Style Jobseeker’s Allowance (NS JSA) with one new Unemployment Insurance benefit. 

It will be paid at the ESA rate (currently £138pw) and will be time-limited. 

People claiming Unemployment Insurance will be expected to actively seek work with ”easments” for those with work-limiting health conditions. 

It is not clear how it will be decided if a claimant has a work-limiting health condition, as the WCA is being abolished.

After the, as yet unquantified, time-limit on Unemployment Insurance has expired, claimants will have to attempt to claim UC.

We should know more when the White Paper is published.

There is no certainty about how this proposal might affect current claimants.

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    · 4 months ago
    if you have an ongoing, indefinite, PIP claim (2 points for each of 4 descriptors) which is due to be reviewed in 9 years time will the claim continue to be paid for those 9 years and beyond (given it is an ongoing award)?
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      · 4 months ago
      @Malcolm Not necessarily because when the rules for eligibility change they can review at any time . However that will take time and probably a new government will be in power. 
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    · 4 months ago
    "After the, as yet unquantified, time-limit on Unemployment Insurance has expired, claimants will have to attempt to claim UC." Attempt will fail if the disabled person has savings (acquired from previous employment?) or their partner has savings and an income. In effect after a time period support for long term disabled will de-facto be means tested. And workers will start to wonder about the value of their NI contributions or the value of relationships with potentially disabled partners (who may have a genetic risk of disablement during their working life); marry the partner and you risk having to solely support them without state help at the same time as exhausting care responsibility. Then there's the temptation of assisted suicide to solve the financial and physical burden?
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    · 4 months ago
    So if you are on an existing claimant on UC (lcw or lcwra) and not eligible for PIP but cannot work what happens? Do you no longer qualify for UC? 
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      · 2 months ago
      @smc It seems like the government plans to try to force these people to look for work, which is unfair as this is something that they cannot do and the LCWRA assessment should be based on the person's ability to work and not on their daily-living needs!

      (I am also in the category of having LCWRA but not being eligible for PIP, as my condition severely affects my ability to work but doesn't affect my daily life enough to qualify for PIP even under the current rules.)
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      · 3 months ago
      @smc You will beable to claim uc which has a cap of £326 or 376 per month 
      So this will pay for bills and food 
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    · 4 months ago
    Just heard back from my Labour MP, Torcuil Crichton. Absolutely useless. He has just taken over the seat, and will find himself straight back out of it again. The islanders don't like him.

    "Thank you for contacting me about the upcoming reforms to the disability benefits system.

    After 14 years of damaging Conservative rhetoric on benefits and cuts, people are understandably fearful when they hear about changes to the benefits system. I want to be clear up front that the reforms announced by the government will not result in any immediate changes to anyone’s benefits.

    I believe that we need a welfare state that is there for all of us when we need it, now and in the future, that protects those most in need, and that delivers equality and dignity for all. There will always be some people who cannot work, and I assure you that we will protect them.

    However, the broken welfare system we inherited from the Conservatives is failing the very people it was designed to help and holding our country back. Many sick and disabled people want to work, and they deserve the same choices and chances as everyone else to do so.

    Instead, the Conservatives wrote off hundreds of thousands of people and blamed them for an unsustainable rising benefits bill. Instead of providing people the support they needed to get into work, they prioritised easy headlines. The system is clearly failing people and continuing with a broken system risks people not getting the support they need.

    I’m proud that the government is already tackling the drivers of people being out of work and supporting people into good jobs. We’ve  ended austerity and provided the Scottish Government with the largest ever settlement since devolution - with more than £5 billion of extra funding between this year and next.

    We’re investing an additional £26 billion in the NHS with consequent funding for Scotland’s NHS, making work pay with our landmark Employment Rights Bill, and introducing the biggest reforms to employment support in a generation, with our £240 million Get Britain Working Plan.

    The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions has announced that we’re going even further, investing £1 billion into employment support. This is one of the largest ever investments in support to increase opportunities to work for sick and disabled people, guaranteeing high-quality, tailored support to get people on a Pathway to Work.

    This will come alongside a package of reform to support people into jobs and make the broken system fairer and more sustainable. I’d like to highlight a few of these measures that I believe will make a significant difference to our country and people’s life chances.

    First, we are addressing the perverse financial incentives that hold people back from work under the current system by rebalancing the payments in Universal Credit. This means that we are increasing the standard allowance above inflation for the first time ever, with a £775 cash increase per year by 2029/30 for existing and new claimants, while reducing the health top up for new claims from April 2026, alongside active support to help people back to health and work.

