Reform want to cut PIP

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Reform want to cut benefits for disabled people. They want businesses to pay more towards sickness etc. I find it repulsive that they want to do this. When will people understand that they are a bunch of self interested sharks who want to make a stack of dosh for themselves while in govt and that they font give a damn about anyone in need. Why cant the most vulnerable ppl who vote for them see thus. It's astonishing. It's ac joke. I eish ppl who get what Reform.iscreally about and how it manipulates would make sn extra effort to tslk to.ppl who dont seem to get it.

I don’t think this is the case as before the current dip in polls the only time Reform went down was when they talked about cutting the two child benefit cap.

Jenrick has since changed position on that as he probably realises their voters don’t want it.

On the op £50bn a year in cuts is a lot.

Pretty sue anyone with a disability severe enough to get PIP would gladly swap lives with you.

Yes my sons DLA is part of our general income as will his PIP be once its awarded
But we spend a fortune on clothes , furniture etc as hes so destructive
Hes flooded the bathroom and kitchem several times causing a lot of damage as hes obssessd with running water.

Children get Disability Living Allowance.

Loads are just having their awards automatically extended currently.

These are in work benefits we are discussing though. People have lifelong chronic illnesses so a stop gap isn't going to help them.

Sounds good to me. Too many people climbing on this particular gravy train. And the fact you can claim regardless of whether you earn £150 a week or £150k a week is absolutely obscene. Of course people are going to rant and stamp their feet. Hard to have to give up something so generous when you’re used to getting it. The UK is slowing sinking to the level of a third world country. We need to save money, and in my opinion the first issue to look at is the Welfare bill.

Can you describe what most disabled means?

Also Reform want introduce an direct insurance based health care to replace the NHS.

What are your thoughts on the £5 million donation to Farage?

What is costing a shit tin is the interest repayment on the national debt but that never seems to be talked about.

Reform will need to cut benefits massively. How else are they going to force people to do the jobs that we currently expect immigrants to do?

More nonsense.

True.

I know someone who has gets PIP for anxiety yet is able to go out alone, ride a bike around the village, go away most weekends to her caravan. God knows how she qualifies for it. this is not severe disability.

Kids don’t get PIP. Also, my teenager is blind and has a rare autoimmune disease that requires weekly chemotherapy. She would like a job, like her peers, but which cafe would hire a blind waitress or which shop a cashier who can’t see the banknotes or the contactless device?

State pension applies too no matter what you earn. Should we scrap that too for people with loads of private pension? If not, why not? It's the same principle.

Can you show me the data where people earning £150k are bothering to claim PIP?

No wonder they are so unpopular on here.

Areas with high numbers of benefit claimants, such as Clacton, strongly support parties proposing welfare cuts. Many voters either believe they won’t personally be affected because they believe their claim or those of friends and family are genuine and others are not, or prioritise other issues above their own financial interests.

DD1 has severe, uncontrolled epilepsy. When she has a seizure, she is incontinent. She wears incontinence pants, but there is a limit to what they can take. While we do have a waterproof mat for her to sit on in the car, she can still wet or worse over the edges of it. (She can have urine or diarrhoea down to her ankles after a big seizure)

We have leather seats in her Motability car, because they are easier to clean. Nobody wants to buy a three year old car, with cloth seats stinking of urine, etc? Do they?

Why make pronouncements on conditions, you haven’t even conceived exist?

Well someone earning that money will still be paying far more tax than they will ever receive in PIP every year.

Good, it is to help with the backlog of claimants, due to the inefficiency of the whole system. They should concentrate on sorting that out!

The Netherlands and Scandinavia have built support into their systems in all sorts of ways and ppl are respected no.matter who they are. You can therefore have that system in the Netherlands because it's just one part of a support net that catches ppl when they fall. The whole mi ndset of those countries is different. Over here there is much more ill will and mean mindedness stoked by a miserable media that tells lies about disabled ppl. Ppl are brainwashed in this country ans Reform just uses that mindset to further divide and rule. There has been an orchestrated effort by the right now for a long time to divide and smash the working class so that the old solidarities dont exist. Once ppl are divided from each other there is no solid powerbase from which they can bargain for better conditions. And I'm no raving red flag waving lunatic saying that. I'm just an ordinary average person observing the shift that has been going on. I brlieve the British are a decent lot and for years now our goodwoll has been manipulated and sistorted for the benefit if a few..zPeople need to get a grip and wake up..

@charliehungerford fuck me, your bar for a "nice life" is pretty low if you think a drug and alcohol addicted stroke victim who is dependent on state benefits is living the high life.

Thats an awful lot of very personal info to share with a complete stanger
The kids would be getting DLA not PIP
If it makes you feel any better my son is profoundly autistic and currently gets the highest rates of DLA and we havent been abroad for 18 years
We last a caravan holiday two years ago
Not had any kind of holiday since as we cant afford it.

You haven't answered my question. What do you mean by severe disability? And can they not enjoy a day out?

It'll be a popular policy. The benefits bill has to be tackled in a meaningful way, not tiny trims.