24-hour warning for PIP benefit claimants as consultation ends

Who knows what will happen now, entirely up to Labour to make an announcement whether it’ll continue or not.

Why are they targeting PIP so much when it was like the one benefit to be found to have a 0% rate of fraud?

Not to mention it’s a benefit many *working* people get which *helps them to work* and without it they’d lose the support that it pays for which could then lead to them not being able to work their job anymore which would push them into claiming Universal Credit, and the public hate those claimants just as much.

Ruining the welfare system and making the lives of the vulnerable worse isn’t going to give the poor poor workers earning a measley £100k+ a bigger tax break.

I mean nothing short of a truth and reconciliation style inquiry will ever come close to being enough to undo what the Tories and Labour spent like 20 years doing to disabled people.

If the Tories hadn’t butchered the NHS, people would be able to get the treatment and support they need. Millions waiting for treatment, and the Tories blamed everything on them for not being fit enough to work. It’s fucking outrageous.

Just did it.

I followed [this excellent guide](https://medium.com/@averixus/responding-to-the-uk-governments-pip-consultation-9cf97ea9a5aa) when filling in the consultation, it made it a lot easier on my brain.

I think the hard pill to swallow is that country is severely financially constrained in its ability to support people with additional needs because of significant demographic changes

There are 66 million people in the UK

Of this, 16 million have a disability (24%)

Also note that 55% of the country are of working age

However when you take into account people on unemployment/disability support etc., only 45% of the country working to support it
The other 55% live off what the 45% contribute in terms of tax contribution

The trend of less of the population working has continued over the past 7 decades and will continue to deteriorate. The future perspective therefore is that likely there will come a time when only 40% of the country is working and contributing in terms of positive tax benefit. It would be a dream come true to pay out benefits and support all people with disabilities. However the reality is that our country is buried in debt and we passed crisis point about 10 years ago.

All areas of welfare, support, healthcare, education and business have been ransacked by consecutive governments. It is not a case of people with disabilities being targeted but instead a case of gross efficiency savings (Cuts) in all areas of life.

I appreciate all the complaints that we recite to government about disability cuts but it would be refreshing to hear some solutions for once, be it government or reddit users.