One in six PIP claimants have no extra costs linked to their disability

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https://www.thesun.co.uk/money/40693771/pip-claimants-disability-benefit/
So, can money be saved here?

We can no longer trust parents to make sensible decisions. I think it should all be rerouted into breakfast, lunch and dinner clubs at schools so the state can at least control what they eat and do after school, and they just go home to sleep pretty much.

Child maintenance usd to be counted as income for benefits. But so many fathers were simply not paying the maintenance they were supposed to, that the benefit system had to scrap this system.

I am an adult on LCRWA and PIP.

Right

Why is everyone assuming they asked the teenagers? Presumably the researchers are professionals in their fields and would know that teenagers are obviously not going to be sighted on the additional costs and thus ask those that are financially responsible for them?

I think it’s a rabbit hole to assume the researchers asked clueless teenagers and as a result got the wrong answer!

Define "little treat".

For a neurotypical person, a ready meal instead of scratch cooking is a little treat. For me (autistic), it's often the difference between eating or going hungry when I get home from work. I used all my energy and brain power at work and have nothing left for feeding myself when I get home.

One person's little treat is another person's coping mechanism.

A lot of people are exhausted after work.

Yes, but you are comparing yourself to disabled people.
Apples and oranges.

Can you define what you mean by “rich” please?

I’m assuming not the top 10% as they already pay more than 60% of income tax which is presumably already more than their fair share.

So who specifically do you mean, and how much should they be paying for it to be fair?

Why should those who are unfortunate enough to be disabled be penalised for something that was never their choice? You can't argue to keep the State Pension for all and argue that PIP should be means-tested, that's plain hypocritical.

They never answer this..,

There's "tired" and there's "walking into things levels of dizzy" and "turn all the lights off levels of photophobia". My autism looks like the latter two.

Land value tax.

So turn the lights off why does that need PIP.

Yes, let’s bankrupt our farmers so we have no food.

Land value tax will hit the biggest landowners with the primest, most valuable land and they can't hide it in the Cayman Islands.

Farmers.

Farmland isn't all that valuable, not compared to London urban real estate.

So taxing people who bought their house cheap 40 years ago, who don’t actually have the cash to pay it?

You have missed the point entirely… I simply advocated for pensions not to be means tested.

I said nothing in relation to PIP being means tested. You’ve invented that bit.

Duke of Westminster. Oxford and Cambridge universities. Royal Family. Church of England.

I think we worked out on another thread if we actually did this it wouldn’t even cover the cost of SEN school taxis for 4 counties or similar.

You’re missing the point.

PP was stating people should be careful what they wish for as they never know what’s around the corner ie the event hasn’t happened yet. Thats what insurance is for…

Clearly insurance isn’t for events that have already happened…by definition.

However, there are still ways to get insurances for yet to come events that discount your history. Many insurances that you can buy through workplaces operate like this. I’ve personal experience as I’ve had to go down this route for a few insurances for a couple of reasons (one medical meaning insurers don’t touch it, the other I do what insurers consider high risk activity so exclude it).

So it’s possible. But clearly only for risks yet to materialise

They can. But not everyone qualifies. That doesn't mean they don't have debilitating and expensive conditions, just that they don't quite meet the criteria.

1. The tax is on the value of the unimproved land in its current setting, not the house built on it.
2. Land value tax will precipitate a long-overdue downward correction in house prices as land becomes a tax liability instead of a pure asset. This will help more people to get on the housing ladder.
3. If you can't afford your home, downsize, we are constantly told. Anyone who finds that the unearned wealth in the form of the massive value increase of the land their house stands on is too much to pay the tax on is free to move somewhere with a lower land value.