The benefit cap is to be reduced to 23,000 a year in London and 20,000 in the rest of the Country(solidifying the concept of regional benefit rates) Some major disability benefits are included in the cap, ESA(not those in support group) Severe Disability Allowance(particularly cruel cut). Guardian estimates some families will lose 60 pounds a week, but I think some disabled people are also going to lose considerable amounts. This is on top of cuts to ESA and freezes on all benefits, the poorest are paying for austerity.
New Social Security benefit cap to hurt hundreds of thousands, including disabled people.
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The benefit cap is to be reduced to 23,000 a year in London and 20,000 in the rest of the Country(solidifying the concept of regional benefit rates) Some major disability benefits are included in the cap, ESA(not those in support group) Severe Disability Allowance(particularly cruel cut). Guardian estimates some families will lose 60 pounds a week, but I think some disabled people are also going to lose considerable amounts. This is on top of cuts to ESA and freezes on all benefits, the poorest are paying for austerity.
Jackobi
swallows anything
That's an average figure, considering that the cap is currently £500 per week for families and single parents, and it's being cut to £385 outside London, that's a reduction of up to £115 per week which is cut from Housing Benefit.
seventh bullet
sovietwave
Not exactly the above but my old pensioner mother with arthritis and diabetes recently visited an Atos assessment centre before her DLA comes to an end. I had to tell her they're not there to help. I don't live with her but my housing costs are miniscule (lucky to have a mortgage and that'll be paid off in 5 years) so I can help her out with money. My brother's partner is a social worker so she has been good for advice. Others are much more vulnerable, alone, poorer. I am feeling murderous right now.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
on top of the NHS cuts again. These people really need to be thrown into a furnace. Slying it through the cunts. The fuck of it, they want us back to the spike.
seventh bullet
sovietwave
When it comes to our supposed social betters I've become more sanguinary in my thoughts as I've got older, not more mellow. Their heads on spikes more like.
ItWillNeverWork
Messy Crimbobs, fellow humans.
I wonder if the Labour Right will bother to fight this one.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
and satan will go to work on a snowplow
Of course not - don't you remember? The Labour party are not for people living on benefits - IIRC Rachel Reeves said so.
No point, he's a Progress member.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
even if he were Dennis Skinner rather than Chukka he'd not be able to do shit all. The whole system is so rigged it makes no difference. I know ye know this. But its so fucking frustrating. They cut and they lie and they fuck you over. Even the 'good' ones, they can't be trusted.No point, he's a Progress member.
HoratioCuthbert
Deep seated inconsequence
So organise one, facebook, easy. Bring spikes or placards if you wish.
Good on you for being around to help, much respect. As a carer i've seen too many victims of such neglect. If i didnt have a boy relying on me i might have been well up for yon murder spree.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
its the dawning realisation that there is no saviour in strongmen and top down socialism articulated by various flavour. Well it is for me anyway. You start to think about how and when could we off them. Laughing in our faces as they immiserate us and our loved ones. There will be a reckoning
been there, done it, at the Parliament Green vigil for the dead from the reforms, there were no more than thirty people, many sick and disabled people are too frightened to go on them, and the progressives/civil society don't seem to see these deaths, etc as a priority.
equationgirl
Respect my existence or expect my resistance
about the benefit cap, do you mean? there's two links in the OP if you have a look in the quote box. One is to the guardian piece and the other to a pdf government assessment.
Here's a thing to consider: A lot of longterm sick and/or disabled people are unable to march or attend protests, even if they live only a few miles away.
weepiper
I fix the machines that fight climate change
The majority of the people directly affected by cuts like this will find it difficult or impossible to attend because of caring commitments (carers and single parents) illness/disability themselves, or the kind of low-paid work that means you can't afford to take time off to travel to this sort of thing. That's why they pick on us.
There is that, too; I can neither leave VP at home to attend such a protest, nor take him with me.
Even my marching as far as the local Town Hall (all of a short bus ride or a half hour brisk walk away) or attending a Town Hall meeting was a major exercise in logistics, and I'm only a carer.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
The source of the cuts has been de-centralised, making it much harder to effectively target the evildoers. A big protest outside the DWP would be a good spectacle, but easy to brush off.
A mass protest outside of Crapp's residence, on the other hand...
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Our (me and Greebo's) MP is a slick, smarmy fuck who's happy to lie to your face about who/what he supports. He'll do nothing, just as he's done nothing before. The douchebag even gave heavy support to the act that criminalised squatting commercial premises. He's a Labour right Progress-loving excuse for an MP.
FridgeMagnet
Administrator
None of the social prejudice that was built up to support cuts has gone anywhere.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
You say "he could do shit all", but that's not true. While he can't change policy, he could change anti-"scrounger" attitudes in his own constituency, but he doesn't. He's comfortable with middle-class contempt for people who live on council estates (where disabled people are over-represented).
Thats what i meant, I am surprised that you think i wouldn't consider that though. they need more allies.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Quite. It's all still there, waiting to be stoked up again as soon as a scapegoat is required.
and also when (as now), capital needs to increase the labour reserve in order to intensify competition among workersQuite. It's all still there, waiting to be stoked up again as soon as a scapegoat is required.
Brixton Hatter
Home is south London mate
imagine the outcry from MPs if we tried to cap their expenses at 20 grand
I've heard it several times before, from disabled people, from people who are long term sick, and from other carers. I've had it up to here and beyond with being called apathetic when, y'know what? It's so much easier to haul somebody along if they're in a wheelchair than when they use crutches or a walking stick but have limited energy or the pain is going to wipe them out.
I've had it up to here with being looked at as if I've got sooooo much free time while I'm a carer. Hell, I haven't even got time to be unwell. </whinge>
There was, for a time, an alternative, "we can't march". I can't find it now on google, maybe somebody else can.
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