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Quarter of a million into poverty, 370,000 to lose PIP daily living

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The savagery of Labour’s cuts to benefits was laid bare today, with the revelation that 250,000 people, including 50,000 children, will be plunged into relative poverty as a result of benefits cuts.  370,000 current PIP claimants are expected to lose their PIP daily living component when their award is reviewed after November 2026.

Figures from the Office For Budget Responsibility (OBR) and the DWP’s own impact and equality assessments emphasise how these cuts are aimed almost solely at disabled people.

According to the DWP:

  • Just 0.1 million families with no disability in the household will lose out, 4% of all those affected.
  • 1 million families with some disability in the household will lose out, 96% of all those affected.

This represents one in five of all families with a disabled person in the household. The average loss will be £1,720 per year compared to inflation. 

370,00 current PIP recipients are expected to lose entitlement to the daily living component on review after November 2026, plus 430,000 future recipients.  The average loss is £4,500 per year.

2.25 million current recipients of UC Health (LCWRA) will be hit by the freeze to this element, with an average loss of £500 a year– although they benefit from the increase in the standard allowance.

In reality, the effects of the cuts could be even greater.

58% of new PIP claimants and 52% of PIP award reviews do not score any 4 point daily living descriptors.  So, on the face of it, this would reduce the number of people getting PIP daily living by 1.5 million by 2029-30, virtually one third. 

But the OBR guesses, and they admit it is only guesswork, that the actual number who lose the daily living component will be reduced to 800,000 because people will fight harder to be awarded a 4 point descriptor, including by challenging decisions.

Whatever the final figure, these cuts represent an unprecedented attack on disabled people that many Labour MPs must be desperate to avoid taking responsibility for. 

But, probably within a month or two, they will have to start trooping through the division lobbies to show their wholehearted support for a policy of impoverishing disabled families in order to balance the books.

You can download the DWP Impact assessment and the equality analysis from the bottom of this page

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    Cyberpunk
    · 6 days ago

    Here's an AI analysis of poverty



    For the UK, a household is generally considered to be in poverty if their income is below 60% of the median household income (after housing costs).

    In simple cash terms, for the 2023/24 period:

    For a single adult with no children: approximately £14,000-£15,000 per year (or about £270-£290 per week)

    For a couple with two children: approximately £28,000-£29,000 per year (or about £540-£560 per week)

    These figures vary slightly depending on whether you're considering income before or after housing costs, and they are regularly updated as median incomes change.

    The exact poverty threshold also depends on household composition and local housing costs, especially in more expensive areas like London.
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    Anniesmum
    · 6 days ago
    Will it be challenged by the human rights watchdog? (Sorry for got what it’s called) as it is pure discrimination surely? 
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    Green Party voter
    · 6 days ago
    I left labour before the general election very sad to watch all this theirs going to be a lot of disabled people and children living in poverty if all this goes threw very cruel and heartless they don’t care 
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    G R
    · 6 days ago
    The fact that there seems to be ‘enough’ money in the pot to increase the basic / standard amount of U C to recipients who are able or willing to work, but the disabled are going to lose out and have their benefit frozen, is downright cruel.  
    With PIP, those who do not achieve the craftily created new 4 points rule, will lose out altogether…. Whilst the mobility element is untouched.  So a person may be entitled to claim mobility (and so they should….) but apparently now need no help at home whatsoever, with largely the same disability?  Then there is the knock on effect of losing related benefits such as council tax relief and the ability to fund some paid help. 
    Disgusting behaviour from a once compassionate labour government.  
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      naheegan
      · 5 days ago
      @G R There also seems to be enough money for Reeves to commit an extra 2B for new build housing. 
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      G R
      · 5 days ago
      @Ala Ala I didn’t say that UC is high….. but how can it be right to punish disabled who canNOT work, as if they are not worthy OF ANY dignity, indeed halving and then freezing their help? It makes no sense.
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      Ala
      · 6 days ago
      @G R Your thinking is just wrong!   The UC is way to low!   But, the help for the dissabled should be improved, not just cut!
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    Clay
    · 6 days ago
    It is bad but have you heard the Conservatives talking about it. They keep saying they'd have gone much further and this cut isn't enough. 
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      Clay
      · 5 days ago
      @Dave Dee @Dave Dee I know, but we have no way out of this, do we?  So we have to look for the positives, I guess, and hope there is a brighter, compassionate future for us because I believe most people are actually kind.
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      Dave Dee
      · 6 days ago
      @Clay Two wrongs really don't make a right, disabled people should suffer no cuts. 
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      MJ
      · 6 days ago
      @Clay Whataboutism. I don't care much for the Tories but they aren't in power, this government is, these actions are being carried out by Labour, "what about them over there" just takes the heat off what appalling cuts THIS government are doing and doesn't help us, it is what the Labour hierarchy wants and there are always useful id**** ready to oblige unfortunately. 
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    missk
    · 6 days ago
    I’ve listened to the statement read everything I can , but still can’t find what will happen to people like me of which I’m sure there are many, well past working age, I’m half way through a ten year award with a light touch review at the end,,will I still be called for another assessment 
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    Bern400
    · 6 days ago
    1 million families with some disability in the household will lose out, 96% of all those affected.
    This represents one in five of all families with a disabled person in the household. The average loss will be £1,720 per year compared to inflation. Wow!!!!!!!!!! 
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      Gingin
      · 6 days ago
      @Jagang Yes we will lose a similarly huge amount as well- PIP, LCWRA and UC carer’s element. Nothing like £1700 per year, more like £1000 per month
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      Anon
      · 6 days ago
      @Jagang I'm exactly the same losing around 12k a year leaving me either my tiny medical retirement pension roughly £3,750 a year,yes medical retirement pension!! Doesn't that say anything at all because it should speak volumes it means I CANT WORK ANYMORE!!
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      Jagang
      · 6 days ago
      @Bern400 From what i can work out, worst case for me i will lose £12000 a year , leaving me at £4,725 p.a

