Green Paper due tomorrow

Details: Published: 17 March 2025

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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Aw · 2 days ago
I've barely slept and my anxiety is through the roof. I won't go quietly I'll tell you that much. They want to remove whole swathes of the population from their statistics and expect no-one to notice? Good luck with that.
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  BeeBee · 2 days ago
  
  @Neal I really hope so. It's unconscionable. When I was in hospital in early 2022 for my gastro issues that were caused by COVID cough on top of existing bowel damage, the bed opposite had a lady younger than me who had been there since before Xmas. She had a stoma, could barely sit up long enough to have her bed made and couldn't walk but couldn't be sent home. She had been like that since she came off life support! Do they really think they can act like people who have LCWRA don't exist?!
  
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  nik · 2 days ago
  
  @Alex mine too, do they not understand mental illness. i ran my own business for years and suddenly it crept up on me and changed me forever, 20 years on i'm a mess, my aim every day is just to get through it. left on massive dose of meds with no help.
  
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  Louise Blackburn · 2 days ago
  
  @Cameron And we all need to respond to the green paper and all so contact our MP to tell them what we think .I'm luck hopefully as my MP is chair of the work and pensions committee
  
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  Michael · 2 days ago
  
  @Cameron No legislation or HIC vote required for changes to LCWRA.
  
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  Clive m stone · 2 days ago
  
  @Cameron It can take years for a green paper to ever become written in law... just proposals and nothing mre
  
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