It is being widely reported that the on-again, off-again Green Paper on changes to welfare benefits will finally be published tomorrow, Tuesday 18 March..

Publication of the consultation document has been expected for weeks, but fears of a revolt forced Downing Street to delay the move in order to try to placate Labour MPs.

Meanwhile, the press has been awash with claims about what secretary of state for work and pensions Liz Kendall will announce, but there has been no official confirmation of any specific changes.

Benefits and Work will cover the provisions of the Green Paper, and what they may mean for our readers, once it has been released and we have had time to study its contents.

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    · 17 hours ago
    There are 800,000 job vacancies.
    There are 4,800,000 unemployed claimants. There will be 10,000,000+ unemployed claimaints within 5 years because of AI.

    Therefore, the net impact of these cuts to disabled welfare is to add more stress to disabled people. There is no economic benefit behind these cuts because the entire economic system will very soon need reforming.
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    · 18 hours ago

    Therefore, the net impact of these cuts to disabled peoples welfare = added stress for disabled people. There is zero economic point in these reforms as the entire economic system will very soon need reforming.
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    · 20 hours ago
    As lots of people have mentioned, it is only in Britain that there is an abnormal obsession with and relentless hatred towards disabled recipients of "welfare" from politicians and the media. This phenomenon doesn't exist in other welfare states. Everybody should mention this point at every opportunity. Highlight how abnormal it is to collectively constantly obsess over disabled welfare recipients. There are several other, far, far more important issues to obsess over.
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      · 13 hours ago
      @Anon The Government, aided by the media have created a moral panic around welfare benefit recipients.  It is the old divide and rule tactic and they think we are too thick to see it.
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    · 1 days ago
    Sent email to MP over concerns to intended leaked  cuts  to disability benefits 
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    · 1 days ago
    I don’t understand HOW Will getting disabled people back to work (although 60% of us already do!) reduce pip? They will still have the disability, and still have same needs for care and cost and still entitled to PIP? and ones who can’t cannot be cured miraculously after being told by doctors they are too unwell to work or employer can’t employ because they are too unwell making mistakes having lots of time of without notice due to flare ups and recurring illnesses due to low immunity etc will also STILL be entitled to PIP so how is this saving money ?? Unless making up more lies to not award very unwell and disabled people and causing even more stress and degrading assessments during the review and application process which in turn makes people even more unwell ! It’s ludicrous 
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      · 12 hours ago
      @Nat Not is not, and has never been, about getting more disabled people into work. It's always been about reducing the amount they receive in benefits. 
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    · 1 days ago
    The Devil will be in the detail,obviously a lot of scare stories going around,we've been here before and it's turned out to be a bit of a Paper Tiger, but this time it does seem its not going to be good News, especially for those on PIP with MH conditions. 
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    · 1 days ago
    I have never seen a benefits reduction, it looks like UC (sickness portion) is likely to change. 
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    · 1 days ago
    Seen the debate from today in gov don't know what to think very hard to understand all the info but I'm sure I heard that no  changes are comimg in this year unless I miss heard somewhere?  Sure it was heard more research is needed and more research with neuro diverse panel ect is needed  I pray what I heard is right but the green paper is apparently due tomorrow so anxiety is through the roof and must be for lots of people .
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    · 1 days ago
    I have relatives in Italy and even there where to access incapacity benefits is difficult only Britain seems to have this obsession with bashing disabled people. I find it disgusting and it's great knowing other people are cottoning on, people should complain to Ofcom, to IPSO to their MP as to why does the British establishment have an issue with disabled people.
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    · 1 days ago
    Has anyone brought up the point that many people will be beholden to their healthy partners if PIP is removed or made means tested. As it stands PIP is the only benefit paid to a qualifying person that is given solely to that person. Many people will be stuck in abusive living situations (financial being one of them) if this was to change. :( So short sighted. I haven't seen this POV given before. 
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      · 14 hours ago
      @Nat I am in the exact same position as you.
      I had worked for the CS for 42 yrs.
      My mental health deteriorated over time, despite reducing my hrs and taking my pension early, in order to assist us financially.
      3 yrs ago I was diagnosed with Bipolar amongst other things.
       The prospect of losing my PIP award would make me feel more of a burden than I do already.
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      · 1 days ago
      @Debbie I am in the exact position that had to give up work due to chronic conditions after 16 years keeping going reducing hours taking less stressful role etc till I made myself much worse now dependant on my husband alone who works 6 days a week and looks after me plus only entitled to pip as my husband works it’s a struggle and alot pressure on him too 
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      · 1 days ago
      @Debbie Indeed. This was exactly why my birth family stopped talking to me. I wanted to leave an abusive situation and they wanted me to stay in it (so I would have care) When I tried to leave they disowned me so they wouldn't have to support me in the future and to top it off social services pulled my outside care so that I had no.option but to stay in the situation. Yet I would have been far more likely to be able to find work if I'd been allowed to leave and move away 
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    · 1 days ago
    Please be careful of our right wing gutter press and don't allow them to change the narrative and loose your cool so you cannot fight back calmly and in a precise manner

    “If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”
    ― Malcolm X
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    · 1 days ago
    BTW this weird, relentless obsession that the government and media has with "cracking down" on the disability and sickness benefit system, massively exaggerating the fraud rate and forcing those with serious conditions into work is very much just a UK phenomenon. Other countries don't do this thing, even the USA!

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      · 13 hours ago
      @Anon "They do this only because they hate themselves. Self-hating people look for weak targets to bully."

      This so much and everything else you've said.

