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UK - Under-22s to be excluded from #incapacity benefits
by Mitchell Labiak, March 18, 2025
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'Trapped out of work'
"The reforms come as part of a wider push by Labour to cut spending by reducing the number of people on incapacity benefits, which is forecast to reach a record high by the end of the decade.
"Experts say the increase is due to a combination of worse #MentalHealth since the #pandemic and a higher retirement age meaning some are instead claiming incapacity benefits.
"#Starmer said he is 'not prepared to stand back and do nothing while millions of people – especially young people – who have potential to work and live independent lives, instead become trapped out of work and abandoned by the system'.
"However, #DisabilityRightsUK said that barring under-22s from claiming the health element of universal credit alongside the proposal to increase assessments 'mark dangerous cuts for all #disabled people'.
"The charity added that the package of reforms was 'not about supporting disabled people into work, but making brutal and reckless cuts'."
Read more:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckg8pz1g8q9o
#DisabilityRights #UKPol #BudgetCuts #TaxTheRich #AbolishTheMonarchy
BBC NewsUnder-22s will not get incapacity benefits under welfare shake-upThe move comes as part of an overhaul of the welfare system as the UK's benefits bill rises.
Does Liz Kendall know she's going to be remembered as an evil bitch who killed disabled people?
She goes in the same bin as IDS and Esther McVey and Yvette Cooper and Milksnatcher Thatcher.
People will spit at her in the street.
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Oh, I get it, now: the English 'Labour' party obeys the same naming logic as their 'Public' schools...
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@ScottishGreens Rayner looks like the picture of regret and resignation to failure.
"Hello Darkness my old friend..."
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"Are you going to snap out of it yet?" - EU
"No, we are deluded fucks. See you next time!" - UK
Prove me wrong fuckos, prove me wrong!
“The Musk approach is not something that government should want to go anywhere near associating with itself and I think whoever has been going around briefing about ‘'project chainsaw’ should be retired from the comms efforts.”
The Guardian · Blockers, checkers, bats and chainsaws: don’t talk like Musk, Starmer is warned
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Footage release by Gazan's on the ground showed dead childred, many toddlers and infants, lying motionless on the ground and at medical stations.
Palestinians say they several entire families were killed in these strikes which went on for hours.
I know I post a lot of photos of clouds but honestly, I think we should all spend more time looking to the skies. They speak a rare and valuable truth to us all.
*nods wisely*
GIF
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Starmer is Pro-Trump, Pro-Genocide, and a fucking coward.
When David Lammy is the moral high ground....jfc....
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But Labour want this to happen to us, it's to punish us for not being Tories.
They won't budge, they'll ignore all the stories of suffering, they'll lose the next election and still think they 'did the right thing'*
*(not tax the rich)
"Crackdown"
Like benefit claimants are criminals, interesting use of words there.
Will there every be 'crackdown' on rich tax cheats?
