@[email protected] has moved on Nostr: It now looks like the cuts in PIP payments being balanced with a rise in UC payments ...

It now looks like the cuts in PIP payments being balanced with a rise in UC payments is essentially a transfer of income/benefits from the disabled to the able.... if so, this benefit reorganisation is really pretty grim.

Its good that Universal Credit is to rise, but if that is essentially to be funded by removing benefits from 700,000 disabled people then what we are seeing is immoral.

This is just zero-sum politics of the worst kind!

#benefits #politics

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/may/07/disability-benefit-cuts-to-hit-700000-families-already-in-poverty-dwp-forecasts-show