    Alongside this, we will remove barriers by ensuring that going back to work in and of itself will never lead to a reassessment. This ‘right to try’ will give people the confidence to take on a job knowing that if it doesn’t work out, they won’t have to start from scratch.
    In addition, we are consulting on a new unemployment insurance that will help people quickly get back on track if they fall out of work, giving them a higher rate of benefit.

    It’s also important to point out the measures we have announced to protect those who are most in need. We will protect existing Universal Credit claimants by holding their health top-up steady in cash terms while they benefit from the higher standard allowance.

    We are also looking at ways to ensure that those who will never be able to work are afforded confidence and dignity by never having to go through reassessments and proposing an additional Universal Credit premium to offer those people the support they need.

    Finally, it’s important to note that some of the benefits affected by the proposals are devolved, and it will be for the Scottish Parliament to decide on future criteria. This includes Adult Disability Benefit which is replacing Personal Independence Payments in Scotland.

    I hope that I have helped to answer your questions and provide reassurance, but please let my team know if there’s anything we can do to support you.

    Is mise,
    Torcuil Crichton MP"
     
     

     


     
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      · 2 months ago
      @Vexed Hebridean Absolute joke. It would take a complete reform of the private sector job market before I would be able to find an employer who is willing to employ me and not lay me off at the earliest available opportunity. You can't "support people into jobs" when the jobs aren't there. Where's the Labour plan to tackle discrimination in the job market and lack of accomodation in the workplace.
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      · 4 months ago
      @Vexed Hebridean From 2022-2023 government estimates that 5.5 billion lost to tax fraud. 
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      · 4 months ago
      @Vexed Hebridean Absolute plum ! We need a complete change in political alliance . Roll on the elections .  They pick on people that for the majority, can’t defend themselves . So much more is lost in revenue a year from tax fraud but nobody is bothered about that .   I wonder why ?  
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    · 4 months ago
    hi   re disability living all
    i am due for reassessment in feb 26 ,, but the changes to reach 4 points does not start till nov 26. i didnt get 4 points in any task, last time but i should be judged on old rules shouldnt i ?
    kevin
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      · 3 months ago
      @1968 Think you better say 12 months before they send your review out
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      · 4 months ago
      @kevin As I understand it, yes you will be assessed in the old rules. If they assess your claim before Nov 26
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      · 4 months ago
      @kevin Yes, you will be assessed on the old rules if you are assessed before the changes are put in place. It does say that the new rules could come into force sooner though.
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      · 4 months ago
      @kevin No im on enhancedof both on pip i scord two 4 points and an 8 points on 3 questions on daily liveing if that was the case id get enhanced with flying colours if nouthing has chainged n life long then your still be re assessed like a new claiment some of us will get a papper based decsition and some FtF n some vidio n phone call but they will be increaseing the ftf n it will be recorded as standerd 
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      · 4 months ago
      @kevin
      Kevin. You will be assessed on the old rules.
      Although your claim isn't due for review for around 10 months, commonly claimants are contacted to begin the review process much earlier than expected (around 6 months before the end date as an average)
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    · 4 months ago
    A damning line in the government's own impact assessment of its multibillion pound benefit cuts says 250,000 more people - including 50,000 children - will be pushed into poverty as a result by 2030. So Labour will he responsible for 50000 children being pushed into poverty! I’m really confused. Is it Reform in power?
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      · 3 months ago
      @Jeremy H Don't forget the Carers...no PIP no Carers Allowance
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    · 4 months ago
    I have non operable lung cancer, and recovering from a Triple A open surgery,  I get limited capability and minimum mobility of pip, sounds like I’ll end up living in a tent before long .. Absolute Joke
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    · 4 months ago
    I have developed streptococcus pneumonia because of the fear that I am feeling regarding the government’s decision to punish people who are unable to work due to lifelong health conditions. I have a number of health conditions which I will never get better but the government does not seem to care about people like me. I can’t sleep and I have barely thought about anything else, every time I read what the labour government is doing I become more anxious than ever and I have reactive PTSD!!
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    · 4 months ago
    I am very worried. I am on UC and receive pip at standard rate daily living and higher rate mobility. Am I right that mobility is not affected, but if I lost daily living would I lose my pip and therefore my motorbility car? I don't know how I will live and pay my rent and bills if I lose pip and UC reduces by £50 and I live in council housing so I am on the lowest of rents and they charge me bedroom tax. I Also in the LCFWA but I am not required to look for work at the moment because of my disability and how it affects me. I think they may be xpect me to look for work but my counsellor has said he couldn't see me working any more than 2 hours a week. It's all very confusing. I am 58 and retire in a few years time. I don't have a private pension.
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      · 3 months ago
      @Deborah Panks If you get 4 point for one of the descriptors on daily living then you keep your pip daily living component. 
      If you don't get a 4 for one of the descriptors of daily living then you will lose your pip daily living component payment.
      Your mobility will still be the same and you keep your car.
      Yes you will still pay bedroom tax, if you currently do so, unless you downsize to a smaller property when you wouldn't pay any bedroom tax.
      Also, as you are 58 your actual retirement age is currently 67 so as far as the government are concerned you have 9 years left before you can claim state pension. So your option may be get rid of the mobility car to save the full amount of mobility payment to help woth your costs. Full of generosity aren't our dear government 