      Hope i am wrong and that the benefits calculator i used didn't work right.
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    clearwater
    · 6 days ago
    My heart goes out to all those affected by all these dreadful new changes, I have recently had my PIP reviewed and awarded until 2035 ( 10 years) and will retired almost 10 years by then, im wondering if they will review awards again before that?   
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      J
      · 6 days ago
      @clearwater Just a  check to ask 8fthingsare the same it's an indefinite awardaftet retirement
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      sara
      · 6 days ago
      @clearwater They shouldn't review it more than 18 months before the award is due to run out, but who knows what adjustments will be made to the goal posts? As things stand I'd say you're ok, but stay aware of the rules going forward.
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      missk
      · 6 days ago
      @clearwater I’m wondering the same it’s long time off but it is a worry I’m half way through my ten years 
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    smalltrace
    · 6 days ago
    I'm nearly 48 and have never seen such a savage cruel government. First they attack oaps, then the physically and mentally disabled and sick, without even doing basic thought analysis of the consequences both in expense to other departments and the harms caused. I've asked several AI its interpretation and none come out in support agreeing with all the logical impacts. It's essentially an exercise in demonising and dividing the people of this country against each other. It's pure evil because it's never going to solve the problem anyway. I'm on benefits and I know the system needs tweeking, the right tweaks I'd support (even if I was affected)these are not at all the right tweeks. Nobody with a disability should be forced into both horrific stress of the system of poverty, especially if no actual job can or could suit them. Even if a certain job would, it still would have to be found and the person in a position to do it. I'm all for giving every encouragement and opportunity to disadvantaged people, but that needs a reality check if no such employment exists, or no employer would take them, or the attempts to do so would negatively impact the person. Im already banging my head against walls with the switch from esa to uc. Already noticing even with all the info the dwp have for me, they still choose to default to not paying it any attention. This is the fear of removing the work capability assessment, if pen pushers are deciding what you are or are not capable of doing.
    This government are pretty much the last nail in my coffin, and I'm sadly certain there will be others. The current government and any mp who votes in favour of the changes as they stand, should face at minium manslaughter charges. This isn't balancing the books, this is a direct attack on the people on society who already face the greatest hurdles in life.
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      larry b
      · 4 days ago
      @smalltrace well said,for any politician, with a fuctioning brain to just think they can do this,without serious consequences woe betide them.
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      robbie
      · 6 days ago
      @smalltrace What reason could anyone have for down voting @smalltrace? Have the guts to explain yourself.
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    freddy
    · 6 days ago
    never in a million years will the dwp get away with this, its sicking just reading it never mind been on the receiving end, there is still hope i believe.
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      Bern400
      · 6 days ago
      @freddy @freddy i fear all these cuts will be passed successfully in forthcoming commons vote. Labour has a 200 seat majority of MP's and the Tories are unlikely to vote against this because they recently said Rachael Reeves should cut disability benefits a lot further than she's proposing to do!!!!!!
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      smalltrace
      · 6 days ago
      @freddy I hope you are right, but I fear the determination of both labour and conservatives in making very extreme alterations is against us. They have been waging a campaign of hate building in the media and public. Conservatives I think will sadly be very much in favour because it's harsher than their ideas, so they get to blame Labour for it.
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    Bert
    · 6 days ago
    We have had the good times
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      Tim
      · 5 days ago
      @Anon @Anon I had the same experience twice with NHS councillors (years apart) and they were both totally useless basically telling me that I knew what the problems were, they couldn’t help so “Just get on with it”. Both times I felt worse after seeing them than before I went in. This makes me wonder about all those other people now waiting for mental health counselling. After waiting years for an appointment are they going to be told the same thing as in my cases?. I did see a private councillor once and he was fantastic, brutal, but he really helped me out mentally. With no offence to the NHS who have been fantastic with me in other areas their councillors were atrocious and not fit for purpose (I even told my Dr that but she said that was as good as it gets on the NHS).
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      Anon
      · 6 days ago
      @smalltrace I became mentally ill in 2005 in November to be exact ,my Dr offered me no help whatsoever for 7 years then sent me to the Councillor attached to the gp surgery,I told her all about my panic disorder and agoraphobia and my accident that caused it and my continuing ptsd and the great difficulties I was having just being here  she didn't know what panic disorder or panic attacks were and told me she couldn't help me!!  
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      bert
      · 6 days ago
      @Dave Dee It affects me as well but I saw all this coming years ago, its not one big gravy train.
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      Dave Dee
      · 6 days ago
      @Bert Why are you allowed to constantly troll and gaslight people? Nobody in the real world think of being disabled is "good times" unless none of this actually effects you.
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      MJ
      · 6 days ago
      @drongobackfires They are Labour shrills, always making excuses for this government and trying to play down the cuts. Don't feed them. 

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