No benefits if unemployed for more than a year and other ways Sunak wants ti tackle the Benefits system

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This are the headlines - I can see some massive issues here for people - it's easy to say there are job vacancies - but what if they aren't in the area people are and there is no transport to get there. How does that work? I can see a lot of exploitation here.

There's also the other rules here around PIP payments, part time workers etc.

I wonder how much personal experience Sunak has of such things?

This is an outline from the Daily Mail

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13330045/Benefits-axed-year-stop-lifestyle-choice-Prime-Minister.html

12-month rule for unemployed

Tory manifesto plans will see people on the dole have their benefit claims closed after a year unless they can convince Jobcentre staff they are actively looking for work and willing to accept any reasonable job offer.

Personal Independence Payments

Hundreds of thousands of people with anxiety and depression could lose access to payments worth up to £700 a month and instead be offered therapy to help them back to work.

PART-TIME WORKERS

New rules will require part-time workers on Universal Credit to look for more work. Anyone working for less than the equivalent of 18 hours a week on minimum wage will have to show they are actively seeking more hours.

Disability rules

The work capability assessment rules, which govern who is eligible for sickness benefits, will be tightened to require 424,000 with milder mental health conditions to start looking for work.

Sick notes

GPs could be stripped of their role in signing off people as sick and replaced by 'specialist work and health professionals' who will focus on what work people could do with support, such as flexibility to work from home.

Benefit Fraud

Investigators will be handed new powers to tackle benefit fraud, which hit £6.4 billion last year. In future they will have similar powers to those investigating tax fraud, including the ability to make seizures and arrests

Why would you keep on having dc if this was the case.

As a single parent , I work part time 24 hours a week, If I didn't get help from UC I wouldn't be able to afford the childcare costs which enable me to go to work!

Well, most people wouldn't and it would be vanishingly rare, I was just giving an example. The media has probably convinced a lot of people that their are loads of families of 10 children who are claiming dla for imaginary conditions though so I thought I would point out that you can't just have a load of children, let them run feral, decide they all have adhd and watch the money roll in. It maybe just my fil who thinks you can do that but I like to point out the reality sometimes just in case there are more people like him.

Yes I understand that😀

Benefits don't pay for everything you have to Rob Peter to pay Paul most months and that's without the luxuries that some people seem to have being on Benefits I have a basic life I'm a full time carer for my daughter who is autistic and adhd I don't get carer's allowance because it's taken off your other benefits leaving you with the same amount of benefits you were getting the first place I had to give my car up because I cant afford it so I don't know where you get your information from but I hardly think £800 per month is a whole lot to live on when you have 2 neuro-diverse kids who want to go to zoos and big theme parks for days out not that I take them the zoo on an occasional trip as a treat but they are mainly stuck around the door