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      · 3 months ago
      @Wazza Yes you do pay bedroom tax. 
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      · 4 months ago
      @Deborah Panks Mobility is not affected, so even if you lose daily living you should still get the mobility part, as long as you are still ill or disabled enough to get it.
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      · 4 months ago
      @Deborah Panks You need to ring your council and get all your money back for the bedtoom tax if on pip daily liveing you do not pay bedroom tax and dont let them tell you you do because you dont also call your counil ( council tax) and get a reduced rate if you dont already they will ask you when you became in reciete of pip and they will put you on reduced tax and pay you back the over payments 👍🏻
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      · 4 months ago
      @Al Yes your correct thoes on the daily livring do not pay bedroom tax if this person is getting daily liveing they need to call there council and tell them what date they got pip and daily liveing the council havd to pay back all that bedroom tax money exsample if they have had daily liveing of pip for 6 years and they were paying bedroom tax befor they got daily liveing then the council owe them  bedroom tax from day 1 of reaceaveing the daily liveing this happend to my sister she is single in 2 bed flat was paying bedroom tax for 10 years then put in a claim for pip got both daily liveing n mobility and was still paying bedroom tax around 5 years i told her she should not be paying it so she called her council and told them sent them the proof and they back payed her the 5 years worth of bedroom tax so your correct they owe this person all that money back
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    · 4 months ago
    Hi all,

    I'm on PIP now and am a pensioner.  I am also confused about the "light touch" we were promised and I can't see anything about it in Rachael from accounts proposals.  Will we have to be assessed again under the new system? If so all I can say is thank God I am a member of Benefits and Work as I hope they address this issue.

    I am not terminal yet but have an expected shortened life span. However I do not think this is addressed under any benefits legislation at the moment.

    Fiona
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      · 4 months ago
      @BecksH If shes on pention credit it wont affect her 
      These benifit cuts and reforms are for working age UC n pip claiments hope this helps 
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      · 4 months ago
      @FionaH It will not affect you  as you cannot claim uc your on penstion credit its only for uc claiments
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      · 4 months ago
      @FionaH Hi Fiona,

      My Mum is in the same position, got standard rate daily living and standard mobility with 10 year light touch assessment back in 2017(?). No 4 points in any daily living category, 3 maximum despite us appealing last year after she informed them of worsening health.

       She is retired and although she has life limiting condition with chronic worsening mobility problems they won't up her mobility because of age. We cannot find anywhere if she would be reassessed despite it being a light touch review previously. Very anxious times.
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    · 4 months ago
    So, it seems the government are going to make it even harder to claim for PIP. Well, I didn't think it was particularly easy anyway. Just great! Wonderful! It's going to be difficult to gain enough points to get the award, or keep getting the award. I'm due for a reassment early 2027. 
    As for UC, I don't understand it yet as I'm on ESA support group. All I know is I'll be moved to UC, assuming I get UC. If I do will i qualify for the health component? I went through this the last decade with Severe Disabledment/Income Support to ESA an from DLA to PIP!!! It's groundhog decade.
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      · 3 months ago
      @Wazza i hope this will be the case .im 58 now n have ten year award ,due light touch review(i think) in another 8 yrs (well unless they decide to review me before(im enhanced both elements,but who knows what will happen. 
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      · 4 months ago
      @Carmella Yes im migrateing to UC too soon,but nouthing will come into affect until 26th november next year 
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      · 4 months ago
      @Justin@73 Once you migraite to UC and make a claim online your aword will mirror accross you wont loose money it will stay the same,you may need a work cabability assessment if your due for one to deside what group to place you in...as for your pip they will start reassessing people no matter when your aword is due to end your still get re assessed if you a a savear life long condition that will not improve the assessments will be terned off on UC and PIP...or if your on high rate both of pip and your a pentioner life long or 10 year aword of pip it wont affect you...hope this helps 
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      · 4 months ago
      @Justin@73
      I'm in the same boat as you, and I've no idea either. 
      My ESA support group is up for review next Feb, and I'm awaiting my managed migration to UC.

