The autumn budget should cut benefits before increasing tax

[Leett]

There is talk of Labour breaking their election pledge and increasing income tax by 2p. I doubt they'd do that because voters will revolt. However they need to do something with the state pension due to increase by 4.7% next year.
I really hope they cut benefits / pensions before the deciding to increase taxes.

Fml where are all these mythical well paid jobs? You do realise we need a lot of people to do so called low paid jobs like carers, cleaners and retail staff. Not every working age person has the capacity to do longer hours either because they have an illness that allows them to work but not full time or children or elderly parents to care for thus saving the state money.

Getting rid of net zero would be a good step

If you are a true consultant IR35 didn’t affect you at all though. It affected people who were working as a full time employee for a company and claiming to be a consultant so they could avoid paying PAYE and instead run the money though their company to pay less tax.

Im on about those who are working age though.
what is it without pensions & attendance allowance?

They will never get rid of it, ed would have a meltdown.

If you don't want to be at the beck and call of the bond markets you need to borrow less from them. You can't blame the bank for the the size of your mortgage.

There's a complete reluctance to reckon with the way things are, as opposed to the way things were or the way people want things to be and the moment and MP tries to disabuse people of that misunderstanding then they are punished for it.

If we are lucky, France will go to the wall and we'll have a working example of what happens when people indulge in that delusion before we run out of time to do something about it ourselves.

Come to Scotland. Everyone gets free prescriptions. It's great, and free bus passes from 60. Of course we pay more tax to get them...sadly our other services are appalling. Especially health and education but no... keep the free prescriptions. It's crazy.

I'll never understand why people want pensions cutting. Do they not realise that they will grow old and benefit from it? It's so naive. We absolutely have to protect pensions at all costs, it is our priority.

As you've been through assessments for both you'd know how difficult they are to get

They need to sort the pip assessment out so that so much money isn't wasted by so many going to tribunal and winning. 70% win so there's clearly something wrong with the assessment

I have very mild asthma, my friend’s son has a peanut allergy. Neither of us can work in the military either. Devastating for my friend’s son - less so for me.

we have many ND employees so I probably am rather base about it in general terms. Our data team and many doctors have many autistic employees - their approach is beneficial.

i think the challenge in understanding comes because there’s a huge difference between high functioning and those with huge developmental delays.

You're not propping me up thanks.
I work full time and get no state top ups.
I have 20+ years before I'm eligible for a state pension.

Totally agree OP. I read somewhere that there are rumours of scrapping the 2 child benefit cap? Eh? I thought they were trying to save money not spend more.

it just wouldn’t happen, would it.

they should all be means tested. The prescription charge should be cut in half but payable by everyone.

Literally this. Someone needs to abolish the triple lock as it’s way too expensive to maintain and not fair on the working person

I think maybe you have swallowed the myth that all pensioners are wealthy. They are not. Many have very limited budgets. They may own their homes but have very low incomes, surviving on the state pension alone, possibly with pension credits. Don't be fooled.

Isnt part of the reason we are f*cked because of the 2008 banking crisis? When the banks sold & loss billions of pounds? Whatever happened to that… why didnt the goverment try and claim that money back from the banks?
also what happened to the fraudulent covid company claims? i know a woman given 50k for a jam making business that she makes about £500 a year from… that all just got forgotten about too. Why is it always benefits? Why not go after the ones who scammed the tax payers?

Do you mean this?

The independent Office for Budget Responsibility forecasts that the bill for health and disability benefits will reach £100bn by 2030.

What's naive is thinking the state pension will still exist in 20 years. We won't benefit from it either way.

They have no clue what they are doing. The last thing we need is the workshy having more children. They should take the cap down to one child. If you want more than one child pay for it your fucking self. They probably end up putting employers NI up again - keep fucking up business.

Well then maybe they should have gone without during their working life and saved.

or is that only for my generation, who are berated for every purchase they make

To survive at the bare minimum you need quite a lot these days.

Are you aware that pensions including state pension credits for one single person is more than a single parent with two children would be expected to live on ?
They generally don’t own their own homes out right

It's not shall we tinker with the triple lock or shall we have fewer recipients on out of work benefits or should there be departmental cuts - we are delaying the inevitable answer that it is - all of the above. This is all on the never-never and our creditors are out of patience.

And how much do you think it's left over for someone who is not in receipt of UC, who does not get Council Tax reduction, or housing paid and all the additional reductions UC brings?