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I see the government are not ruling out means testing dla and pip amongst other benefits.
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Robert
I see the government are not ruling out means testing dla and pip amongst other benefits.Can’t see it happening, many disabled people work and earn good money but need their cars and carers. It would be so discriminatory it would create a shit storm for the government.
Enyaq EV
I wouldn’t rule anything out with the Two crooks Sunak and Hunt. Remember Hunt last timehe was chancellor!
I do think they say things just to get peoples backs up and put the fear of God in them. Sunak has already started to follow leaders beforehim by making screeching U-Turns. If they do decide to go ahead with it there will be that much uproar it will lead to another U-Turn shortly afterwards.
The Tories like easy targets such as the poor and disabled, but as @Jojoe has said it will be so discrimintory shit would hit the fan and they would be up the creak without a paddle.
They also seem to forget the poor, disabled and pensioners also have a voice when voting comes along.
I would imagine a lot of it is scaremongering after all we are easy targets.
Unfortunately I have suffered a brain injury and occasionally I get confused and often say the wrong thing.
Means testing could just mean making disability benefits subject to income as state pension already is.
No, to the DWP, means testing means subject to what you have coming in and what you have in savings, just like UC.
It would be disastrous if PIP became means tested. How many of us would lose our cars? Savings over £6k? Hand your car back.
I’m hoping it might mean new claimants to PIP only will be means tested. Still unfair, but this is the Conservatives we’re talking about.
Alternatively, anyone who has reached pensionable age, like I did it August this year, once your reach pensionable age you cannot make a new claim for DLA or PIP.
If that is the case, I will have to hand back the Motability car and go back to work.
Unfortunately I have suffered a brain injury and occasionally I get confused and often say the wrong thing.
Alternatively, anyone who has reached pensionable age, like I did it August this year, once your reach pensionable age you cannot make a new claim for DLA or PIP.
I understood it, if you were claiming PIP/DLA prior to state pension age you can carry on claiming it. If you had not made a claim prior and up to state pension age you could not claim PIP/DLA and would have to claim attendance allowance.
I believe any change would require new legislation, so nothing structural is going to change soon, if at all.
Unfortunately I have suffered a brain injury and occasionally I get confused and often say the wrong thing.
Surely this would have to be passed through not only parliment but also lords, unless they do similar to how incapacity benifit changed without legislation.
If _unt does go ahead with it, I would hope the current bennifits cap will be increased for those that claim PIP and other disability benifits.
Unfortunately, I cannot foresee benefits or pension increasing in line with inflation, I am just hoping they don’t mean test my PIP, my brain injury is working overtime, I have had virtually no sleep from past 2 nights.
Unfortunately I have suffered a brain injury and occasionally I get confused and often say the wrong thing.
my brain injury is working overtime, I have had virtually no sleep from past 2 nights.
Try not to worry about it untill the time comes, its more than likely just Tory hot air.
The Nasty party should have known better than putting the fear of god in the ill and disabled through their blatent scaremongering!
I think they will be as evil and nasty as they want for the next two years, everyone knows the Torys are finished for a generation. They wont be back in power till at least the mid 2030’s at the earliest.
Everyone here is right, they always go for the disabled and poor. If they bring in anything else to punish hard working people I’ll be off to sit in a dinghy on the beach. At least I’ll get 3 square meals and a five star hotel!
If anything should be means tested, it should be Sunak’s salary!If they scrapped the second stage of the stupid HS2 it would save them £50 billion, the HS2 is designed to knock 20 or so minute of your train journey time?
Unfortunately I have suffered a brain injury and occasionally I get confused and often say the wrong thing.
OscarmaxParticipant
If they scrapped the second stage of the stupid HS2 it would save them £50 billion, the HS2 is designed to knock 20 or so minute of your train journey time?HS2 is a white elephant, but the fact they’ll go ahead with the line to Birmingham and possibly scrap the line to Manchester and Leeds will cause a lot of problems for them, levelling up, red wall etc.
I have been viewing the feedback in benefit and Works site, if mean testing PIP was to go ahead applicants would have to reapply for their PIP, those who are of pensionable age would not be entailed to reapply for PIP only AA (which will be mean tested), which obviously does not include the mobility component.
What an evil sneaky way
Unfortunately I have suffered a brain injury and occasionally I get confused and often say the wrong thing.
Which they wouldn’t do. The task would be mammoth. Very simple just to make payments subject to income tax.
Our local MP is Torie, I have look at her track record, she is definitely anti disability I would be better off writing to Putin.
Unfortunately I have suffered a brain injury and occasionally I get confused and often say the wrong thing.
Our local MP is Torie, I have look at her track record, she is definitely anti disability I would be better off writing to Putin.
That applies to 99.9% of Tory MP’s
I have savings over £6k, so if I lost PIP, I’d lose Motability car.
The next day I’d have to use ALL more savings to buy a car. So I’d automatically be eligible for PIP.
No doubt I’d have to reapply, costing DWP more money, only to end up back on PIP. A totaly waste of time with plenty of stress for me and no benefit for the DWP/tax payer.
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