To think benefits need to be cut to fund increased spending on defence

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This is absolutely necessary. Keir Starmer shouldnt have backed down the last time. But now with the current situation with Russia drastic steps need to be taken. We simply can't afford to sustain the current benefits bill with the armed forces so depleted. The money is needed to increase defence.

Because you're spreading false information

And that !!

Carers allowance is normally awarded with someone working full time. It cannot be claimed if the person earns over £204 per week after deductions (i accept significant pension contributions can make this possible). If working full time and caring for 35 hours a week they deserve a bloody medal!

It can be claimed easily as no proof is required of what care is given or how much, it's just on good faith. I do believe people lie.

Medical and social care evidence only will help stop fraud. I can't think of one disabled person I know that would never have interacted with at least health care for their disability (inc mental health).

Caring carer is a buy to let landlord with multiple rental properties and investments which she goes on about on multiple threads on MN . Hypocrite as no doubt benefitting from other people claiming UC . Unbelievable really.

How can you read this thread about children severely disabled by cancer and people working for decades and then having a stroke

Are strawmen the best you can come up with?

Don't be rediculous. It isn't about envy, it's about fairness. You seem to be resorting to insults and bullying in order to asert you're opinion because you can't have a reasoned debate.

What false information exactly?

You are talking complete utter nonsense. I have a child who has PIP for MH, we had to send in meeting notes, lists of care and therapy she’s had, medication details etc as evidence.

That those of us with disabilities have a better standard of living and that disabled students get more support than the average student

Because the ONLY place to look for extra defence funding is welfare. How about asking corporations to pay their tax instead?

But you can make no argument to counter them other than insults?

Why exactly do you think the new send system will work? When was the last time tax rate thresholds were raised? Can you show me where carers can earn more than £204 after deductions? What evidence do you require for a sunflower lanyard? Is there not a set of tests to get smi for dla?

That people on benefits have a higher standard of living then people working full time jobs

A sunflower lanyard gets you sfa, the new SEND measures will focus funding on state schools
as opposed to diverting it to the private sector and will help support more children in school….

Disabled students do get more support than an average student. DSA, hall accomodation allocation, extra time for assignments where needed as examples they are more support than an average student.

I've wrote that those on benefits shouldn't have a better standard of living than those who work full time, i am inc disability benefits in that.

And where do you draw the line at perceived ‘excess’ given that the cost of living with a disability is considerable ? Or do you think PIP and child DLA are all spaffed up the wall on booze and tobacco as a lot of MN contributors seem to ? Perhaps disabled people should just sit out of sight all day and wait quietly to die ?

You seem to have no perception of what taking care of the vulnerable means. If you genuinely can’t work you shouldn’t have to live in poverty as you seem to think. Within my living memory disabled people were mostly institutionalised or didn’t live independently, which, these days would cost far more than disability benefits currently in payment. The institutions were abolished because disability support in the community is more cost effective and affords people more independence. That support is awarded according to need. To reduce it would disproportionately affect the most vulnerable in society. Why would you do that ?

I have no idea what a strawman is

It’s something posters come up with when they have no viable argument.

Why shouldn’t disabled students have the bar levelled at uni? Or do you just want them unable to attend and forever earning less and in need of more benefits?

It clearly isn’t as simple as saying “cut benefits” as if that is a magic charm
of course nobody in receipt of any type of benefit wants to see it cut by even the tiniest amount but it has to start somewhere
I would also add that I don’t necessarily think benefits should be cut to spend more on defence but any savings could be spent on other stuff - it could be used to properly fund schools and healthcare for example
Just because Labour have made a mess of it with every very poorly thought out cut they’ve attempted so far doesn’t mean it shouldn’t happen at all
I think everyone in receipt of any type of benefit could think about what they could do without- however small that might be
There are of course always people who could afford to pay a bit more and others who could pay significantly more. By this I don’t include those who receive their payments via a monthly pay cheque
The current tax system feels like too much of a blunt instrument and the tax bands are too wide

Which is another ill informed argument. Not all disabled students get these benefits. They are awarded to those who need them, so that they aren’t disadvantaged by their disability. It’s called levelling up support. You seem to begrudge it. Why ?

My example in regs to sunflower lanyard on this thread was security at the airport in UK- it does get you in either the disability queue or the fast track.

You may want to have a read of special needs jungle reviews of the send reforms or any other childrens disability charity apart from contact a family, Michael Charles on Facebook is a good one to follow too. It'll be interesting (sarcastically) to see all these send kids being supported in mainstream and the non send kids being supported alongside them. I gues I could be wrong on that and it will all work amazingly well.

If there is an opportunity to do so because the process allows it, yes people will take advantage of that.
Sadly such people ruin things for those genuinely in need of the money because they give the benefit a bad name by abusing it. Then it gets stopped.
Anyone exaggerating a benefit claim, a condition to get more, a higher rate, is risking it being stopped because the tolerance for abuse will increasingly get lower. And people will end up with vastly reduced amounts.

From the tone of the posts l think that’s the general idea. Interesting to note that throughout her posts the focus has been on the support and concessions available to disabled people, but not one word as to why they are needed, or he inequality that would ensue if they were reduced or withdrawn.

There needs to be more checks for Carers allowance. in my experience plenty are abusing it. Then on the other hand you have parents of disabled kids providing complex care 24/7and it just feels disgusting that they get so little. There needs to be significantly more checks and a higher rate for those providing high levels of care.

They only get the support they need because they're a disabled student. I'm entitled (or would be if I was a student) to extra time. I read much slower than the average person. Add to that the fatigue. And you really think I'm at an advantage?