      The civil service is full of these types of abusive people.
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      · 19 hours ago
      @Dave Dee A bully picks on the weakest target. Which is why disabled people are obsessively targeted all year long, every year, in Britain. They are bullies. And since they cannot bully weak countries anymore, so they bully their own weakest demographic. They do this only because they hate themselves. Self-hating people look for weak targets to bully. Shine the mirror to them.
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      · 1 days ago
      @Gawayn I urge people to complain to Ofcom and IPSO about this, Britain is the only country in Western Europe which has this issue with disabled people and it's creepy. People in high places within Disability lobbies and the like should contact the UN.
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    · 1 days ago
    This is concerning ill people do not choose to be ill they would swap it in a hart beat This is cruel and rong they need to tred carefully as this could push people to get worse and they need to reconsider for the helth or people we are human beings not just a number 
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    · 1 days ago
    I work part time and get pip does anybody know how this will affect people like me who work part time and get pip and will pip be means tested 
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      · 1 days ago
      @John I get the lower daily living, which allows me to work part time. I live with daily pain from 2 spinal ops and gave had cancer twice. I don't score 4 points on any questions so it looks like I will loose my PIP. I am so worried as I can't work anymore hours as I end up in agony. 

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      · 1 days ago
      @John PIP isn't going to be means tested.
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    · 1 days ago
    It might be worth e-mailing our MPs (especially if your MP happens to be Labour) to make it clear why these cuts would be so disastrous and to say that you won't vote for them next time round if they support this. They may not give a toss about us, but they do care about keeping ther seats.
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      · 14 hours ago
      @tintack I email mine he's the lib dem Charlie maynard, this is the bare bones of it .
      " Other improvements would include:
      Reducing the wait for the first Universal Credit payment from five weeks to five days
      Increasing work allowances and introducing a second earner work allowance
      Reforming Universal Credit to be more supportive of the self-employed
      Increasing Local Housing Allowance in line with average rents in an area

      Those are some of the measures that me and my Liberal Democrat colleagues will be arguing for, when the Government bring forward details of their proposals. "
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      · 1 days ago
      @tintack I’ve been drafting one for the past week and it’s as strongly worded as I can make it - as my MP is Liz Kendall herself 🤮! just waiting to see the actual facts of the matter tomorrow to make it on point. If I had the capacity I would go to her office to show her exactly what impact these changes will have. Like many others I am devastated and full of panic at a time when stability and security is needed the most. Hospital tomorrow for myself and PIP Assesment on Wednesday for my mother - yet still needing to find time and energy to fight for our right to survive! Hang in there community and make your voice count! 🫶
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    · 1 days ago
    Very anxious over this.  When is the announcement from Kendal so I can avoid it? 
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    · 1 days ago
    Some likely ideas on tomorrow's announcement. This link allows you to view it without going through a pay all. Fingers crossed everyone that it won't be TOO bad.  https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/what-welfare-cuts-could-labour-announce-tomorrow-from-pip-to-universal-credit/ar-AA1ACMTE
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    · 1 days ago
    I'm sick with panic. Are they seriously going to stop PIP for autistic people??
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      · 13 hours ago
      @sevenbees Thank you sevenbees and Emma.
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      · 17 hours ago
      @Emma They always do this when someone moves from DLA to PIP - it’s rare for them not to. They have reduced my autistic daughter down to 0 points twice now. I put in an RFI for the DWP documents and their own departments stated ‘will not improve so no need to reassess’. Despite that they still keep assessing her. Cruel is to kind a word for the way this country and its government treat disabled people. I hope you get things sorted. 
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      · 1 days ago
      @Anon I am autistic myself and I also have bipolar disorder type 2 and I am receiving standard rate PIP and if these changes that the times reported two days ago true, I will lose my award when my PIP is due for renewal because I scored 8 points in 4 activities.

      I guess we have to focus on one activity which is preparing food and the other activity we can focus on too is mixing with other people to get the 4 points required.

      I know your feeling because I have been living this feeling since April 2024 when they first proposed changes to exclude less visible disability.

      So stay calm and respond to the coming consultation. 





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      · 1 days ago
      @Anon I feel the same, my daughter has autism she hasn't been to school since the age of 11 she dosent leave the house has very bad anxiety, now she is 16 we had to change it to pip from dla is been declined so we have asked for a reconsideration, so it shows this was always going to be the plan with mental health, I don't think people understand how mental health autism adhd ect really affect people 😢 
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    · 1 days ago
    i dont understand which benifit pays the avarage wage which they say is 36k.

    benifits are very very far from that figure.
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      · 1 days ago
      @A If you count the full rate of PIP + LCWRA + money for your rent + council tax reduction, it would be the same as the take home pay (after tax) of someone earning that figure.  But this is where the mistakes are made. Instead of reducing that figure, or adding more bands to PIP, they are disqualifying people from having it completely through new eligibility rules - resulting in people possibly losing thousands of pounds a year.  
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    · 1 days ago
    Will they stop pip payments straight away or will it take a few months to see the payments stop? If you’re not eligible that is? 
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      · 15 hours ago
      @Dave Evans They can't stop PIP that you are already on and have been awarded. It WILL take a long time for all this to  go through the different stages of Parliament and court challenges. Certainly won't be immediate.
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      · 15 hours ago
      @Dave Evans It’s only a green paper, it will take years to implement
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      · 1 days ago
      @Dave Evans You would most likely have to be reassessed first.  And remember these are just proposals at this stage -just as the tory proposals of vouchers last year.  That didn't happen -and almost certainly wouldn't have happened if they stayed in power.  

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