      I'm wondering if those moving onto UC this way are considered a 'new claim' though?
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    · 4 months ago
    Will people be reassessed before their pip renewal period? 
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      · 4 months ago
      @Delz Doubtful, as they are well behind.
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      · 4 months ago
      @Delz Yes mine id up for review in 2029 but ill no dought be re assesed befor that
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    · 4 months ago
    I have just got my pip awarded for an ongoing claim, next review 2035, I got standard living and enhanced mobility, I'm aged 65 and worried with all the announcements I may lose it. It's disgusting the way disabled people are being treated by this government 
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      · 4 months ago
      @Kimberley Your be ok ongoing awords and 10 year awords will not be re assessed depending when your date of birth is the pention age is 66 at the mo but if born in 1965 its age 67 hope this helps 
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      · 4 months ago
      @Kimberley I would have thought you'd definitely keep your PIP until 2035. What happens after that.... We really are plunged in the dark here and it's not just a case of uncertainty. It's about our lives and how we're going to cope if the worst happens. 
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    · 4 months ago
    I retired in April last year, am fortunate enough to get pension credit due to my existing DLA. If I am asked to migrate to PIP under new rules and do not qualify, that's a huge hit. Am I meant to look for work now, seeing as work is the answer? 
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      · 4 months ago
      @Living proof If you can choose to claim Atendence Allowence instead if your care needs are high then you will get the enhanced rate of Attendence allowence there is only care on that you cant get mobility like pip you get money for mobility n care on attendence Allowence there is just the care side low rate and high rate you can google how much they are..also when you fill in the Attendence Allowence form the decsitiin will be papper based you will never be assessed like with pip dwp will ask you if you want to claim pip you can refuse and say no your claim Atendence Allowence you can ring DLA and ask them because its your choice remember that not theres hope this helps 
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    · 4 months ago
    How on earth is this justified and how on earth did I not know that I was voting for the party that would do what even the Tories wouldn’t?  I just naively assumed that Labour would protect the most vulnerable. The language being used by Kendal and other ministers is the sort of language I associate with the Reform or other right wing parties. And they must have been planning this for some time in detail before the manifesto was even drawn up. Jeremy Corbyn has stood up for us in describing the cuts as a disgrace and austerity. It is the biggest political betrayal by a Labour Party that I can recall. 
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      · 4 months ago
      @Wazza What labour has done is terrifying but reform have stated they don't want no welfare for anyone so I personally wouldn't vote reform tories and now not labour . 
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      · 4 months ago
      @Rachel They cant leave you with no money and if your on UC your still get standerd money if you get pip daily liveing and mobility its just the daily liveing they will be targeting mobility part is not affected...if you have a serious life long condition that will never improve and on high rate of both on pip your not need an assessment..and if you have incontinence problems they cannot ask you to work or look for work or attend work causes ect or if your a demestic abuse victim/ suvivor and got safety meshures put inplace in your home you will never be homeless by law your council have to support you one way or anouther..if your privitely renting you can ask your council to rehouse you on safety grounds but you must show evedence to dwp and the council of police report and court restraining order hope this helps if you need more advice you can call Shelter x
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      · 4 months ago
      @Jeremy H Its not yr fult ive been a labour voter for years but i voted Reform uk last year because i did not like the look of starmer i had a gut feeling he would back track on his prommisses but i was rite i even wrote to my mp to oppse this benifit cuts but he came back with the same stories as starmer mite aswell not botherd.
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      · 4 months ago
      @Jeremy H
      the tories would have probably 
      done if they were in power buy true they hadnt dared as of yet
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      · 4 months ago
      @Jeremy H It's terrifying to be honest. There is no longer any political party interested in protecting the most vulnerable in society.
      These cuts will most likely leave me homeless along with so many others. Since there is a massive shortage of social housing what will happen to us all? Either we die on the streets or the cost of providing adapted temporary accommodation for us all will be higher than the gains they plan to make by trying to force already disabled and vulnerable people into further fear anxiety and poor health. It's utter insanity and I can't unsserstand how I will survive it all which considering I'm 58 and not as vulnerable as some will be is horrifying. 
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    · 4 months ago
    Does anyone know what's happening to contribution based ESA support group? I can only see new style mentioned in the green paper. 
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      · 3 months ago
      @Kay Contribution based esa IS new style  esa, In the support group, you don't get the same amount of new style esa as your old contribution based esa, and it gets deducted from your monthly UC allowance, but not heard what they're trying to cut from that yet either
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      · 4 months ago
      @Kay Contribution ESA is now called New style ESA I can’t find any details anywhere as to what they will do with us other than at reassessment move us to UC which will then be in one related so unfair !!!
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      · 4 months ago
      @Kay I'd be interested in that also 
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      · 4 months ago
      @Kay The wording in the Green Paper clause 54 says ‘the new merged benefit will end the indefinite entitlement to
      contributory ESA for those assessed as having LCWRA ( for NEW claimants )
      I guess current claimants will continue to be paid unless their next assessment changes their entitlement.
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      · 4 months ago
      @Kay I thought new style was contribution based
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    · 4 months ago
    Regarding the time limiting of New Style ESA and JSA when they both change over to Unemployment Insurance, is this time limiting for new claimants only? Section 54 of the Green Paper states that:

    54. Alongside levelling up the rate, this change would end the indefinite entitlement to contributory ESA for those assessed as having limited capability for work-related activity ( for new people claiming ). Those unemployed after the time-limited period would be able to claim UC, depending on their personal circumstances. We believe this reform would align with the removal of the WCA, by offering a route to financial support for those with temporary and short-term health conditions, including for those who may not be entitled to PIP and therefore not entitled to the health element of UC.

    The ''(for new people claiming)'' would seem to imply that this time limitation is only for new claimants?

    Also do any of these changes, not just the time limitation, affect claimants who are currently in receipt of Contribution based ESA and in the Support Group. By which I mean exactly that ie NOT New Style ESA

    Many thanks
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    · 4 months ago
    I get pip low care component I am a pensioner will I be affected 
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      · 4 months ago
      @D smith No  
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      · 4 months ago
      @D smith The way I am reading the information is that we face no change until the claim is reviewed, but I may be wrong.
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      · 4 months ago
      @D smith yes
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    · 4 months ago
    i am 76 retired and recive pip long term disability will this affect me its already a strugle

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    · 4 months ago
    I have a problem that I think is an issue they haven’t thought through yet🙄. I was awarded my PIP nearly 3 years ago and it was for 10 years. I have the higher mobility component and the lower daily living component. I am now a pensioner and my PIP is continuing as per the rules. I cannot change the awards given to a higher living component as I am now a pensioner. My living component is made up of 4 elements all scoring 2 . My condition is getting worse and I know that I could score 4 in one of those elements now however when they do review me, will they refuse to allow me to score 4 because it will be a change , even though it will still only allow me the standard living allowance, or will they just take it away anyway because my scores are different and I’m not allowed any changes post 66? All a very grey and concerning area. And will they change the review times? I have a degenerating spinal injury and my daily living PIP is essential to me for so many reasons. 
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      · 3 months ago
      @Elli From what I gather, your award is going to be renewed in 2034. If you dint get 4 point for at least 1 of the daily living descriptors and a total of 8, you won't be getting the daily living component REGARDLESS of your age
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      · 4 months ago
      @Jenny
      Jenny

      "I cannot change the awards given to a higher living component as I am now a pensioner."

      This is incorrect - but it's what I thought before I phoned the DWP!

      Last year (aged 68 & in receipt of standard mobility ONLY), I asked for a reassessment as I had developed rheumatoid arthritis & needed assistance to cook. I use crutches & so cannot carry things around the kitchen.

      To my surprise the DWP sent me a form - I filled it in & was awarded higher rate living (with a 4 point score for cooking help) for 10 years.

      My mobility score increased to enhanced - but because of my age the payments could not go up.

      Please ask for a reconsideration - if you feel comfortable doing so 

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      · 4 months ago
      @Elli why do you think you will  be safe? Can you switch to attendance allowance instead?
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      · 4 months ago
      @Jenny Hi Jenny, I'm in the exact same position as you - 66 year old pensioner on PIP, awarded for 10 years and to be reviewed in 2034. I'm not sure but I think we'll be safe. I still don't fully understand it all but didn't they state that people like us will no longer have to reassessed? I'm not sure but I'm hanging on to that. Take care x
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