
The TRUTH the UK Goverment's regime would love to keep quiet
A few extracts to note here from the excellent Benefits and Work Publishing Ltd people…
LABOUR RESORT TO ONLINE SCAM TECHNIQUES TO FORCE PIP AND UC CUTS THROUGH
Labour ministers have resorted to online scam techniques to try to force their PIP and UC cuts through the Commons on Tuesday. And there’s a strong chance that their dubious promise to exempt current claimants from the cuts is, in reality, only a two year reprieve.
REASONS TO REBEL
If it’s wrong to push current claimants into poverty, why is it right to do so to hundreds of thousands of future claimants?
The Bill has become a confusing shambles. MPs will have at most a single day to study the proposed amendments protecting current claimants, the PIP review terms of reference and any other new documents before they vote.
Ministers are rushing the bill through with as little discussion and scrutiny as possible. They say it is urgent, but the PIP changes don’t come into force for another 16 months, so they could have been the subject of a separate bill next year.
Claimants have not been consulted on the changes in the current bill at all.
A committee process that should take weeks or even months, looking at amendments and getting advice from experts, will all be done in a single afternoon on 9 July, as the government rushes the bill through.
The government wants the bill to be certified as a money bill, preventing the House of lords from having any say over it.
MPs will be voting without seeing a formal impact assessment of the effect of the bill on health or care needs or the Office For Budget Responsibility assessment of how many people will move into work as a result of the changes.
The protection from the 4-point rule for current claimants may only last until 2028, when new PIP rules are due to be introduced.
Disability charities and trades unions are still very much against the bill, even with concessions.
The PIP exemption for current claimants may only be a temporary respite, as the rules for PIP eligibility are to be changed in 2028, with a view to cutting costs.
The UC protection may be only temporary for 600,000 current claimants who get the UC health element but don’t get PIP daily living component. They may not be protected once the work capability assessment is abolished and PIP daily living is the gateway to the UC health element in 2028.
TEN MAJOR CHARITIES JOINTLY CONDEMN THE FLAWED CUTS BILL
Ten major charities have issued a joint briefing condemning the Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill.
These charities are: Scope, Trussel, Mind, Citizens Advice, Sense, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, New Economics Foundation, Child Poverty Action Group, Z2K, Turn2Us.
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