2026-10-27 21:22 UTC
Just watched #TheExperiment
Ultimately it is a HUGE criticism of how #Disabled people are treated and, more worryingly, how easy the monetary value of life is placed upon them and how easily other able-bodied accept that.
Most visitors in the programme suss it but some are quite happy to accept.
In March 2025 Starmer wanted to radically cut benefits via changing #PIP
A DWP report "The cost of working age ill-health and disability that prevents work" has the following lines: "People who are too ill to work or have a disability cost the economy £240-£330bn a year"
That report was used by Stephen Timms to generate his primary government document proposing reforms and potential cuts to Personal Independence Payments (PIP) is the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) Green Paper titled "Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working", published on March 18, 2025.
Key horrific Proposals in that document
• Case Reductions: The Green Paper and its accompanying impact assessments originally aimed to reduce the PIP caseload by 400,000.
• The "4-Point Rule": Proposals estimated that around 800,000 people could lose the PIP daily living component due to stricter scoring thresholds (including roughly 370,000 existing claimants affected during routine award reviews).
• Scrapping the Work Capability Assessment (WCA): Plans included replacing the WCA with a single PIP assessment, meaning disabled individuals would need to qualify for the daily living component of PIP to receive health-related Universal Credit elements.
But, and this has been taken from gov.uk. ...
• Financial Savings Targets: The Department for Work and Pensions projected welfare savings of approximately £4.5 billion a year in working-age sickness and disability benefits by 2029/2030.
https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-10283/
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@peterbrown@mastodon.scot 2026-10-27 22:11
@Geri@veganism.social I fail to understand where this mentality is coming from